Senior DevSecOps Engineer: PKI & CI/CD Automation Lead

Technology Partners; Wildwood (MO); On-site; USD 87,000 - 124,000; Full time

Job summary

Technology Partners is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to join a four-person pod and automate certificate lifecycles while building secure, production-ready automation across diverse environments.

You will lead CI/CD development, implement zero-downtime rotations, and drive incident triage with root-cause analysis for automation and infrastructure issues. The role emphasizes knowledge transfer to client engineers and ongoing reliability improvements.

Qualifications

• 3-5+ years of DevSecOps and platform engineering experience with a focus on automation, CI/CD, and infrastructure as code.
• Hands-on experience with Jenkins, Ansible, Chef, Artifactory, and SonarQube.
• Strong working knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP, with containerization and Kubernetes expertise.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems, load balancing, capacity planning, and observability tools like Splunk, Dynatrace, or AppDynamics.
• Solid experience managing PKI, certificate lifecycle, Venafi/ECMS, OpenSSL, and related security protocols.
• Knowledge of networking protocols including TCP/IP, proxies, F5 load balancers, and FTP/SFTP.
• Programming and scripting skills in Python, Shell, PowerShell, Groovy, or Go.
• Familiarity with databases such as Postgres, Cassandra, or Redis, and SQL proficiency.
• Operational governance familiarity within ITIL framework.
• High School Diploma or equivalent; relevant certifications are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain automation workflows for certificate issuance, renewal, rotation, and revocation across multiple environments.
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines and configuration-as-code to deploy automation consistently across teams.
• Implement zero-downtime rotation strategies, self-healing behaviors, and monitoring/alerting systems to proactively surface issues.
• Lead incident triage and conduct root-cause analysis for automation and infrastructure issues.
• Adapt automation patterns to environment-specific realities and document solutions for knowledge transfer.
• Collaborate with the client’s team to improve reliability, security, and operational efficiency.
• Support security-hardening practices and PKI management, including Venafi, ECMS, and OpenSSL.
• Troubleshoot and resolve issues related to distributed systems, load balancing, networking, and cloud/infrastructure environments.

Skills

DevSecOps

Automation

CI/CD

Python

Shell

Education

High School Diploma or equivalent

Tools

Jenkins

Ansible

Chef

Artifactory

SonarQube

Kubernetes

Docker

Venafi

ECMS

OpenSSL

Splunk

Dynatrace

AppDynamics

Job description

Technology Partners is seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to join a four-person pod and automate certificate lifecycles while building secure, production-ready automation across diverse environments.

You will lead CI/CD development, implement zero-downtime rotations, and drive incident triage with root-cause analysis for automation and infrastructure issues. The role emphasizes knowledge transfer to client engineers and ongoing reliability improvements.