Staff Engineer, DevSecOps

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Staff Engineer, DevSecOps based in United States.

This role offers the opportunity to shape secure, scalable, and reliable technology supporting critical healthcare program integrity initiatives.
You will contribute to the modernization of a large-scale case management platform used to combat fraud, waste, and abuse across public healthcare programs.
The position combines hands-on software engineering with DevSecOps leadership across cloud infrastructure, automation, security, and delivery practices.
You will design and support backend services, microservices, APIs, CI/CD pipelines, containerized workloads, and AWS infrastructure.
Working within a collaborative, remote-first engineering environment, you will influence architecture, reduce technical debt, and improve operational reliability.
You will also mentor engineers, promote secure engineering practices, and help establish efficient approaches to automation, observability, and continuous improvement.
This is a strong opportunity for an experienced DevSecOps engineer who enjoys solving complex technical challenges while contributing to meaningful healthcare outcomes.

Accountabilities:
- Design, develop, test, deploy, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable software services, with a focus on backend systems, microservices, and APIs.

- Contribute to architecture and design decisions involving cloud architecture, application security, scalability, reliability, and technology selection.

- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines that automate software builds, testing, security validation, deployments, and releases across development and production environments.

- Implement and manage Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or equivalent technologies to provision and maintain AWS infrastructure securely and consistently.

- Develop and operate containerized applications and supporting platforms using Docker and Kubernetes/EKS.

- Integrate DevSecOps practices throughout the software development lifecycle, including automated security testing, vulnerability scanning, secrets management, and compliance controls.

- Deploy and maintain observability capabilities for microservices and APIs, including centralized logging, metrics, distributed tracing, alerting, and performance monitoring.

- Troubleshoot complex application, infrastructure, deployment, and production issues, perform root-cause analysis, and implement preventative improvements.

- Conduct code, architecture, infrastructure, and security reviews to identify vulnerabilities, reliability risks, and opportunities for improvement.

- Participate in vulnerability management, threat assessments, security reviews, and remediation activities across applications, dependencies, containers, and cloud infrastructure.

- Maintain AWS security, compliance, governance, and access-control practices in accordance with organizational policies and applicable standards.

- Create and maintain technical documentation, including architecture diagrams, deployment procedures, runbooks, API documentation, security controls, and operational procedures.

- Collaborate with software engineers, architects, security teams, infrastructure teams, and other stakeholders to establish secure and reliable engineering practices.

- Mentor engineers and promote a culture of automation, security, reliability, continuous improvement, and knowledge sharing.

- Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend tools and practices that improve productivity, security, scalability, and operational efficiency.

- Contribute to technical estimation, prioritization, planning, and delivery of medium-to-large engineering initiatives while reducing technical debt and operational complexity.

Requirements:

- Strong professional experience in DevSecOps, cloud engineering, software engineering, infrastructure automation, and