Senior DevSecOps, Platform Security Engineer – AWS, Kubernetes

Red Cell Partners

. Design, build, and maintain CI/CD security controls that scale across repositories and teams (reusable pipeline components, templates, and standards).

Posted 4/21/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $175,000 - $215,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

AWSGoKubernetesPythonTerraform

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design, build, and maintain CI/CD security controls that scale across repositories and teams (reusable pipeline components, templates, and standards).
Implement Kubernetes security architecture and guardrails (RBAC hardening, workload security baselines, admission policies, network policies, and safe multi-tenant patterns as applicable).
Improve container security end-to-end: base-image strategy, vulnerability scanning, registry controls, image signing, and promotion workflows.
Operationalize vulnerability management with risk-based prioritization, measurable remediation SLAs, and dashboards/metrics (MTTR, exposure trends, top recurring root causes).
Drive developer enablement: clear documentation, lightweight design reviews/threat modeling for high-impact changes, office hours, and high-signal guidance embedded in tooling.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in DevOps/SRE/Platform Engineering and/or Security Engineering with a strong automation and delivery focus.
Hands-on experience securing AWS environments: IAM (least privilege), network controls, encryption (KMS), and centralized logging/detection.
Strong Kubernetes security experience (EKS or equivalent): RBAC, workload hardening, and policy enforcement via admission control.
Experience integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows (SAST, SCA, secrets scanning, container scanning, IaC scanning).
Infrastructure as Code proficiency (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, or Pulumi) and ability to embed guardrails into IaC workflows.
Proficiency scripting/coding (e.g., Python, Go, Bash) to build integrations, automations, and internal tooling.
Able to communicate risk and tradeoffs clearly and pragmatically to engineers; improves signal-to-noise rather than adding friction.

Benefits

Comp & perks

A fully remote, results-based environment
Competitive salary, bonus, and equity package
100% employer paid, comprehensive health insurance including medical, dental, and vision for you and your family
Unlimited PTO, with your manager’s approval
Flexible work environment where you manage your work day
14 weeks of fully-paid parental leave

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Hard Skills & Tools

CI/CDKubernetesvulnerability managementInfrastructure as CodeTerraformCloudFormationPythonGoBashsecurity architecture

Soft Skills

communicationdeveloper enablementdocumentationdesign reviewsthreat modelingrisk assessmentpragmatism