Plan A Technologies is seeking a skilled DevSecOps Engineer with 5+ years of experience to manage and optimize infrastructure, security compliance, and operational excellence across multiple AWS environments. The role involves optimizing CI/CD pipelines, ensuring a strong security posture, supporting cloud migrations, and maintaining resilient infrastructure aligned with NIST 800-53 Rev 5 and CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v3.0.0. A key responsibility is maintaining a 90% SLA Security Score for mission-critical systems.

Must Have

• 5+ years of experience in DevSecOps, Cloud Engineering, or Security Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS environments and AWS security services.
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, CDK).
• Strong understanding of security frameworks, especially NIST 800-53 Rev 5 and CIS AWS Foundations.
• Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with monitoring, logging, and event management tools (CloudWatch, ELK, Datadog, etc.).
• Strong knowledge in vulnerability management, patching, and cloud security hardening.
• Excellent troubleshooting and incident-response skills.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Solid written and verbal English skills.
• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience.
• Ability to maintain a 90% SLA Security Score.

Good to Have

• Experience with large-scale, multi-environment AWS deployments.
• Knowledge of compliance audits, documentation standards, and reporting.
• Background in network engineering or SDLC process optimization.
• Experience supporting data science, automation, or SRE-focused initiatives.
• Familiarity with scripting (Python, Bash) and containerization (Docker, EKS/ECS).

Perks & Benefits

• Generous vacation schedule
• Brand New Laptop
• Other goodies
• Excellent team of supportive engineers and project managers
• Upbeat work environment

JOB OVERVIEW

Plan A Technologies is looking for a highly skilled DevSecOps Engineer to support infrastructure implementation, security compliance, and end-to-end operational excellence across multiple AWS environments. This role will focus on optimizing CI/CD pipelines, ensuring strong security posture, enabling smooth migrations and integrations, and maintaining resilient and compliant cloud infrastructure aligned with frameworks such as NIST 800-53 Rev 5 and CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v3.0.0.

A key responsibility includes maintaining a 90% SLA Security Score while supporting mission-critical systems and environments.

Please note: you must have at least 5+ years of experience in DevSecOps to be considered for this role.

JOB RESPONSIBILITY

Infrastructure, Cloud & Environment Management:

• Implement, manage, and optimize infrastructure across multiple environments including AWS S3, Production, UAT, Dev, DevOps FMS, Prod, and Branches.
• Support cloud migrations, integrations, and environment provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Maintain and enhance critical infrastructure for: FMS, Client's Network Infrastructure, MCA Funds, Site Reliability operations, Automation platforms, Data Science DevOps (Red Support), Sandboxes, Databases, and AWS Infrastructure

Security, Compliance & Monitoring:

• Ensure adherence to security standards, maintaining at least a 90% SLA Security Score across environments.
• Implement, monitor, and optimize cloud security services including AWS CloudWatch, GuardDuty, AWS Config, and related compliance tooling.
• Support vulnerability management, patching cycles, and continuous improvement of security posture.
• Maintain compliance with industry standards such as NIST 800-53 Rev 5 and CIS AWS Foundations Benchmark v3.0.0.
• Provide disaster recovery planning, testing, and documentation for cloud environments.

CI/CD, Automation & SDLC:

• Develop, optimize, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment performance and reliability.
• Provide SDLC maintenance and automation through IaC solutions (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, etc.).
• Enhance Site Reliability and infrastructure automation to drive consistency, repeatability, and operational efficiency.

Operations, Documentation & Incident Response

• Lead and contribute to incident response, troubleshooting production issues and ensuring rapid resolution.
• Maintain thorough documentation of architecture, security controls, procedures, and infrastructure standards.
• Support log monitoring, performance tuning, and operational telemetry.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (Engineering, Security, Data Science, Network Operations) to ensure stable, secure, and scalable systems.

EXPERIENCE

• BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of experience in DevSecOps, Cloud Engineering, or Security Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS environments and AWS security services.
• Hands-on experience with IaC tools (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible, CDK).
• Strong understanding of security frameworks, especially NIST 800-53 Rev 5 and CIS AWS Foundations.
• Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with monitoring, logging, and event management tools (CloudWatch, ELK, Datadog, etc.).
• Strong knowledge in vulnerability management, patching, and cloud security hardening.
• Excellent troubleshooting and incident-response skills.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams.
• Have solid written and verbal English skills.
• Ability to maintain a positive work attitude.
• Initiative and drive to do great things.

Nice to Have

• Experience with large-scale, multi-environment AWS deployments.
• Knowledge of compliance audits, documentation standards, and reporting.
• Background in network engineering or SDLC process optimization.
• Experience supporting data science, automation, or SRE-focused initiatives.
• Familiarity with scripting (Python, Bash) and containerization (Docker, EKS/ECS).

ABOUT THE COMPANY/BENEFITS

Plan A Technologies is an American software development and technology advisory firm that brings top-tier engineering talent to clients around the world. Our software engineers tackle custom product development projects, staff augmentation, major integrations and upgrades, and much more. The team is far more hands-on than the giant outsourcing shops, but still big enough to handle major enterprise clients.

Read more about us here: www.PlanAtechnologies.com.

Location: Work From Home 100% of the time, or come in to one of our global offices. Up to you.

Great colleagues and an upbeat work environment: You'll join an excellent team of supportive engineers and project managers who work hard but don't ever compete with each other.

Benefits: You’ll get a generous vacation schedule, Brand New Laptop, and other goodies.