Cloud DevSecOps Engineer
Location: Birmingham, AL
Job Type: Contract-to-Hire, no C2C (6 months)
Pay Range: $70-75 per hour
Benefits: 40 hours paid time off, medical insurance contributions, dental vision and our 401k retirement savings plan
Position Overview
We are seeking an experienced Cloud DevSecOps Engineer to help drive cloud adoption and automation initiatives by designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, scalable CI/CD pipelines. This individual will play a key role in enabling cloud-native application delivery, infrastructure automation, and DevSecOps best practices across the organization.
The ideal candidate will have a strong background in cloud technologies, infrastructure as code, automation, and security-first software delivery practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain secure, automated CI/CD pipelines for cloud-based applications and infrastructure.
- Partner with engineering, security, architecture, QA, and technology teams to implement DevSecOps best practices.
- Automate code builds, testing, security scanning, deployments, and infrastructure provisioning.
- Create and manage infrastructure-as-code solutions using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, and Packer.
- Develop deployment automation strategies, including Blue/Green and Canary deployments.
- Monitor pipeline performance, troubleshoot issues, and improve platform reliability and scalability.
- Implement automated testing and validation processes throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
- Build tools and processes that improve operational efficiency and reduce manual effort.
- Support root cause analysis efforts through clear documentation, metrics, and monitoring solutions.
- Research and implement emerging technologies to enhance cloud delivery capabilities.
- Collaborate with teams to enable secure cloud adoption through automation and standardized processes.
- Mentor developers and engineering teams on DevSecOps methodologies and tooling.
Required Qualifications
- High School Diploma or GED.
- 8+ years of combined post-secondary education and/or professional experience in Information Technology, Information Security, DevOps, or related fields.
- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines in cloud environments.
- Strong understanding of infrastructure automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Experience with YAML-based pipeline development.
- Proficiency in Python programming.
- Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, security, and architecture principles.
Preferred Qualifications
- 4+ years of DevSecOps experience.
- AWS DevOps Certification and/or Azure DevOps Certification.
- Experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms.
- Experience deploying cloud-native applications using Kubernetes platforms such as OpenShift or Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).
- Experience with deployment strategies such as Blue/Green and Canary deployments.
- Experience integrating security controls and testing tools into CI/CD pipelines.
- Familiarity with HashiCorp Vault or other secrets management solutions.
- Knowledge of Chaos Engineering principles and reliability testing approaches.
- Experience developing immutable infrastructure practices.
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