[Hiring] Team Lead, DevSecOps @Deel

Role Description

As the DevSecOps Team Lead, you will be the bridge between Security, Operations, and Engineering. You will lead a team of specialized engineers to build, scale, and maintain a "Security-as-Code" ecosystem. Your mission is to empower development teams to ship software faster and more securely by providing them with automated guardrails, self-service security tools, and expert architectural guidance.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Team Management
  • Team Growth: Lead, mentor, and coach a team of DevSecOps engineers. Conduct performance reviews, manage career development paths, and foster a culture of high performance.
  • Roadmap Ownership: Define the DevSecOps strategy and multi-quarter roadmap, aligning security initiatives with broader business and engineering goals.
  • Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary point of contact for Engineering and Product leads to ensure security requirements are baked into the Product Discovery phase.
• Security Architecture & Governance
  • Policy-as-Code: Lead the implementation of organizational guardrails using tools like OPA (Open Policy Agent) or Kyverno to ensure compliance is automated across all environments.
  • Secure Infrastructure: Oversee the design of secure cloud architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Kubernetes clusters, focusing on Zero Trust networking and identity-driven access.
  • Vendor & Budget Management: Evaluate, procure, and manage third-party security vendors and tools (e.g., Snyk, Wiz, Cloudflare), ensuring maximum ROI and technical fit.
• Operational Excellence
  • Metric-Driven Security: Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) such as Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR), vulnerability burn-down rates, and false-positive ratios.
  • Incident Response: Serve as a technical escalation point for high-severity security incidents and lead the "Blameless Post-Mortem" process to drive systemic improvements.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in Security, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles.
• 2+ years in a leadership capacity (Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Engineering Manager).
• Proven track record of scaling security practices in a cloud-native, high-growth environment.

Requirements

• Technical Proficiency
  • Automation & IaC: Expert knowledge of Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, and CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
  • Cloud & Containers: Deep understanding of Kubernetes security (RBAC, Network Policies, Admission Controllers) and cloud provider security services.
  • Tooling: Experience implementing and tuning SAST, DAST, SCA, and Secret Management (HashiCorp Vault) at scale.
  • Development: Proficiency in Python, Go, or TypeScript to build custom internal security tooling and integrations.
• Soft Skills
  • Pragmatism: Ability to balance "perfect security" with the "speed of business."
  • Communication: Exceptional ability to translate complex technical risks into business impact for executive stakeholders.

Benefits

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status, and location.
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country.
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access.