DevSecOps Engineer – Mid-Level
ALEX - Alternative Experts
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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Salary
💰 $120,000 - $125,000 per year
About the role
- Build, maintain, and enhance CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI/CD and Jenkins
- Integrate security scanning and vulnerability detection into CI/CD workflows
- Write and maintain Helm charts supporting Kubernetes deployments
- Improve deployment reliability and reduce manual processes, including database migrations and rollbacks
- Ensure consistency across development, staging, and production environments
- Support secrets management and secure configuration practices
- Develop dashboards and monitoring solutions providing at-a-glance system health
- Implement and improve end-to-end testing within CI/CD pipelines
- Troubleshoot issues across application, infrastructure, and pipeline layers
- Collaborate with engineering and security teams to meet compliance and mission requirements
- Support system evolution toward event-driven architectures where appropriate
Requirements
- 3–6 years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, platform, or backend engineering
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins, or similar
- Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and Helm
- Experience supporting distributed systems or data pipelines
- Ability to troubleshoot across application, queue, and infrastructure layers
- Proficiency in Python and Bash scripting
- Understanding of system reliability, scaling, and failure modes
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Security, or a related field (or equivalent professional experience)
- Preferred Certifications: CompTIA Security+, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner or Solutions Architect – Associate, CKAD or CKS (exposure or working knowledge)
Benefits
- ALEX provides a variety of benefits designed to help meet the needs of our employees.
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Hard Skills & Tools
CI/CDGitLab CI/CDJenkinsKubernetesHelmDockerPythonBash scriptingend-to-end testingsecurity scanning
Soft Skills
troubleshootingcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationadaptabilityattention to detailorganizational skillsanalytical thinkingtime managementcritical thinking
Certifications
CompTIA Security+AWS Certified Cloud PractitionerAWS Certified Solutions Architect – AssociateCKADCKS