Sr Devops Security Engineer

HRB; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior DevOps Security Engineer to lead the automation of development pipelines across multiple cloud platforms. This role is pivotal in transforming Infrastructure Services into a highly efficient and automated platform. The ideal candidate will possess extensive experience in managing cloud infrastructures, automating deployments, and ensuring compliance with security standards. If you're passionate about technology and eager to drive innovation in a collaborative environment, this position offers a unique opportunity to make a significant impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in Agile DevOps environments with cloud and virtualized server management.
• Experience with security practices and compliance (SOC1, SOC2).

Responsibilities

• Automate release deployments and optimize for scalability and security.
• Design and implement highly available infrastructures and monitoring services.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud Management

Automation

Linux Infrastructure

PowerShell

Release Pipelines

Networking Protocols

Security Practices

Agile Development

Interpersonal Skills

Tools

AWS EC2

AWS S3

Docker

Jenkins

GitHub

Job description

Position Overview

The Senior DevOps Security Engineer plays a key role in automating our multiple development pipelines that flow into AWS, Azure, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud. This position will be responsible for changing the delivery of Infrastructure Services to a highly automated and efficient platform.

The ideal candidate is driven to learn and teach others and understands software development (Dev), but enjoys all the things necessary to improve deploying, monitoring, and operating production services (Ops).

Core Responsibilities

• Provide thought and subject matter leadership in DevOps, including managing multi-cloud infrastructure, advising development managers in structuring and sizing their plans, and raise red flags on faulty models or assumptions to prevent misguided implementation.
• Provides full stack tier 1-3 technical support to technology teams and other business units
• Introduces and integrates new technologies into existing computing environments.
• Automate release deployments across all stacks and optimize for scalability, efficiency, and security.
• Develop effective tooling to accelerate deploy and release management.
• Analyzes system logs and identifies potential issues with computer systems.
• Develop infrastructure standards and best practices with a proclivity towards automation.
• Designs and implements server-based solutions in a DevOps/high-availability environment.
• Configure, maintain and identify dependencies, potential conflicts, documenting process and tracking deployment schedules.
• Manage the configuration and up-time of all environments and micro-services.
• Design, implement, and maintain highly available infrastructures.
• Build and implement monitoring and logging services.
• Work with application engineering to cultivate operational standards.
• Continually manage all cloud assets to ensure right-sized and minimize sprawl.
• Ensures all processes and technology meet all required SOC1, SOC2 compliance (at a security minimum) and delivers evidence and artifacts during audits.
• Design and implement a DR / remote service strategy.
• Performs routine audits of systems and software, as well as capacity planning and analysis.
• Interfaces with staff assigned to applications development to maintain familiarity with application development.
• Work with Infrastructure and Operations for the implementation of ITIL concepts and tools.
• Remain current on broad technology infrastructure changes in the industry, applying to cost-savings or competitive advantage.
• Intergrade with developers and configuration management team to implement best practices.
• Cross collaboration with development team in bug management and feature release and git branching strategy.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Key Qualifications

• 5+ years working in an Agile dev environment as a member of a DevOps team.
• 5+ years’ experience managing/monitoring cloud and virtualized servers for optimal performance while working in a Platform as a Service (PaaS) environment.
• Direct experience engineering a major DevOps implementation.
• Experience with cloud tools EC2, RDS, S3, Directory Services, Route53, ELB, CloudFront, AMI
• Hands-on experience building automated Linux infrastructure on cloud platforms.
• Strong experience with release pipelines, including blue/green deployments.
• PowerShell, Continuous Delivery pipeline – Docker, Jenkins, GitHub
• Knowledge of security practices, networking protocols, firewalls, SOC compliance, etc.
• Long-term thinker who is committed to excellence, teamwork, and the professional growth of their peers.
• Interpersonal skills to include effective verbal and written communication with staff, key leaders and other departments.