DevOps Engineer (Remote)

Role Overview

The DevOps Engineer supports reliable, scalable, and secure delivery pipelines across Universal Background Screening’s platform ecosystem. This is a US-based remote role focused on automating deployments, hardening environments, and integrating security practices into CI/CD (DevSecOps).

Responsibilities

DevOps & Infrastructure

• Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for continuous delivery across multiple environments.
• Manage and optimize cloud infrastructure on AWS (or Azure), including compute, networking, storage, and managed services.
• Automate operational tasks (provisioning, configuration management, patching, monitoring) using tools like Ansible.
• Support containerized workloads with Docker and Kubernetes or ECS.
• Monitor system health, set up alerting, and participate in incident response and root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with development and QA to improve build reliability, deployment frequency, and system resilience.

Information Security (DevSecOps)

• Apply cloud security best practices (e.g., IAM least-privilege, secrets management, network segmentation).
• Assist with vulnerability scanning, patch management, and remediation tracking.
• Implement compliance-aligned controls using frameworks such as SOC 2, NIST, or ISO 27001.
• Integrate security tooling into CI/CD pipelines (e.g., SAST, DAST, dependency scanning).
• Participate in security reviews, threat modeling, and risk assessments.
• Manage and audit access controls, certificates, and secrets using AWS Secrets Manager or HashiCorp Vault.
• Support security incident response, log analysis, and forensic investigations when needed.

Requirements

• 3+ years of hands-on DevOps or platform engineering experience.
• Strong AWS experience (e.g., EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Proficiency with CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or GitLab CI.
• Containerization and orchestration experience (Docker, Kubernetes/ECS).
• Scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Infrastructure as Code knowledge (Terraform preferred).
• Foundational information security and secure configuration practices (network security included).
• Experience with secrets management and access control concepts.
• Logging/observability familiarity (CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk, or similar).

Preferred Qualifications

• Security certification/coursework (e.g., CompTIA Security+, AWS Security Specialty, or equivalent).
• Experience with vulnerability scanning tools (Qualys, Tenable, Snyk, etc.).
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (e.g., SOC 2, HIPAA, NIST, CIS Benchmarks).
• Experience implementing automated security gates in pipelines (DevSecOps).
• Background in regulated industries (healthcare, financial services, background screening).
• Exposure to SIEM tools and security event log management.
• Experience with onshore/offshore distributed teams.

Special Requirements

• Must be proficient in English (written and verbal).