Job Description
DevSecOps Senior Engineer/Lead
Location: Torrance, CA
Work Type: Onsite 4 days per week
Employment Type: W2 Only
Position Success Criteria / Minimum Educational Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree (BS/MS).
Position Overview
The DevSecOps Senior Engineer/Lead within the Client's Digital Services Development organization is responsible for leading CI/CD, DevSecOps, cloud platform engineering, and environment management for digital platforms. This role drives automation, security, observability, reliability, and AI-enabled engineering practices while ensuring development, QA, staging, and production environments remain stable, scalable, and secure.
The individual partners closely with development, architecture, security, and operations teams to support complex enterprise programs, accelerate software delivery, improve developer productivity through AI-powered tools and automation, and maintain highly available cloud-native platforms.
Key Responsibilities (Mandatory Skills)
- Bring 5-10 years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, or related disciplines supporting enterprise-scale applications and distributed systems.
- Have 3+ years of experience in a senior technical role, such as DevSecOps Lead, Platform Engineer, Senior DevOps Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE).
- Demonstrate strong hands-on experience with AWS cloud services, including EKS/ECS, Lambda, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, S3, RDS, Kinesis, MQ, Redshift, Secrets Manager, SNS, SQS, EventBridge, ElastiCache, and related services.
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Argo CD, or similar technologies.
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, CloudFormation, Helm, and related automation frameworks.
- Demonstrate strong experience with Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and container platform operations.
- Implement DevSecOps practices, including vulnerability management, secrets management, policy enforcement, compliance validation, and software supply chain security.
- Apply strong cloud security knowledge, including IAM, RBAC, encryption, OAuth 2.0/OIDC, JWT, network security, and Zero Trust principles.
- Build and manage observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions using CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, Datadog, Splunk, or similar tools.
- Develop automation and scripts using Python, Bash, Go, or similar programming languages.
- Drive platform reliability, resiliency, operational excellence, disaster recovery, and production readiness.
- Leverage AI-assisted engineering tools such as GitHub Copilot, Amazon Q, OpenAI, Claude, Cursor, or similar technologies to improve developer productivity, automation, troubleshooting, and operational efficiency.
- Demonstrate familiarity with enterprise AI/LLM concepts, including Prompt Engineering, RAG, Vector Databases, AI Agents, LLMOps, AI Security Guardrails, and Responsible AI practices.
- Collaborate with development, architecture, security, and infrastructure teams to improve platform scalability, security posture, developer experience, and engineering productivity.
- Lead cloud modernization, automation, platform engineering, and DevSecOps initiatives while mentoring engineering teams on best practices.
Desired Skills (Nice to Have)
- Experience integrating and operating AI/LLM services using AWS Bedrock, Amazon Q, OpenAI, Azure AI, Anthropic Claude, or equivalent enterprise AI platforms.
- Experience supporting LLMOps pipelines, AI model deployment, governance, monitoring, and security.
- AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Security, DevOps, AI/ML, or related professional certifications.
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Numbers & Facts
| Location | Torrance, CA |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 500 to 999 employees |
| Year Founded | 1990 |
About Company
For over two decades, Sharp Decisions has provided superior, award-winning service in strategic business and technology consulting services to government agencies at all levels, as well as domestic and global corporations. With subject matter expertise in Investment Banking, Finance, Healthcare, Media & Telecommunications, and Manufacturing, Sharp Decisions is well equipped to serve your needs.
Established in 1990 with headquarters in New York City, and locations in Princeton, Charlotte, Los Angeles, Phoenix, Europe and Canada, Sharp Decisions has been the technology backbone for a client portfolio that includes an array of well-known companies. As a Certified Woman-Owned Business Enterprise and approved vendor, Sharp Decisions offers a powerful, cost-effective advantage. We actively partner with other MBEs to add value and meet diversity program requirements.
Sharp Decisions is also committed to hiring and training post-9/11, tech-savvy U.S. armed forces veterans through our V.E.T.S.â„¢ (Vocation, Education and Training for Service members) Program, but we cannot do it alone. Companies like EmblemHealth, Freddie Mac and Experian have stepped up to bring aboard our highly qualified and skilled veterans. We need more companies like them to take a stand and bring our veterans aboard. Our clients have told us that our veterans are more effective than their college hires because two weeks on the job for them equates to 2-3 years of experience! Learn more at www.sharpdecisions.com/vetsprogram.
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