As a senior technical leader within the Engineering department, you will ensure that security is embedded into every layer of our infrastructure and delivery pipelines. You will collaborate across Development, Operations, and Security teams to build automated, policy-driven, and observable infrastructure that meets the highest standards for reliability, scalability, and compliance. This role is critical in driving DevSecOps culture and practices across the organization.
What You'll Do:
Architect and implement secure, production-grade EKS clusters using infrastructure-as-code (IaC) and GitOps principles
Integrate and configure open-source tools including ArgoCD (GitOps), Kyverno (policy enforcement), Karpenter (autoscaling), and the Grafana stack (monitoring and observability)
Ensure security best practices are applied across all infrastructure components, including IAM, network policies, secrets management, and container runtime configurations
Design and enforce Kubernetes security policies, RBAC, and network segmentation using tools like Kyverno and AWS-native controls
Collaborate with Product and Platform teams to ensure infrastructure meets performance, reliability, and compliance requirements
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with embedded security checks, vulnerability scanning, and policy validation
Develop reusable Terraform modules and Helm charts that enforce secure defaults and compliance standards
Monitor and troubleshoot production workloads, ensuring high availability, performance, and security posture
Participate in an on-call rotation to support production systems and respond to incidents
Advocate for DevSecOps principles and mentor engineers on secure cloud-native tooling and automation
Evaluate emerging technologies and make strategic recommendations to leadership, with a focus on security and operational excellence
Document architecture decisions, operational runbooks, and incident response procedures with a security-first mindset
Other tasks and responsibilities as assigned
What You'll Need:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field*
8+ years of experience in DevOps, site reliability engineering, or cloud infrastructure roles
Deep expertise with Kubernetes (preferably EKS) in production environments
Hands-on experience with ArgoCD, Karpenter, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Tempo
Proficiency in Terraform and Helm for infrastructure and application deployment
Strong understanding of GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipeline design
Experience with AWS services including IAM, VPC, EC2, S3, and CloudWatch
Solid grasp of container security, Kubernetes RBAC, and policy-as-code (PaC)
Excellent troubleshooting skills across infrastructure, networking, and application layers
Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively with remote teams
Must be authorized to work in the United States
*Additional years of relevant experience or a combination of an Associate’s degree or equivalent and relevant experience may be substituted for the Bachelor’s degree.
At CIS, we are committed to providing an inclusive environment in which the diverse backgrounds, experiences, and views of our employees, members, and customers are valued and respected. It is through this commitment that we are able to work together towards our common mission: to make the connected world a safer place.
Compensation Range:
USD$126,700.00 - $221,700.00Top Skills
What We Do
The Center for Internet Security, Inc. (CIS®) makes the connected world a safer place for people, businesses, and governments through our core competencies of collaboration and innovation.
We are a community-driven nonprofit, responsible for the CIS Controls® and CIS Benchmarks™, globally recognized best practices for securing IT systems and data. We lead a global community of IT professionals to continuously evolve these standards and provide products and services to proactively safeguard against emerging threats. Our CIS Hardened Images® provide secure, on-demand, scalable computing environments in the cloud.
CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (MS-ISAC®), the trusted resource for cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S. State, Local, Tribal, and Territorial government entities, and the Elections Infrastructure Information Sharing and Analysis Center® (EI-ISAC®), which supports the rapidly changing cybersecurity needs of U.S. elections offices.
