DevOps Engineer - Cyber Tech

$120,000 - $140,000 Base + 20% Bonus, Equity & Benefits

USA (Remote)

Our client are specialists within the cyber tech sector. They offer a strong response to cyber incidents such as ransomware, email compromise, malware, data theft, and other threats with end-to-end response capabilities.

As a DevOps Engineer, you won't just be maintaining pipelines — you’ll be building the digital foundation that supports investigations into ransomware, data breaches, and advanced threats affecting real organizations today. This is not your average DevOps role. You’ll work in a mission-critical environment where your decisions directly impact our ability to deliver rapid, effective, and scalable forensic services to our clients. You’ll collaborate with top-tier DFIR professionals, security engineers, and leadership, helping shape the tools, systems, and infrastructure that drive digital investigations and threat containment.

The primary responsibilities of the DevOps Engineer will include:

• Ensure the AWS infrastructure supporting our analysis and customer platform is reliable, stable, and secure
• Build and maintain infrastructure as code, configuration repositories, and core services
• Develop and maintain tools that enable DFIR and internal security operations at scale
• Write clean, secure, well-documented code in Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, etc.
• Interact with REST APIs and API-driven security technologies to automate security tasks.
• Build dashboards, integrations, and searches/reports to support client delivery teams
• Develop well-crafted processes and maintain clear technical documentation
• Collaborate with internal teams to identify and address technical requirements
• Assist with debugging and developing technical solutions during incident response and forensic analysis activities

Your Expertise:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Cybersecurity, related field of study or equivalent
• Practical work experience in cybersecurity engineering, development, or hands-on experience as a cyber operator (Incident Response, Threat Hunting, Malware Analysis, or similarly previously held roles).
• Professional experience as a DevOps Engineer, or Senior Engineer with a focus on cybersecurity and software engineering.

Required Experience:

• Experience developing with Python (our primary language)
• Foundational experience with AWS (or other cloud providers
• EC2, S3, and core services
• AMIs (creation, hardening, lifecycle)
• Networking (VPCs, subnets, routing, DNS, security groups, bastion patterns)
• Strong Linux/Unix familiarity (shell usage, systemd, permissions, troubleshooting)
• Experience working in shared codebases.
• Git version control (branching strategies, pull requests)
• CI/CD practices (build/test automation, deployments)

Preferred Experience:

• Experience operating within cloud environments, preferably AWS
• Cloud Site Reliability Engineering and operations experience
• Proficiency with Terraform or similar IaC tools
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Familiarity with virtualization and containerization technologies
• Experience with Elastic Stack or other distributed systems
• Experience with GitHub/GitLab for code and infrastructure releases
• Strong scripting in Bash, PowerShell, or JavaScript
• Understanding of databases: SQL, NoSQL, Cassandra
• Experience managing observability tools and infrastructure security components
• Familiarity with cloud-native architectures and technologies
• Experience building tools for security teams or DFIR workflows