Senior DevSecOps Engineer: Cloud Security & IaC Specialist

Motion Recruitment; Des Moines (IA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Part time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k)

Job summary

Motion Recruitment in Des Moines, IA seeks a Technology and Data Engineer 5 for a hybrid, 6-month contract role focused on strengthening cloud Infrastructure as Code security. You will embed automated controls into dev and deployment pipelines, work with platform teams, and enhance governance and compliance across enterprise software delivery.

Required experience includes 7+ years in engineering and 8+ years in AppSec/DevSecOps with Terraform and Kubernetes.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through work/education.
• 8+ years in AppSec, Cloud Security, or DevSecOps with hands-on Terraform and Kubernetes security experience.
• Practical experience operating Wiz (or similar) for IaC in CI/CD environments.
• Policy as Code skills using OPA/Rego or equivalent rule tuning experience.
• Strong CI/CD knowledge and Git workflow experience.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to support development teams and drive remediation efforts.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and tune custom IaC rules in Rego/OPA to extend security coverage beyond built-in capabilities.
• Build automated regression tests using Terraform plans, Kubernetes manifests, and sample repositories.
• Perform pipeline health checks and investigate failed security scans.
• Publish security artifacts for traceability and compliance reporting.
• Deploy and maintain Wiz DevOps extensions and scanning integrations.
• Support GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, and Jenkins security workflows.

Skills

CI/CD knowledge

Git workflow

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

Kubernetes

VS Code

Jira

Job description

Motion Recruitment in Des Moines, IA seeks a Technology and Data Engineer 5 for a hybrid, 6-month contract role focused on strengthening cloud Infrastructure as Code security. You will embed automated controls into dev and deployment pipelines, work with platform teams, and enhance governance and compliance across enterprise software delivery.

Required experience includes 7+ years in engineering and 8+ years in AppSec/DevSecOps with Terraform and Kubernetes.