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.