Senior DevSecOps Engineer

We are looking for a hands-on Senior DevSecOps Engineer to help build secure, scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, and CI/CD pipelines. You will work closely with engineering and platform teams to integrate security into the software delivery lifecycle and make secure-by-default practices easy to adopt.

The role combines DevSecOps, cloud security, infrastructure automation, Kubernetes security, and software supply-chain security , with a strong focus on practical engineering and automation.

Project Details

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Start: ASAP

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Project duration: 12 months+

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Locations: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico

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Working hours: EST business hours

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English: B2+

Responsibilities

- Integrate security into cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and developer self-service workflows.

- Design and implement secure-by-default patterns for IAM, workload identity, secrets management, network security, infrastructure as code, application deployment, and workload protection.

- Assess the current security landscape, identify gaps and risks, and establish scalable security practices within DevOps and platform teams.

- Build automated, risk-based security guardrails across source control, container builds, infrastructure changes, and application deployments using policy-as-code.

- Strengthen Kubernetes, container, and software supply-chain security, including cluster configuration, workload isolation, ingress, admission controls, runtime protection, dependency management, SBOMs, artifact signing, and build provenance.

- Partner with engineering teams to identify, prioritize, and remediate vulnerabilities and security misconfigurations across cloud, Kubernetes, and CI/CD environments.

- Support security incident response across infrastructure and delivery systems, including investigation, containment, recovery, and post-incident improvements.

- Translate security, regulatory, and audit requirements into practical and maintainable engineering controls.

- Create automation, documentation, runbooks, and security standards, while mentoring engineers on DevSecOps best practices.

Requirements

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5+ years of hands-on experience in DevSecOps, DevOps, Cloud Security, Platform Engineering, or a related role, with significant responsibility for security engineering and automation.

- Strong hands-on experience securing AWS or Google Cloud , including IAM, workload identity, networking, encryption, logging, and cloud-native security controls.

- Deep experience operating and securing Kubernetes and containerized workloads , including managed platforms such as Amazon EKS or Google Kubernetes Engine.

- Strong hands-on experience with Terraform , including reusable modules, dependency management, policy enforcement, and safe change management.

- Strong understanding of CI/CD and release engineering , including artifact security, deployment controls, approval gates, trusted builds, and rollback strategies.

- Experience implementing automated security controls such as vulnerability and dependency scanning, container image scanning, secrets detection, policy-as-code, infrastructure scanning, cloud configuration assessment, and software supply-chain security.

- Strong scripting or programming skills for automation, integrations, tooling, and operational problem-solving.

- Experience working in regulated or audited environments and translating frameworks such as HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS, HITRUST, or SOX into engineering controls.

- Strong communication and technical leadership skills, with the ability to balance security, reliability, developer experience, maintainability, and delivery speed.

- English: B2+ or higher.

Nice to have

- Experience with Terraform Cloud , including workspace management, policy controls, remote execution, and state governance.

- Experience with GitOps and delivery platforms such as Argo CD, Harness, or Codefresh.

- Experience with observability and incident-manage