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Staff DevSecOps Engineer (R5824)

Shield AI· Hivemind Enterprise Division – Core Services & Infra
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San Diego, CA$150k - $230kFull Time EmployeePosted 1mo ago

About the role

Cloud Engineering builds and operates the infrastructure and environments that support Shield AI’s software products and platforms. As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will design, build, and automate security controls across cloud infrastructure, software delivery systems, and containerized workloads, partnering with Cybersecurity, Infosec, Build Engineering, and product teams to translate security and compliance requirements into practical engineering controls.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement security controls across AWS infrastructure and platform services
  • Build and maintain hardened container images and secure base images for engineering and production workloads
  • Integrate vulnerability, dependency, container, and configuration scanning into software delivery systems
  • Automate security and compliance checks to reduce manual review and improve consistency
  • Implement secrets management, identity, and access controls across infrastructure and engineering systems
  • Build mechanisms for audit evidence, configuration validation, and compliance reporting
  • Identify security weaknesses in infrastructure, containers, and delivery systems and drive remediation with owning teams
  • Partner with Cybersecurity and Infosec to translate security requirements into scalable engineering controls
  • Work with Build Engineering and Cloud Engineering to integrate security controls without compromising reliability or developer workflows
  • At the Staff level, Define reusable patterns and drive adoption of security engineering practices across multiple teams

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of related experience for Senior Engineer or 7+ years for Staff Engineer, or equivalent education and experience
  • Experience implementing security controls in AWS or another major cloud environment
  • Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automated infrastructure provisioning
  • Experience securing containerized workloads and building or maintaining hardened container images
  • Experience integrating security tooling into CI/CD or software delivery systems
  • Experience with vulnerability management, dependency scanning, container scanning, or configuration validation
  • Experience implementing identity, secrets, and access controls in cloud or engineering environments
  • Experience automating security or infrastructure tasks using Python, Go, Bash, or a similar language
  • Ability to diagnose security and configuration issues across infrastructure, containers, and platform services
  • Experience working with security and engineering teams to implement shared technical controls

Skills

Required:AWS security controlsInfrastructure as CodeContainer securityCI/CD security toolingVulnerability & configuration scanningIdentity, secrets, and access controls

Benefits

  • Pay within range listed + Bonus + Benefits + Equity
  • Temporary benefits package (applicable after 60 days of employment)
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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Our mission is to protect service members and civilians with intelligent systems.

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