DevOps / Security Engineer — Cloud Platform & IoT Systems

Benefits-forward opportunity in Chantilly, VA with hybrid on-site options and a competitive compensation package. This role offers a salary range of $120,000 – $170,000 per year plus a comprehensive benefits lineup including 401(k), health, dental, vision, paid time off, and par parental leave. The successful candidate will contribute to GoodCloud, a multi-region cloud platform with per-cell Kubernetes deployments that support more than 10 million devices.

Responsibilities

• Own reliability and security operations across GoodCloud’s multi-region deployments, including per-cell Kubernetes clusters deployed via a shared Helm umbrella chart.
• Define and monitor SLOs and error budgets; build and operate monitoring, alerting, and incident-response across cells.
• Conduct security assessments and support penetration testing engagements.
• Manage IAM, access control, and secrets management across regional cells.
• Support data residency controls and cross-jurisdiction compliance, ensuring device data, telemetry, and encryption keys stay within their home region.
• Design and maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines across distributed engineering teams in the United States and internationally.
• Implement automated security testing (SAST, DAST, dependency and container scanning) within the pipeline.
• Manage infrastructure as code across the cell-based Kubernetes architecture using Terraform and Helm.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems (metrics, traces, structured logs) across all regions.
• Support firmware build pipelines for embedded systems, including migrating from Jenkins to GitLab CI.
• Support firmware security and release-compliance workflows aligned with regulatory requirements.
• Handle vulnerability disclosure intake and patch/release management.
• Coordinate with global engineering teams on security updates and CVE remediation.
• Prepare documentation for regulatory submissions and equipment-authorization needs as required.
• Maintain operational documentation and audit trails to support compliance reviews.
• Track reliability and security metrics and report them through the monthly operations process.
• Support cross-team audit and traceability requirements for U.S. and international offices.

Requirements

• Minimum 5 years of combined experience in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering with meaningful hands-on ownership of production cloud infrastructure.

Technologies

• AWS
• GCP
• Azure
• GitLab CI
• GitHub Actions
• Jenkins
• Terraform
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Helm
• MQTT
• EMQX
• Kafka
• Linux

Benefits

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Vision insurance

Application question

This is an onsite job. Are you able to work on-site Monday through Friday?