AI Identity Security Engineer

Regions•Hoover, AL

2d•$133,060 - $166,810•Remote

About The Position

Thank you for your interest in a career at Regions. At Regions, we believe associates deserve more than just a job. We believe in offering performance-driven individuals a place where they can build a career --- a place to expect more opportunities. If you are focused on results, dedicated to quality, strength and integrity, and possess the drive to succeed, then we are your employer of choice. At Regions, the Cloud DevSecOps Engineer contributes to the advancement of cloud strategy. The primary focus of this role includes developing, communicating, and implementing robust and secure cloud continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. This role works closely with stakeholders to create fully automated pipelines which support current DevSecOps best practices. This position is currently offsite, preferably close to a Regions office within our retail branch footprint (click here to see our locations). Associates will work from their home primarily and may be expected to go on site for meetings or other events as needed. Regions will not sponsor applicants for work visas for this position at this time. Applicants for this position must currently be authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED and eight (8) years of related post-secondary education and/or experience in Information Security or Information Technology
Proficient in python programming language
Understanding of Shift Left principles and facilitation technologies

Nice To Haves

Four (4) years of relevant DevSecOps experience
AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification
Experience in building / deploying cloud native applications – OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Experience in observing real-time metrics in the pipeline and deployment strategies – Blue/Green, Canary Deployment
Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies
Experience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault
Familiar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline to determine weak links and suggest solutions.
Familiar with testing tools used to facilitate automation and integration of the tools into CI/CD pipelines
Must be comfortable in developing pipelines as code using yaml specs, ansible playbooks
Excellent communication skills and willing to mentor developers and other team members in the art of DevSecOps
Excellent knowledge of Cloud infrastructure, networking, services, and cloud architectural patterns; specifically, compute using virtual machines, managed infrastructure, containers, serverless, as well as database services, security services, and application services
Working Knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, ServiceNow a big plus
Strong background in identity governance automation, IAM, or DevSecOps, with hands-on engineering experience; familiarity with AI/ML systems, agentic architectures, and their associated security risks.

Responsibilities

Partners with other engineers and information technology staff to orchestrate code builds, quality and security analyses, deployments, and automated testing through CI/CD release candidacy pipelines
Articulates business needs and translate them into technology solutions
Models release candidate CI/CD pipelines as a mechanism to communicate the states and steps necessary to determine a release candidate for each application and service
Designs and develops fully autonomous CI/CD pipelines which facilitate cloud deployments which includes automation of all infrastructure, services and application build and deployment
Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices to include automated tests and infrastructure tests
Researches new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectiveness
Implements highly scalable CI/CD platforms to support high change volumes and fast feedback
Automates operational activities and tasks
Responds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents related to CI/CD platforms
Builds tools which reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiences
Assists in troubleshooting of production issues and ensure pipeline and infrastructure produces clear documentation and metrics which enables Root Cause Analysis
Develops and tests – Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts and establish immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the past
Works with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Software Delivery, and Quality Assurance to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation
Ensures compliance with risk management programs, rules and regulations, and cybersecurity practices; identifies opportunities for and supports process improvements; applies disciplined change management practices
Design and enforce scalable authorization models for AI agents and non-human identities across AWS and multi-cloud, enabling secure, low-friction deployment at scale
Define identity patterns for agents and workloads (ephemeral credentials, token-based auth, delegation, scoped permissions) across their full lifecycle
Build automated guardrails for provisioning, privilege management, and runtime access—leveraging CI/CD pipelines, APIs, and reusable, idempotent frameworks
Establish enterprise standards for non-human identity governance, including lifecycle controls, auditability, and policy enforcement across hybrid environments
Partner with platform and engineering teams to embed identity controls into agent frameworks, SDKs, and deployment pipelines
Apply strong engineering practices (Python, Java, PowerShell) to integrate systems via REST APIs and modern auth protocols (OAuth, OIDC, SAML, SCIM), with hands-on experience in AWS IAM, Azure/Entra ID, and SailPoint integrations