Cloud DevSecOps Engineer - Amazon Connect

Regions•Hoover, AL

22h•$133,060 - $166,810•Onsite

About The Position

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.

Requirements

High School Diploma or GED and eight (8) years of related post-secondary education and/or experience in Information Security or Information Technology

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
Proficient in python programming language
Understanding of Shift Left principles and facilitation technologies
Working Knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, ServiceNow a big plus
Extensive experience designing, implementing, and supporting AWS cloud platforms, leveraging Well-Architected Framework principles, cloud-native architectures, and multi-account environments.
Strong expertise in AWS networking, compute, storage, databases, containers, serverless technologies, security, and hybrid connectivity solutions.
Proven success building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, DevOps platforms, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK), and deployment automation frameworks.
Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, EKS, microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and enterprise integration patterns.
Skilled in observability, monitoring, incident management, troubleshooting, and platform reliability using tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, and New Relic.
Strong background in cloud security, DevSecOps, IAM, Zero Trust, compliance, governance, and risk management frameworks.
Effective technical leader with experience driving cloud transformation initiatives, mentoring engineers, and partnering across Architecture, Security, Development, QA, and Operations teams.
Preferred certifications include AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, CKA/CKAD, and Terraform Associate.
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional (Highly Preferred)
AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
AWS Specialty Certifications (Preferred)
Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) / Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
HashiCorp Terraform Associate
AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional (Preferred)
Certified Jenkins Engineer or equivalent CI/CD certification (Preferred)

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