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Senior / Staff DevSecOps Engineer

Arlington, VA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-04-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build and own the security infrastructure for engineering systems, spanning runtime security, access control, secrets management, compliance, and CI/CD hardening to enable fast, secure development.

Role type

Senior/Staff DevSecOps Engineer (Security Infrastructure)

Builds

Secure-by-default foundations, tooling, and automation for cloud/container environments and CI/CD pipelines.

Domain

Cybersecurity, Cloud Infrastructure, DevSecOps

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

DevSecOps, AWS security services (IAM, SCPs, Organizations, GuardDuty, Security Hub, CloudTrail), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), Policy-as-code (OPA, Checkov, tfsec), Secrets management, CI/CD pipeline hardening, Container security, Incident response, Compliance program management

Preferred skills

Growing a DSO/security engineering function, Observability tooling (LGTM stack), Configuration management (Ansible), Developer-facing security platforms

Technologies

AWS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, GitHub Actions, Trivy, Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir, PagerDuty, Go, TypeScript, Node, React, Python

Responsibilities

Own runtime security and vulnerability management across cloud and container environments; Design and enforce identity and access management (IAM) across AWS and internal systems; Own secrets and credentials management; Lead security incident response; Manage AWS Organization structure, account boundaries, SCPs, and guardrails; Harden and maintain CI/CD pipelines; Drive compliance efforts; Build and maintain secure-by-default templates; Reduce friction through automation; Produce lightweight, practical security guidance; Shape the direction of the DSO function as it scales.

Seniority

Senior/Staff, hands-on IC with team-building responsibilities

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