DevSecOps Engineer

Motion Recruitment

  • Boston, MA
  • 15 days ago

    Highlights

    Required Qualifications 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, systems engineering, DevOps, SRE, cloud engineering, or a related field. Experience integrating AI assistance into established engineering workflows while maintaining human review, security, testing, and change controls.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationBoston, MA

    Description

    Responsibilities
    • Design and maintain scalable, automated, and secure AWS infrastructure using OpenTofu/Terraform.
    • Support networking, identity, compute, storage, and Kubernetes services.
    • Implement security best practices, including:
      • System hardening
      • Vulnerability and secrets management
      • Least-privilege access
      • Logging and monitoring
      • Secure-by-default patterns
    • Own engineering tickets from requirements through implementation, testing, rollout, documentation, and handoff.
    • Independently manage work, resolve routine blockers, and maintain progress.
    • Work with Kubernetes and container technologies such as Docker and Podman.
    • Use AI-assisted development tools to improve coding, testing, documentation, and problem-solving.
    • Review, test, and validate all AI-generated code and recommendations.
    • Develop automated unit, integration, and validation tests for infrastructure code.
    • Build automation and engineering utilities using Python and Bash.
    • Participate in code reviews, design reviews, troubleshooting, and standards development.
    • Collaborate with technology governance teams on engineering processes, security controls, and audit requirements.
    • Maintain continuity across existing platform initiatives and active workstreams.
    Required Qualifications
    • 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, systems engineering, DevOps, SRE, cloud engineering, or a related field.
    • Significant hands-on AWS experience supporting production workloads and platform services.
    • Advanced OpenTofu/Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
    • Strong Kubernetes deployment, operations, support, and troubleshooting skills.
    • Strong Docker and/or Podman experience.
    • Proficiency in Python and Bash.
    • Experience developing, testing, reviewing, and maintaining production-quality infrastructure code.
    • Practical knowledge of hardening, vulnerability management, least privilege, secrets management, logging, and monitoring.
    • Ability to deliver complex engineering work from requirements through production with limited supervision.
    • Strong self-management, problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.
    • Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, or comparable platforms.
    • Ability to validate AI output through human review, testing, quality gates, and security standards.
    Preferred Qualifications
    • Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, or similar security frameworks.
    • Experience with enterprise CI/CD platforms and secure delivery-pipeline design.
    • Experience with automated Infrastructure as Code testing and validation.
    • Experience integrating AI assistance into established engineering workflows while maintaining human review, security, testing, and change controls.

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