Senior DevSecOps Engineer: Cloud Security & Automation

Vets Hired; Vienna (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Vets Hired is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to design, implement, secure, and operate cloud-native infrastructure and deployment platforms for modern applications and machine learning workloads. You will design AWS infrastructure with Terraform, run Kubernetes clusters (EKS/ECS), and manage containerized apps with Docker and Helm.

You’ll develop CI/CD pipelines and GitOps with Git and Argo CD, enforce SSO/IAM/RBAC, and apply Zero Trust and defense-in-depth principles to secure the software

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, Cloud, or Platform Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS and Terraform.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and Amazon EKS.
• Experience with ECS, Docker, and Helm.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of Git, Argo CD, and Git Ops.
• Hands-on experience with SSO, IAM, Kubernetes RBAC, and access control.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust and cloud security principles.
• Strong AWS networking knowledge.
• Familiarity with microservice and cloud-native architectures.
• Strong automation, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain AWS cloud infrastructure using Terraform and Infrastructure as Code.
• Build, deploy, and manage containerized applications using Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, ECS, Docker, and Helm.
• Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using Git and Argo CD.
• Implement secure authentication and authorization using SSO, IAM, RBAC.
• Apply Zero Trust, least-privilege, defense-in-depth, and secure-by-design principles.
• Integrate security controls into cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and container environments.
• Implement vulnerability and container security scanning.
• Design and troubleshoot AWS networking, including VPCs, subnets, routing, security groups, load balancers, DNS, and TLS.
• Support deployment and operation of microservice-based and cloud-native applications.
• Troubleshoot cloud, Kubernetes, networking, CI/CD, and application deployment issues.
• Automate infrastructure, security, and operational processes.
• Establish DevSecOps, cloud infrastructure, security, and operational best practices.
• Support monitoring, logging, observability, and infrastructure reliability.
• Apply security standards and best practices throughout the software development and deployment lifecycle.

Skills

AWS Expertise

Terraform

Kubernetes

Argo CD

GitOps

CI/CD Pipelines

IAM

RBAC

SSO

Zero Trust

Cloud Security

Automation

Troubleshooting

Networking

Tools

AWS

Terraform

Kubernetes

EKS

ECS

Docker

Helm

Git

Argo CD

Job description

Vets Hired is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to design, implement, secure, and operate cloud-native infrastructure and deployment platforms for modern applications and machine learning workloads. You will design AWS infrastructure with Terraform, run Kubernetes clusters (EKS/ECS), and manage containerized apps with Docker and Helm.

You’ll develop CI/CD pipelines and GitOps with Git and Argo CD, enforce SSO/IAM/RBAC, and apply Zero Trust and defense-in-depth principles to secure the software