Senior Tech & Data Security Engineer - IaC/DevSecOps

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Raleigh (NC); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Paid Time Off (PTO)

401(k)

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking a Technology and Data Engineer 5 for a hybrid role in Raleigh, North Carolina. The position focuses on strengthening IaC security across cloud environments and enabling secure software delivery at scale.

The ideal candidate will collaborate across security, DevOps, and engineering, designing practical solutions to improve risk management while accelerating development velocity and ensuring governance compliance.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated by relevant work.
• 8+ years in AppSec/Cloud Security/DevSecOps with Terraform and Kubernetes security experience.
• Practical experience operating Wiz for IaC in CI/CD environments.
• Policy as Code skills using OPA/Rego or equivalent rule tuning.
• Strong CI/CD knowledge and Git workflow experience.
• Excellent communication skills to support development teams and remediation efforts.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and tune custom IaC rules in Rego/OPA to extend security coverage.
• Build automated regression tests using Terraform plans and Kubernetes manifests.
• Perform pipeline health checks and investigate failed security scans.
• Monitor platform availability and scanning effectiveness to minimize disruption.
• 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.
• Deliver remediation guidance and train developers on secure practices.

Skills

Engineering experience

AppSec / Cloud Security / DevSecOps

Terraform security

Kubernetes security

Wiz IaC CI/CD

Policy as Code (OPA/Rego)

CI/CD knowledge

Git workflow

Communication skills

Scripting (Python Bash PowerShell)

Education

Cloud certifications (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Terraform Associate

CKA / CKAD certifications

Tools

Wiz

Terraform

Kubernetes

VS Code

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC is seeking a Technology and Data Engineer 5 for a hybrid role in Raleigh, North Carolina. The position focuses on strengthening IaC security across cloud environments and enabling secure software delivery at scale.

The ideal candidate will collaborate across security, DevOps, and engineering, designing practical solutions to improve risk management while accelerating development velocity and ensuring governance compliance.