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 • Start: ASAP • Project duration: 12 months+ • Locations: Argentina, Brazil, Mexico • Working hours: EST business hours • 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 • 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-management platforms such as Datadog, Groundcover, or PagerDuty. • Experience with cloud security posture management, vulnerability management, workload/runtime protection, and endpoint security platforms such as Qualys, CrowdStrike, Prisma Cloud, Lacework, Wiz, or comparable tools.