Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Capital Group•New York, NY

10d•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior DevSecOps Engineer within the Application Security team, you’ll support, secure, manage and deploy solutions that secure the software delivery lifecycle for enterprise applications. This is a highly technical role, so you will need a strong understanding of automation, CI/CD infrastructure, software development, and cloud services. Knowledge of information security and application security tools is highly desirable. The DevSecOps engineer supports the security of continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) initiatives and is an integrated team member working with software developers, system engineers, cybersecurity engineers and systems administrators. The role is security-focused and helps CI/CD pipelines deliver secure software in a scalable manner while showing developer empathy and engineering excellence such as obsession with security tool output quality, false positive removal, using data / metrics to improve tools that integrate into the CI/CD pipeline.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field and/or at least 7+ years’ experience in information technology, information security administration or security operations.
Experience with agile workflows, including Scrum and Kanban.
Hands-on experience of containers (e.g., Docker) and container orchestration (e.g., Docker Swarm, Kubernetes).
Understanding DevSecOps tooling, including Terraform, Ansible, and CI/CD Pipelines.
Experience with operations and security across Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Ability to obtain and maintain technical team and business support to influence a collaborative effort to reduce attack surface while performing rapid, continuous implementation.
Proficient in designing, building, and deploying complex engineering solutions
Expert Programming knowledge in Python.
Excellence in communicating business risk and remediation requirements from assessments.

Nice To Haves

Other Languages a bonus.
Interested in Agentic software development, including developing agentic Skills to accelerate feature requests and improve the quality of solutions delivered.

Responsibilities

Simplify automation that applies security inter-workings with CI/CD pipelines.
Work to consistently learn and share advanced skills and practices that promote team excellence.
Build relationships with developers, stakeholders and scrum master’s to incorporate security principles into engineering design and deployments.
Supervise testing and validation in application security controls across projects.
Oversee implementation of defensive practices and countermeasures across infrastructure and applications.
Draft and uphold CI/CD security strategy and practices in tandem with other technical team leads.
Serve as a point of contact for security-based escalations and remain tightly involved through resolution.
Build services and tools to enable developers and engineers to easily use security components produced by Application Security team members.
Support the ability to “shift left” and incorporate security early on and throughout the development lifecycle.
Communicate vulnerability results in a manner understood by technical and non-technical business units based on risk tolerance and threat to the business, and gain support through influential messaging.
Leverage Vulnerability database sources to understand the weakness, probability and remediation options supplied by vendors as well as workarounds.
Join forces and provision security principles in architecture, infrastructure and code.
Regularly research and learn new tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs) in public and closed forums, and work with colleagues to assess risk and implement/validate controls as necessary through the CI/CD pipeline.
Enrich DevOps architecture with security standards and best practices.
Partner with teams to define key performance indicators (KPIs) and metrics across business units.