We are seeking a highly experienced DevSecOps & IaC Lead to drive enterprise-wide DevSecOps transformation and Infrastructure as Code implementation during the migration of large-scale on prem systems to AWS cloud. This role requires deep expertise across CI/CD pipelines, security automation, cloud-native DevOps tooling, third-party DevSecOps platforms, and large-scale IaC governance.
The ideal candidate will lead cross-functional engineering teams, define DevSecOps strategy, enforce secure-by-design principles, and ensure seamless DevSecOps operations across hybrid and cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities
1. DevSecOps Strategy & Cloud Migration Leadership
- Lead the DevSecOps transformation for applications and platforms migrating from on prem to AWS.
- Build a roadmap for CI/CD modernization, security automation, and cloud-ready pipelines.
- Ensure DevSecOps practices support lift & shift, replatforming, containerization, and modernization migration patterns.
- Collaborate with cloud, application, SRE, and security teams to ensure DevSecOps maturity improves during and after migration.
- Define enterprise IaC standards using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Ansible, and GitOps practices.
- Lead IaC implementation for AWS landing zones, networking, security, containers, and application infrastructure.
- Establish modular IaC patterns, reusable blueprints, guardrails, and governance frameworks.
3. Cloud Native & Third Party DevSecOps Tooling Integration
- Architect and integrate DevSecOps toolchains across cloud and on prem ecosystems, including:
- CI/CD: GitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, Azure DevOps
- Security: Snyk, Checkmarx, SonarQube, Prisma Cloud, Aqua, Twistlock
- Containers: EKS, ECS, ECR, Helm, ArgoCD, Flux
- Secrets & identity: AWS Secrets Manager, HashiCorp Vault
- Compliance: AWS Security Hub, GuardDuty, OPA/Conftest, Checkov
- Ensure deep integration between security scanning, artifact repositories, code quality, and deployment automation.
4. Security Automation & Shift Left Enablement
- Implement "security-by-default" and "shift-left" practices across the software lifecycle.
- Automate:
- SAST/DAST
- Dependency & container image scanning
- Policy-as-code (Rego/OPA)
- Secrets scanning
- Infrastructure compliance
- Establish secure CI/CD pipeline patterns covering application, container, and infrastructure layers.
5. Observability, Reliability & DevOps Excellence
- Partner with SRE, platform, and cloud teams to embed monitoring, logging, tracing, and auditability into pipelines.
- Implement automated quality gates, blue green/canary deployments, and progressive delivery strategies.
- Standardize operational best practices through automation, runbooks, and deployment frameworks.
6. Governance, Risk, Automation & Compliance
- Ensure all DevSecOps and IaC pipelines comply with enterprise security, audit, and regulatory requirements.
- Define DevSecOps maturity KPIs (deployment frequency, MTTR, security findings, drift metrics).
- Build automated governance controls for release management, security enforcement, and compliance checks.
- Drive adoption of secure cloud operating models across all stakeholders.
7. Leadership & Stakeholder Management
- Lead cross-functional DevSecOps squads and mentor engineers on DevSecOps, IaC, and cloud automation practices.
- Work with program managers to ensure DevSecOps readiness across all migration waves.
- Communicate progress, risks, and technical decisions to senior leadership and architecture boards.
- Provide strategic input on enterprise cloud engineering standards and transformation roadmap.
Required Skills & Experience
Technical Expertise
- 14+ years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud automation, or infrastructure engineering.
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, CI/CD, IaC, and security automation.
- Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK, Ansible
- Security tools: Snyk, Checkmarx, SonarQube, Prisma Cloud, Vault
- Logging/observability platforms (CloudWatch, ELK, Datadog)
Security & Compliance Skills
- Strong understanding of cloud security principles: IAM, KMS, encryption, zero trust, least privilege.
- Experience implementing policy-as-code and pipeline security controls.
- Understanding of CIS benchmarks, NIST, ISO27001, compliance frameworks.
- Direct experience supporting large-scale on prem to AWS migrations.
- Strong understanding of migration waves, application onboarding, and pipeline modernization.
- Excellent communication and architectural documentation abilities.
- Experience leading multi-disciplinary teams across dev, infra, cloud, and security domains.
- Ability to influence architects, executives, developers, and operations teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Solutions Architect - Associate/Professional
- HashiCorp Terraform Certification
- Kubernetes certifications (CKAD, CKA, CKS)
- DevSecOps or SRE certifications (nice-to-have)
Success Metrics
- Fully automated, secure CI/CD pipelines across all migration phases
- Enterprise-wide IaC adoption with strong governance and consistency
- Reduction in security vulnerabilities and pipeline defects
- Faster cloud onboarding and deployment times
- Improved security posture and operational reliability post migration