Staff DevSecOps Engineer: Secure Cloud Automation Lead

Shieldai; San Mateo (CA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Shield AI is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to design and automate security controls for cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and containerized workloads. You will partner with Cybersecurity and Build teams to translate requirements into scalable engineering solutions.

This hands-on role emphasizes repeatable, maintainable security configurations across infrastructure, containers, and platform services, balancing risk with engineering velocity.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of related experience for Senior Engineer or 7+ years for Staff Engineer
• Experience implementing security controls in AWS or another major cloud environment
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated infrastructure provisioning
• Experience securing containerized workloads and building hardened container images
• Experience integrating security tooling into CI/CD or software delivery systems
• Experience with vulnerability management, dependency scanning, container scanning, or configuration validation
• Experience implementing identity, secrets, and access controls in cloud or engineering environments
• Experience automating security or infrastructure tasks using Python, Go, Bash, or similar language

Responsibilities

• Design and implement security controls across AWS infrastructure and platform services
• Build and maintain hardened container images and secure base images for workloads
• Integrate vulnerability, dependency, container, and configuration scanning into software delivery systems
• Automate security and compliance checks to reduce manual review
• Implement secrets management, identity, and access controls across systems
• Build mechanisms for audit evidence, configuration validation, and compliance reporting
• Partner with Cybersecurity and Infosec to translate requirements into scalable controls
• Work with Build and Cloud Engineering to integrate controls without harming reliability

Job description

Shield AI is seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to design and automate security controls for cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and containerized workloads. You will partner with Cybersecurity and Build teams to translate requirements into scalable engineering solutions.

This hands-on role emphasizes repeatable, maintainable security configurations across infrastructure, containers, and platform services, balancing risk with engineering velocity.