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The DevSecOps Engineer is responsible for embedding security into the software development lifecycle and the firm's CI/CD pipelines, with primary focus on application security guardrails, developer-facing tooling, and secure engineering practices. The role also maintains hands-on cloud security expertise, primarily on AWS with working proficiency across Azure, to harden posture and reduce exposure. Sitting within Infrastructure Engineering, the role partners closely with application development, platform, and DevOps teams to build guardrails that get adopted rather than imposed, protecting systems and data while supporting delivery speed.
Key Responsibilities
- Own and continuously mature the firm's DevSecOps program, embedding SAST, DAST, SCA, infrastructure-as-code and secrets scanning, and policy gates directly into CI/CD pipelines to catch issues before deployment.
- Partner with application development teams to threat-model new services and features at design time, translating findings into concrete guardrails and remediation guidance developers can act on.
- Build and maintain secure-by-default patterns, reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, and golden pipeline templates that engineering teams adopt by default.
- Operationalize the firm's cloud-native application protection platform (Wiz): triage, prioritize, and remediate findings across cloud and application layers, reducing backlog and mean time to remediate.
- Establish and codify cloud security guardrails primarily on AWS, including Service Control Policies, Config rules, public-access blocking, default encryption, and tagging baselines.
- Harden identity and access (IAM roles, policies, permission boundaries, and least privilege) and network exposure across cloud workloads.
- Extend posture management and guardrails to Azure, using tools such as Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, Entra ID, and equivalent GCP controls.
- Drive down internet-facing exposure, targeting zero critical and high-severity findings across public-facing workloads and applications.
- Provide security evidence and controls in support of SOC 2, audit, and regulatory requirements, with emphasis on evidencing secure SDLC practices.
Required Skills
- Strong, hands-on experience embedding security into CI/CD pipelines and the SDLC: SAST, DAST, SCA, infrastructure-as-code scanning, secrets management, and policy-as-code/gating.
- Practical application security background, including threat modeling and secure coding guidance, with a track record of working directly with developers to land fixes without becoming a blocker to delivery.
- Solid, hands-on AWS security expertise (IAM, VPC and network security, KMS and encryption, Service Control Policies, public-exposure controls), plus working proficiency in Azure and/or GCP security (Entra ID, Azure RBAC, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, or equivalent GCP services).
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform and/or CloudFormation; Bicep or GCP Deployment Manager an advantage) and scripting and automation (Python preferred).
- Solid understanding of core security processes, including vulnerability management, logging and detection, secrets management, and incident support.
- Experience operating a CNAPP/CSPM platform (Wiz preferred), with a track record of remediating findings rather than only reporting them.
- Familiarity with container and Kubernetes security (EKS/AKS/GKE) and AI/ML application security is desirable.
Educations and Or Work Experience Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field.
- Four (4)+ years of experience in DevSecOps, application security, or cloud security engineering.
- Professional certifications such as a DevSecOps or application security credential (e.g., GWEB, Certified DevSecOps Professional), AWS Certified Security – Specialty, or equivalent.
- Prior exposure to audit and compliance standards including SOC 2, ISO 27001, or SOX.
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Candidates must be at least 18 years old to apply.
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Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field
- Four or more years of experience in DevSecOps, application security, or cloud security engineering
- Hands-on experience embedding SAST, DAST, SCA, infrastructure-as-code scanning, secrets management, and policy-as-code into CI/CD pipelines
- Practical application security experience, including threat modeling and secure coding guidance
- Hands-on AWS security expertise, including IAM, VPC, network security, KMS, encryption, Service Control Policies, and public-exposure controls
- Working proficiency in Azure and/or GCP security
- Proficiency with Terraform and/or CloudFormation
- Scripting and automation experience; Python preferred
- Understanding of vulnerability management, logging and detection, secrets management, and incident support
- Experience operating a CNAPP or CSPM platform; Wiz preferred
- Familiarity with container and Kubernetes security, including EKS, AKS, or GKE
- Familiarity with AI/ML application security
- Professional DevSecOps or application security certification, such as GWEB or Certified DevSecOps Professional
- AWS Certified Security Specialty certification or equivalent
- Prior exposure to SOC 2, ISO 27001, or SOX audit and compliance standards
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StepStone Group (Nasdaq: STEP) is a global private markets investment firm focused on providing customized investment solutions and advisory and data services to our clients. StepStone’s clients include some of the world’s largest public and private defined benefit and defined contribution pension funds, sovereign wealth funds and insurance companies, as well as prominent endowments, foundations, family offices and private wealth clients, which include high-net-worth and mass affluent individuals.StepStone partners with its clients to develop and build private markets portfolios designed to meet their specific objectives across the private equity, infrastructure, private debt and real estate asset classes.
