Staff DevSecOps Engineer

Seon Fraud Prevention - Austin, TX

Full-time - Senior

Hybrid - Austin, TX

About the position

As a Staff DevSecOps Engineer at SEON, you'll be responsible for ensuring the security, efficiency, and continuous innovation of our platform to support our engineering teams. In this role you will drive the adoption of modern, cloud-first, security-first design patterns and integrate these with existing systems. You will develop and maintain deployment standards, reusable interfaces, and orchestration workflows that enhance efficiency and streamline cloud service integration. You will serve as a technical advisor on cloud best practices, focusing on security, performance, and cost optimization for projects and teams. Additionally, you will build and maintain CI/CD building blocks and shared libraries proactively for app and development teams to enable faster build and deployment. Your responsibilities will also include implementing scalable, reusable solutions and patterns for CI/CD pipelines, designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure automation, and developing action plans to resolve any challenges in CI/CD tools and infrastructure. You will collaborate closely with QA, product development, and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration of security and performance practices across the development lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Drive the adoption of modern, cloud-first, security-first design patterns and integrate these with existing systems
• Develop and maintain deployment standards, reusable interfaces, and orchestration workflows that enhance efficiency and streamline cloud service integration
• Serve as a technical advisor on cloud best practices, focusing on security, performance, and cost optimization for projects and teams
• Build and maintain CI/CD building blocks and shared libraries proactively for app and development teams to enable faster build and deployment
• Implement scalable, reusable solutions and patterns for CI/CD pipelines, enabling streamlined deployment across projects
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure automation, ensuring high availability, reliability, scalability, and performance
• Develop action plans to resolve any challenges in CI/CD tools and infrastructure, continuously improving and optimizing these platforms
• Architect and implement infrastructure and security solutions that align with organizational security standards in collaboration with our Security team
• Help to embed security best practices within the automation process, creating a robust and secure cloud environment
• Maintain and update incident tracking tools, capturing all necessary data and documenting findings
• Diagnose and troubleshoot technical issues, perform root cause analysis, and escalate complex issues when necessary
• Monitor and optimize application performance and service quality, ensuring high standards and quick issue resolution
• Ensure adherence to established change control processes, obtaining necessary approvals for changes
• Communicate updates to project leads and escalate issues when needed, maintaining smooth and transparent communication
• Collaborate closely with QA, product development, and infrastructure teams to ensure seamless integration of security and performance practices across the development lifecycle
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, contributing technical expertise in DevSecOps to support SEON's broader goals

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevSecOps, cloud-based provisioning, CI/CD pipeline management, monitoring, and troubleshooting
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS
• Experience with various coding and scripting languages such as Bash, Python
• Strong experience of using modern containerization software including Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
• Strong knowledge of DevOps automation, such as Terraform, and GitHub Actions
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with experience interpreting and acting on data
• Demonstrated ability to communicate technical concepts to varied audiences concisely
• Experience with data and reporting processes to support DevSecOps KPIs and metrics
• Demonstrated expertise in strategic thinking, strong business acumen, and a highly creative problem solver

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with automation tools like Ansible, Chef, or Puppet
• Familiarity with API Security, Container Security, and AWS Cloud Security
• Strong knowledge of observability tooling (eg. Prometheus, ELK, Grafana)
• Understanding of ISO, GDPR, and CCPA standards and their certification and audit processes
• Experience with AWS cloud services at scale (AWS Organization, cross-account networking, permission management with SSO and IAM)
• Project Management experience

Benefits

• Competitive salary and incentive compensation structure
• Hybrid work model
• Extensive Benefits package (Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, 401k w/ match, etc.)
• Best-in-class tech gear
• Immediate impact on a smart, growing, global team
• Access to continuous development tools & a strong coaching culture
• Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
• Generous vacation & leave policies
• Complimentary weekly language courses
• Weekly in-office lunch delivery budget