Senior DevSecOps Engineer
*This is a hybrid position with 2 days/week onsite
Description:
- The client requires the services of a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to act as consultant with the clients’ Solutions Management group.
Responsibilities:
- Hands-on security automation for AWS delivery.
- Build secure-by-default CDK constructs and CloudFormation templates wire them into CI/CD and enforce compliance checks that map to CJIS and NIST.
- Azure support is a future consideration, not a core day-one duty.
Scope boundaries:
- Does not own enterprise AWS Organizations or SCP operations.
- Designs and builds reference guardrails and enforcement patterns that can be deployed by enterprise teams.
- Focuses on preventive controls and compliance automation not incident response.
What you will deliver:
- Pipeline security templates in GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps with SAST SCA IaC container and secret scanning gates.
- Compliance as code in reference accounts: AWS Config rules and Security Hub standards aligned to CJIS and NIST 800-53 with exceptions workflow documented.
- IaC reference modules using AWS CDK andn CloudFormation for IAM least privilege KMS Secrets Manager logging and network baselines Terraform equivalents provided where teams require them.
- Evidence exports tying checks to control IDs andn producing auditor-ready artifacts.
Ongoing:
- Harden CDK/CFT modules and pipeline templates as compliance needs evolve.
- Coach pilot teams to adopt templates.
- Raise gaps to enterprise teams for org-level enforcement.
Day-to-day responsibilities:
- Author and maintain AWS CDK constructs and CloudFormation templates provide Terraform versions as secondary.
- Implement AWS Config conformance Security Hub standards and GuardDuty routing in reference accounts.
- Wire scanning in CI/CD for app code containers and IaC.
- Create reusable GitHub/Azure DevOps templates with enforcement gates and exception handling.
- Generate posture and evidence reports mapped to CJIS and NIST controls.
Required Skills/Knowledge/Experience:
- 5+ years AWS security automation and DevOps, Required 5 Years
- Strong with AWS CDK and CloudFormation; working proficiency in Terraform, Required
- CI/CD authoring in GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, Required
- Proficient in Python and Bash, with PowerShell for Windows automation, Required
- Able to read Java and C# to integrate and tune SAST/SCA, Required
- Practical knowledge of CJIS and NIST 800-53 control families and how to automate checks and evidence, Required
- EKS/ECS/Lambda hardening patterns, Nice to have
- OPA/Conftest, Checkov, Trivy, Inspector, CodeQL or equivalent, Nice to have
- Basic Azure security automation for future phases, Nice to have
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