
Senior DevSecOps Engineer
About Pedestal Health
Pedestal Health (formerly Target RWE) combines deep health system partnerships, longitudinal data curation at scale, and modern study design to build continuous, high-quality evidence for life sciences organizations. The company partners with pharmaceutical and biotech companies, providers and payers to generate rigorous, multimodal evidence that supports clinical, regulatory and strategic decision-making across the full lifecycle of care. Pedestal Health is committed to advancing medical decision making to improve outcomes for patients. Pedestal Health is a Highlander Health company. Learn more at pedestalhealth.com.
Overview
- Seeking a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to secure internal infrastructure, cloud services, deployment tooling, and development workflows
- Lead design, implementation, and continuous improvement of secure, scalable production platforms
- Embed security across the full software development lifecycle (SDLC)
- Partner closely with engineering, infrastructure, and application teams
What You’ll Do
- Perform advanced vulnerability assessments across cloud, infrastructure, and application platforms
- Partner with application owners to prioritize and drive remediation efforts
- Design, implement, and optimize secure CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling
- Integrate security into the SDLC (code scanning, secrets management, policy enforcement)
- Apply best practices for system hardening, configuration management, IAM, and least-privilege access
- Define and evolve security controls, standards, and guardrails across the organization
- Leverage modern cloud and DevOps technologies to build secure, scalable infrastructure
- Lead and support security incident response, including root cause analysis and long-term remediation
- Mentor engineers and promote a strong security-first culture
- Develop and maintain security documentation, runbooks, and internal knowledge sharing
What You’ll Bring
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years of experience in security engineering, DevSecOps, or infrastructure security
- Hands-on experience securing cloud platforms (AWS preferred) at scale
- Experience securing CI/CD pipelines and containerized environments (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, or Salt)
- Solid networking fundamentals (VPCs, ACLs, subnets, DNS, routing, segmentation)
- Experience with Linux systems and relational databases (PostgreSQL)
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language and Git-based workflows
- Experience with security tooling (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, secrets management)
- Strong collaboration skills in distributed teams
- Clear communication, ownership mindset, and strong problem-solving abilities
Nice to Have
- Experience in regulated environments (healthcare, life sciences, or similar)
- Advanced networking and cloud security experience (firewalls, zero-trust architectures)
- Familiarity with CSPM tools (Wiz, Rapid7, or similar)
- Kubernetes security and runtime protection experience
- Experience with Jira and Confluence
- CISSP, AWS Security Specialty, or similar certifications
What We Offer You
- Hybrid work — 3 days/week in our brand-new office!
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
- 401(k) with company match
- Generous PTO and company holidays
- Paid parental leave
Hybrid role: Located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina
If you are ready to be part of a team where your work truly matters—where your expertise is valued, your growth is supported, and your contributions help shape the future of healthcare—Pedestal Health is the place for you. We’re building something meaningful together, and we’d love for you to be a part of it.
Pedestal Health is an equal opportunity employer and seeks candidates from diverse backgrounds and abilities.
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