Senior DevSecOps Engineer, Platform Release Engineering (6+)
Role summary:
Release and platform-safety engineer responsible for CI/CD, security scanning, deployment hygiene, observability, secrets management, rollback, release gates, and operational readiness for platform services.
Key responsibilities:
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for backend services, frontend surfaces, tests, scans, packaging, and release workflows.
- Implement security checks, dependency scanning, secrets scanning, code scanning, container scanning, and policy-based release gates.
- Establish observability baselines: logs, metrics, traces, alerts, runbooks, release evidence, and incident handoff patterns.
- Define and automate deploy/rollback workflows for containerized services across approved runtime environments.
- Partner with engineers to make tests, release evidence, operational documentation, and rollback posture part of every delivery path.
- Maintain release checklists, incident runbooks, environment hygiene, and operational readiness standards.
Required technical skills:
- Strong CI/CD experience, preferably with GitHub Actions or comparable systems.
- Container experience using Docker and containerized runtime environments such as Kubernetes, OpenShift, or comparable enterprise container platforms.
- Infrastructure-as-code experience with Terraform, Pulumi, CDK-style tools, or equivalent.
- Security scanning experience covering secrets, dependencies, source code, containers, and release-blocking rules.
- Observability experience with logs, metrics, tracing, alerting, incident runbooks, and rollback procedures.
- Strong understanding of release gates, deployment hygiene, environment separation, and operational support for platform services.
AI / LLM readiness and prompt-coding expectations:
- Comfort using AI-assisted coding tools for DevSecOps work while preserving review, audit, and security discipline.
- Anthropic Academy, Claude Code, OpenAI, or comparable AI tooling training is preferred; equivalent demonstrated knowledge is acceptable.
- Prompt coding is helpful but not a hard gate for this role.
- Should understand how AI-generated code or configuration should be reviewed, scanned, logged, and promoted safely.
Preferred skills:
- OpenTelemetry or comparable telemetry standards.
- Policy-as-code or release gate automation experience.
- Experience supporting internal platforms, developer platforms, or governance-heavy delivery environments.
- Experience with release evidence, immutable artifacts, checksums, signed releases, audit-friendly deployment records, or secure software supply-chain practices.
- Familiarity with OWASP, SAST, DAST, SCA, secrets scanning, and container/IaC scanning patterns.
First 90-day outcomes:
- Deliver baseline CI/CD pipelines for backend and frontend repositories.
- Implement the first security scan and release-gate workflow.
- Create observability baseline and rollback runbook for the first platform service.
- Create release evidence checklist and integrate it into the review and promotion workflow.