Staff DevSecOps Engineer: Secure Delivery & Automation Leader

CVS Health; Connecticut; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 261,000; Full time

Job summary

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Engineer, DevSecOps Security Engineering, to lead security implementation, automation and migration across Health 100 initiatives. You will drive secure delivery, standardize tooling, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to reduce vulnerabilities and improve release readiness.

This senior role requires expertise in application security, DevSecOps, and scalable engineering patterns, with hands-on experience in cloud security and container environments.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in DevSecOps, application security engineering, platform security or software engineering.
• Experience integrating SAST, SCA, secrets detection, container scanning, IaC scanning into CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience leading security implementations or tool migrations in large or complex engineering environments.
• Proficiency in public cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure or GCP, plus cloud and network security concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead DevSecOps implementation initiatives aligned to security goals and engineering priorities.
• Own technical planning, architecture, delivery, issue resolution and implementation outcomes.
• Coordinate across application, platform and security teams to remove blockers and sustain adoption.
• Design, implement and improve CI/CD security controls, pipeline enforcement and automated scanning workflows.
• Partner with development and platform teams to embed security controls without delivery friction.
• Build self-service security solutions and reusable automation to reduce manual intervention.
• Automate secret-detection and CI/CD security workflows, including Gitleaks or comparable capabilities.
• Lead security-tool migrations, including transitions such as Checkmarx to Snyk, from design through stable production operation.

Skills

DevSecOps

Application security

Cloud security

Scripting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Snyk

Checkmarx

Gitleaks

Job description

CVS Health is seeking a Staff Engineer, DevSecOps Security Engineering, to lead security implementation, automation and migration across Health 100 initiatives. You will drive secure delivery, standardize tooling, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to reduce vulnerabilities and improve release readiness.

This senior role requires expertise in application security, DevSecOps, and scalable engineering patterns, with hands-on experience in cloud security and container environments.