Senior Platform Security Engineer | DevSecOps & AWS

Sherpa 6, Inc.; Maryland; Hybrid; USD 105,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision benefits

Retirement savings plan

Generous PTO policy

Job summary

Sherpa 6, Inc. is seeking a Platform Security Engineer to advance secure cloud platforms for mission-critical systems. You will own DevSecOps strategy, automate cloud deployments, and mentor teams across engineering disciplines.

You will design secure architectures, implement IaC, and enforce strong access controls while ensuring release readiness and regulatory compliance. This role requires active security expertise and collaboration with a customer-driven team.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• 5+ years in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, build engineering, or similar.
• Scripting proficiency in Python, Bash, PowerShell, or Groovy.
• Hands-on AWS cloud engineering (compute, networking, IAM, storage) with IaC (Pulumi/Terraform).
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with security gates (SAST, dependencies, containers).
• Ability to implement repeatable, auditable security controls (NIST, DoW ATO).
• Strong networking fundamentals and RBAC/least-privilege access.
• Continuous security monitoring: logging, vulnerability scanning, anomaly detection.

Responsibilities

• Support design and implementation of AWS-based solutions.
• Own DevSecOps strategy, tooling, automation, and cloud deployment approaches.
• Contribute hands-on while mentoring solution development.
• Collaborate to validate release readiness including security gates.
• Create and maintain release docs, schedules, rollback plans, release notes.
• Identify improvements for release efficiency, reliability, and scalability.
• Troubleshoot build, pipeline, and deployment issues; monitor release metrics.
• Develop IaC to deploy solutions to cloud environments.
• Guide architectural evolution with customer teams.
• Research, propose, and validate customer-tailored solutions.
• Communicate status and recommendations; own DevSecOps deliverables.

Skills

Python

Bash

PowerShell

Groovy

DevOps

Cloud Engineering

Networking fundamentals

RBAC / least-privilege

SRE / CI-CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Pulumi

Terraform

Job description

Sherpa 6, Inc. is seeking a Platform Security Engineer to advance secure cloud platforms for mission-critical systems. You will own DevSecOps strategy, automate cloud deployments, and mentor teams across engineering disciplines.

You will design secure architectures, implement IaC, and enforce strong access controls while ensuring release readiness and regulatory compliance. This role requires active security expertise and collaboration with a customer-driven team.