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DevSecOps Engineer – Python/Jenkins/Terraform – Boston, Ma
DevSecOps Engineer - Python/Jenkins/Terraform - Boston, Ma
Job ID: mrp-886526
Boston, ,
Information Technology
Contract,
$80 - $110
On-site
Other/Non Classified
Boston, ,
$80 - $110
Contract,
Other/Non Classified
On-site
Information Technology
Job details
Job Description
An established organization in a highly regulated industry is seeking a Senior Platform & Security Engineer to join its Platform Engineering team on a contract basis. This individual will play a key role in designing, implementing, and supporting secure cloud infrastructure while helping ensure continuity across critical platform initiatives.
The ideal candidate is a highly independent engineer with deep AWS and Infrastructure as Code expertise, strong Kubernetes and containerization experience, and a passion for technology. This person should be comfortable taking ownership of complex technical problems, driving solutions with minimal supervision, and leveraging modern AI-assisted development tools while maintaining rigorous security and quality standards.
If you’re the type of technologist who continuously learns, automates everything possible, and enjoys building secure, scalable platforms, this opportunity offers a chance to make an immediate impact.
Required Skills & Experience
- 10+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related field
- Extensive hands-on experience supporting enterprise production workloads in AWS
- Advanced expertise with Terraform and/or OpenTofu
- Strong Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience
- Deep Kubernetes deployment, administration, support, and troubleshooting skills
- Experience with Docker and/or Podman container technologies
- Strong Python and Bash scripting skills
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub and Jenkins
- Hands-on experience with Ansible and Packer
- Strong understanding of Linux systems administration
- Experience implementing security controls including:
- System hardening
- Vulnerability management
- Secrets management
- Least-privilege access models
- Logging and monitoring
- Secure-by-default infrastructure patterns
- Experience creating, testing, reviewing, and maintaining production-quality infrastructure code
- Experience developing automated testing for infrastructure platforms and deployments
- Strong communication, documentation, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently and take ownership from requirements through production deployment
- Experience using AI-assisted development tools such as GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, Codex, or similar technologies
- Ability to validate AI-generated solutions through testing, code review, security controls, and quality gates
Desired Skills & Experience
- Experience within financial services or other highly regulated industries
- Experience with SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, or similar compliance frameworks
- Experience with Terraform testing frameworks such as Terratest
- Experience with Container Structure Test, Pester, or similar validation tooling
- Experience with observability tools including Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK/OpenSearch, or Datadog
- Experience with AWS services such as IAM, VPC, ECS, EKS, Lambda, and RDS
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Open-source contributions, personal GitHub repositories, or side projects demonstrating technical passion
- Experience integrating AI-powered tooling into established engineering workflows
- Strong interest in emerging technologies and continuous professional development
What You Will Be Doing
Daily Responsibilities
- 100% Hands On
- Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable AWS infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu
- Build and support cloud platform services across networking, identity, compute, storage, and Kubernetes environments
- Create and enhance automation tools and platform utilities using Python and Bash
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines with GitHub and Jenkins
- Build and execute automated Infrastructure as Code testing and validation processes
- Implement container security best practices across Kubernetes, Docker, and Podman environments
- Configure cloud-native services including logging, monitoring, security scanning, and secrets management
- Participate in code reviews, architecture discussions, troubleshooting, and engineering standards development
- Partner with security, risk, and governance teams to support compliance and audit requirements
- Monitor system reliability, security posture, and platform performance
- Produce technical documentation, operational runbooks, and implementation guides
- Independently drive engineering work from requirements gathering through deployment and handoff
- Leverage AI-assisted development tools to improve productivity while maintaining strong security and testing standards
- Support ongoing platform modernization and cloud engineering initiatives
The Offer
- Contract opportunity
- Competitive hourly compensation
- $80/hr – $110/hr depending on experience and alignment to role requirements
- Opportunity to work on enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure and security initiatives
- Exposure to modern platform engineering, automation, Kubernetes, and AI-assisted development practices
- Collaborative engineering culture focused on continuous learning and technical excellence
You will receive the following benefits
- Medical Insurance
- Dental Benefits
- Vision Benefits
- Paid Time Off (PTO)
- 401(k)
Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis now and in the future.
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