Description:

The DevSecOps Engineer is a front-line member of Authentic8’s Security & Reliability Operations (SRO) team, working in both the Integrated Operations Center (IOC) and the broader SRO engineering squad.
This role involves safeguarding service availability, security, and compliance by monitoring key dashboards, triaging and resolving incidents, hardening systems, automating processes, and shipping well-tested code and infrastructure changes.
Daily work aligns with the Operations Charter’s tenets of Temet Nosce, Standardization, Automation, Simplicity, and Continuous Improvement, while advancing Operations Objectives: Platform Reliability, Security & Compliance, Efficiency & Innovation, and Cross-Functional Collaboration.
The position requires rotating between proactive monitoring, deep engineering tasks, and project work, gaining expertise across security and reliability domains.
This is an individual-contributor role reporting to the DevSecOps Lead and operates under the guidance of the Directors of Security Ops & Engineering and Reliability Ops & Engineering.

Requirements:

A Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience is required.
Candidates must have 3+ years of hands-on experience in DevSecOps, SRE, security engineering, or systems reliability roles.
Proficiency with Linux (preferably Ubuntu), GitLab, CI/CD, configuration management (Chef or similar), and one or more scripting languages (Python, Bash, Ruby) is necessary.
Working knowledge of monitoring/alerting stacks (Grafana, Icinga) and incident platforms (PagerDuty) is required.
Familiarity with security frameworks and hardening standards (NIST 800-53/171, CIS benchmarks, FedRAMP) is essential.
Clear and concise communication skills are needed to write actionable incident timelines and technical runbooks.
US Citizenship is required.

Authentic8 offers competitive benefits, including medical, dental, and vision coverage.
Employees enjoy flexible PTO to promote work-life balance.
A 401k program is available to help employees save for retirement.
Stock options are provided as part of the compensation package.
The company is committed to equal employment opportunity (EEO) for all individuals, regardless of various protected characteristics.