Cloud DevSecOps Engineer - Amazon Connect

This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: Alabama (USA), North Carolina (USA), Texas (USA)

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Job Description:

At Regions, the Cloud DevSecOps Engineer contributes to the advancement of cloud strategy. The primary focus of this role includes developing, communicating, and implementing robust and secure cloud continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines. This role works closely with stakeholders to create fully automated pipelines which support current DevSecOps best practices.

Primary Responsibilities

• Partners with other engineers and information technology staff to orchestrate code builds, quality and security analyses, deployments, and automated testing through CI/CD release candidacy pipelines
• Articulates business needs and translate them into technology solutions
• Models release candidate CI/CD pipelines as a mechanism to communicate the states and steps necessary to determine a release candidate for each application and service
• Designs and develops fully autonomous CI/CD pipelines which facilitate cloud deployments which includes automation of all infrastructure, services and application build and deployment
• Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices to include automated tests and infrastructure tests
• Researches new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Implements highly scalable CI/CD platforms to support high change volumes and fast feedback
• Automates operational activities and tasks
• Responds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents related to CI/CD platforms
• Builds tools which reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiences
• Assists in troubleshooting of production issues and ensure pipeline and infrastructure produces clear documentation and metrics which enables Root Cause Analysis
• Develops and tests - Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts and establish immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the past
• Works with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Software Delivery, and Quality Assurance to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation

• Ensures compliance with risk management programs, rules and regulations, and cybersecurity practices; identifies opportunities for and supports process improvements; applies disciplined change management practices

This position is exempt from timekeeping requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act and is not eligible for overtime pay.

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED and eight (8) years of related post-secondary education and/or experience in Information Security or Information Technology

Preferences

• Four (4) years of relevant DevSecOps experience
• AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification
• Experience in building / deploying cloud native applications - OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Experience in observing real-time metrics in the pipeline and deployment strategies - Blue/Green, Canary Deployment
• Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies
• Experience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault
• Familiar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline to determine weak links and suggest solutions.
• Familiar with testing tools used to facilitate automation and integration of the tools into CI/CD pipelines
• Must be comfortable in developing pipelines as code using yaml specs, ansible playbooks

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to interpret and ensure compliance with applicable rules, regulations, and industry guidance
• Excellent communication skills and willing to mentor developers and other team members in the art of DevSecOps
• Excellent knowledge of Cloud infrastructure, networking, services, and cloud architectural patterns; specifically, compute using virtual machines, managed infrastructure, containers, serverless, as well as database services, security services, and application services
• Proficient in python programming language
• Understanding of Shift Left principles and facilitation technologies
• Working Knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, ServiceNow a big plus

• Extensive experience designing, implementing, and supporting AWS cloud platforms, leveraging Well-Architected Framework principles, cloud-native architectures, and multi-account environments.
• Strong expertise in AWS networking, compute, storage, databases, containers, serverless technologies, security, and hybrid connectivity solutions.
• Proven success building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines, DevOps platforms, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK), and deployment automation frameworks.
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, Docker, ECS, EKS, microservices, event-driven architectures, APIs, and enterprise integration patterns.
• Skilled in observability, monitoring, incident management, troubleshooting, and platform reliability using tools such as CloudWatch, Datadog, Dynatrace, OpenTelemetry, and New Relic.
• Strong background in cloud security, DevSecOps, IAM, Zero Trust, compliance, governance, and risk management frameworks.
• Effective technical leader with experience driving cloud transformation initiatives, mentoring engineers, and partnering across Architecture, Security, Development, QA, and Operations teams.
• Preferred certifications include AWS Solutions Architect Professional, AWS DevOps Engineer Professional, CKA/CKAD, and Terraform Associate.

AWS Certifications

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional (Highly Preferred)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate
• AWS Specialty Certifications (Preferred)

Other Relevant Certifications

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) / Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
• HashiCorp Terraform Associate
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional (Preferred)
• Certified Jenkins Engineer or equivalent CI/CD certification (Preferred)

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Compensation Details

Pay ranges are job specific and are provided as a point-of-market reference for compensation decisions. Other factors which directly impact pay for individual associates include: experience, skills, knowledge, contribution, job location and, most importantly, performance in the job role. As these factors vary by individuals, pay will also vary among individual associates within the same job.

The target information listed below is based on the Metropolitan Statistical Area Market Range for where the position is located and level of the position.

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Benefits Information

Regions offers a benefits package that is flexible, comprehensive and recognizes that "one size does not fit all" for benefits-eligible associates. Listed below is a synopsis of the benefits offered by Regions for informational purposes, which is not intended to be a complete summary of plan terms and conditions.

• Paid Vacation/Sick Time

• 401K with Company Match

• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits

• Disability Benefits

• Health Savings Account

• Flexible Spending Account

• Life Insurance

• Parental Leave

• Employee Assistance Program

• Associate Volunteer Program

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