[Hiring] Staff DevOps Engineer @A Place for Mom

Role Description

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Staff DevOps Engineer to join our team. This role will focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), enhancing our developer platform, and ensuring robust security practices. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in SRE principles, platform engineering, and security, with a proven ability to drive improvements in system reliability, performance, and security.

The position:

• Data-driven with a passion for information security.
• Enjoys data analysis and making large amounts of information understandable and actionable.
• Likes solving new problems and building new tools and codes.
• Collaborates to build better, more secure applications.
• Wants to join a team of talented security and technology professionals focused on building a robust and secure infrastructure.

A Place for Mom is updating its security monitoring and vulnerability management systems. These systems need to provide useful information to the development teams so they can understand security concerns before they are deployed to production. We are seeking a Staff DevOps Engineer - Security to work as part of a team, interpret findings, and own the issue through remediation, to help us achieve our goal of zero security incidents.

Who you are:

• An experienced and results-oriented Staff DevOps Engineer - Security who can work cross-functionally to develop and implement security improvements and safeguards.

What you will do:

• Incorporate A Place for Mom Values into each customer and co-worker interaction.
• Perform configuration, network, and application technical vulnerability assessments, identify vulnerabilities, validate their relevance, and work with teams to remediate them.
• Design and implement security solutions across infrastructure and applications to ensure "secure by default" principles are followed.
• Monitor, analyze, and respond to alerts from automated logging and monitoring tools, including AWS Security Hub, AWS Systems Manager, Cisco Duo Security, Endpoint protect, and SIEM tools like Alert Logic or Rapid7.
• Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate security practices, integrating security controls and checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Respond to security-related requests, events, and incidents; perform triaging and investigation as needed; and provide the fixes as appropriate.
• Analyze security threats, vulnerability assessments, and audit results to identify the root cause and recommend or implement security solutions that enable business objectives.
• Lead the development and enforcement of security standards, policies, and procedures, ensuring alignment with industry best practices.
• Collaborate with other teams to support response efforts to security-related findings or concerns and drive to resolution.
• Analyze mean time to remediation, incident response times, and other security metrics and provide assessment reports.
• Develop and maintain automated security testing and scanning tools to detect vulnerabilities during the development lifecycle.
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of the IT security industry including awareness of new or revised security solutions and improved security processes.
• Evangelize a culture of security to the rest of the company through education, support, and empathy, fostering a culture of security awareness.
• Stay up-to-date on the latest security threats, vulnerabilities, and trends, proactively recommending improvements to security posture.
• Perform additional tasks as assigned.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge and 5+ years’ experience in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field (or equivalent work experience).
• TCP/IP and other network protocols.
• Computer systems and their security functions including authentication, access control, and auditing.
• Securing Windows and Linux-based environments.
• CI/CD pipelines using GitHub, familiarity with IAC tools like Terraform.
• AWS Containerization like Fargate.
• Entry point tools and applications such as firewalls, WAF, CDN, APIs.
• Endpoint solutions such as Anti-virus software and intrusion detection, and encryption.
• In-depth knowledge of AWS environments and their security services.
• Scripting with Powershell, Bash, AWS CLI, Cloudformation, and Terraform.
• Managing Security tools: such as MFA, SIEM, Auditing, Security Training, Risk Registry.
• Strong understanding of Security frameworks such as NIST, ISO.
• Strong understanding of application security, including secure coding practices, OWASP Top 10, and vulnerability assessment tools (e.g., Snyk, Veracode, Burp Suite).
• Strong problem-solving skills and ability to communicate complex security issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently, as a team member, or under the direct supervision of a company leader.

Requirements

• Practical experience implementing a zero trust environment.
• Experience with penetration testing, and replication of the finding independently.
• Bachelor’s degree in IT.
• CISSP/CISA/Security+/Network +/CWAPT/OSCP/CEH or other security certification is a plus.

Benefits

• 401(k) plus match.
• Dental insurance.
• Health insurance.
• Vision Insurance.
• Paid Time Off.