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DevSecOps Engineer

Motion Recruitment Partners, LLCBoston, MA🇺🇸United States

Why this role stands out

This hybrid DevSecOps Engineer role offers significant career growth through hands-on experience with cutting-edge AWS services, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted development, all within a collaborative team environment. You'll thrive here if you have extensive cloud and IaC experience and a passion for building secure, scalable infrastructure, so apply today to join a reputable firm!

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Work modeHybrid
LocationBoston, MA, United States

Job description

Responsibilities
  • Design and maintain scalable, automated, and secure AWS infrastructure using OpenTofu/Terraform.
  • Support networking, identity, compute, storage, and Kubernetes services.
  • Implement security best practices, including:
    • System hardening
    • Vulnerability and secrets management
    • Least-privilege access
    • Logging and monitoring
    • Secure-by-default patterns
  • Own engineering tickets from requirements through implementation, testing, rollout, documentation, and handoff.
  • Independently manage work, resolve routine blockers, and maintain progress.
  • Work with Kubernetes and container technologies such as Docker and Podman.
  • Use AI-assisted development tools to improve coding, testing, documentation, and problem-solving.
  • Review, test, and validate all AI-generated code and recommendations.
  • Develop automated unit, integration, and validation tests for infrastructure code.
  • Build automation and engineering utilities using Python and Bash.
  • Participate in code reviews, design reviews, troubleshooting, and standards development.
  • Collaborate with technology governance teams on engineering processes, security controls, and audit requirements.
  • Maintain continuity across existing platform initiatives and active workstreams.
Required Qualifications
  • 10+ years of experience in platform engineering, systems engineering, DevOps, SRE, cloud engineering, or a related field.
  • Significant hands-on AWS experience supporting production workloads and platform services.
  • Advanced OpenTofu/Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
  • Strong Kubernetes deployment, operations, support, and troubleshooting skills.
  • Strong Docker and/or Podman experience.
  • Proficiency in Python and Bash.
  • Experience developing, testing, reviewing, and maintaining production-quality infrastructure code.
  • Practical knowledge of hardening, vulnerability management, least privilege, secrets management, logging, and monitoring.
  • Ability to deliver complex engineering work from requirements through production with limited supervision.
  • Strong self-management, problem-solving, communication, and documentation skills.
  • Experience with AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, or comparable platforms.
  • Ability to validate AI output through human review, testing, quality gates, and security standards.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, or similar security frameworks.
  • Experience with enterprise CI/CD platforms and secure delivery-pipeline design.
  • Experience with automated Infrastructure as Code testing and validation.
  • Experience integrating AI assistance into established engineering workflows while maintaining human review, security, testing, and change controls.

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