Senior DevSecOps Engineer

RegScale is a CCM platform enhancing GRC outcomes. RegScale bridges security, risk, and compliance by overcoming speed, timeliness, and high costs. Our CCM platform and AI deliver GRC results, cutting costs and accelerating compliance. Achieve rapid certification, anticipate threats, and automate evidence collection. Organizations experience 90% faster compliance and 60% less audit prep.

Position: 

Are you ready to take your career to the next level with a critical position in an innovative startup that is disrupting the compliance industry? We are actively seeking a highly skilled Senior DevSecOps Engineer to help scale our operations and deliver world-class value to our customers. The successful candidate will play a critical and highly visible role, serving as a technical expert and creative thought leader in our Cloud-Native software company. It requires an engineer with broad skills and experience, and a flexible approach to solution design and delivery.  

If you are passionate about process automation, solving the most cutting-edge design challenges, working with highly skilled people, and the idea of working in a fast-paced startup, then we would love to have you on our team. We are offering a generous compensation package including a competitive base salary, bonus, and significant stock options – because we recognize that hiring and cultivating world-class talent is critical to our company’s success. 

Candidate must be a US Citizen and is subject to a background check and unannounced drug testing requirements. Position may allow some remote work but is expected to be in our Knoxville, TN offices on a regular basis. 

Required Skills: 

• Advanced knowledge of DevOps: Git-based source control, software tools and builds, artifact storage, CI/CD pipelines, static and dynamic code scanning tools, runtime environments, and deployments.  
• Advanced familiarity with Azure and general experience in one or more other major Cloud Service Provider platforms: Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, or others. This includes major IaaS and PaaS offerings around compute, storage, networking, database, and other managed services. Deep knowledge and hands-on experience with highly secured cloud environments such as Azure GovCloud
• Ability to break down high-level business requirements into project-level scopes, then design, document, and implement cloud and DevOps solutions that meet these requirements.  
• Proven ability architecting scale out solutions in support of SaaS software platforms 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Must be comfortable with customers, with other engineers, with sales, and with executives. 
• Proficient in cloud-native event-driven solution architectures. 
• Ability to create clear, concise, and thorough documentation – for both internal and customer-facing use cases. 
• Ability to quickly learn complex new or existing technologies and patterns, to evaluate their utility, and formulate and communicate appropriate recommendations for architects and managers. 
• Proficiency in generating and presenting architectural drawings. 
• Experience with Agile Project Management, Scrum processes, and operating in a geographically distributed project environment. 
• Demonstrated proficiency in scripting with bash, PowerShell, Python or other languages 
• Expert in building, storing, and running containerized workloads. Must be an expert with Docker, as well as container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes, docker-compose, or serverless container workloads.  
• Self-starter with a passion for continuous learning and personal development 
• Experience in applying security baselines and patches to cloud based systems 

Activities: 

• Administer and automate all aspects of our Azure and Office365 cloud tools and workloads – RegScale SaaS platform, lab environments, DevOps – including using Infrastructure as code. 
• System administration tasks for Azure infrastructure including monitoring, patching, user management, and securing applications
• Lead remediation of infrastructure issues from penetrations tests, vulnerability scans, or other sources in support of maintaining our security posture
• Command line and SSH access into our Azure environment to manage cloud-based systems 
• Design and build solutions that power our DevOps monitoring, networking, and security programs. 
• Ensure architecture activities directly support and align with the Chief Technology Officer’s vision and product roadmap
• Maintain DevOps pipelines: adding new functionality and integrations, plus troubleshooting. 
• Maintain and administer our Logging and Monitoring environments – including dashboards and alerts. 
• Continuously improve the installation, configuration, and deployment processes to make RegScale installs more efficient and repeatable over time 
• Support the RegScale Cyber Security team by implementing required architecture components and policies, responding to incidents, and providing required compliance artifacts. 
• Interface with the development team to support changes, upgrades, enhancements, and new features in the RegScale product runtime or pipelines. 
• Review cloud invoices to ensure cost efficiency and optimize cloud spend through design
• Assign and prioritize DevOps user stories to R&D staff and subcontractors
• Document architecture requirements in R&D user stories to support software development
• Drive efficiency in the SDLC through fast, resilient, and accurate infrastructure and pipelines
• Meet and exceed deadlines for solution delivery for internal and external SLAs
• Work with the Data team to build and maintain our data analytics architecture. 
• Administer and maintain our cloud-based backup, retention, and disaster recovery tools.  
• Develop and troubleshoot Dockerfiles, deploy containers to our registries, and assist with patching containers 
• Innovate. Be creative. Have fun. Grow.  

Education/Training, Qualifications, and Certification: 

• Minimum of nine years experience as a Cloud, DevOps, or Systems Engineer or a Bachelor’s Degree and 6+ years of experience 
• Advanced cloud certification preferred in Azure Cloud, Kubernetes, and/or DevOps engineering and architecture, including Infrastructure as Code 
• Scrum or Project Management experience
• Experience working in a large consulting or services organization. 
• Experience working at a software startup company
• Experience working as a system administration for a system integrator or other large enterprise 
• Experience working with compliance tools and processes. 
• Must be a US Citizen and capable of passing a background check and random periodic drug testing