DevSecOps Security Engineer

I’m helping Scale Nearshoring find a top candidate to join their team full-time for the role of DevSecOps Security Engineer.

You will secure the future of software delivery by automating security in cloud-native pipelines.

Compensation:

Hidden

Location:

Remote (for Mexico, Colombia, Argentina, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Guatemala residents)

Mission of Scale Nearshoring:

"To help U.S. businesses scale their IT teams with high-quality nearshore talent from Latin America while reducing costs and improving efficiency."

What makes you a strong candidate:

• You are proficient in Software security, Software Composition Analysis, Security monitoring, Secret management, Kubernetes, Infrastructure as code (IaC).
• English - Fully fluent

Responsibilities and more:

Position Summary:

• The DevSecOps Security Engineer is responsible for integrating security into the software development lifecycle and CI/CD pipelines to enable secure, scalable, and efficient software delivery.
• This role partners with development, platform, cloud, and security teams to implement security automation, reduce risk, and promote secure-by-design engineering practices across enterprise environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain DevSecOps tools, pipelines, and security controls.
• Integrate security testing into CI/CD processes, including SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets detection, and container security scanning.
• Automate security validation, compliance checks, and policy enforcement within development workflows.
• Partner with development and platform teams to remediate vulnerabilities and improve secure coding practices.
• Secure cloud-native applications, containers, Kubernetes platforms, and Infrastructure-as-Code deployments.
• Develop and maintain security monitoring, metrics, dashboards, and reporting capabilities.
• Support software supply chain security initiatives, including artifact integrity and dependency management.
• Evaluate, implement, and optimize security tooling to improve developer experience and operational efficiency.
• Develop standards, processes, and reference architectures for secure software delivery.

Your potential leader:

• Valeria Caro - Analista de Talento Humano