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Senior DevSecOps Engineer - Tech Lead

Remote - US

About Us! 

Founded in 2002, Raptor has partnered with more than 60,000 schools in 55 different countries, including 5,300+ K-12 US school districts, to provide integrated visitor, volunteer, attendance, dismissal, emergency management, and safeguarding software and services covering the complete spectrum of school and student safety. 

We are passionate about our mission to protect every child, every school, every day! 

About the Role

Reporting to the Sr. Director of QA and DevSecOps, the Lead DevSecOps Engineer will drive the design, automation, and continuous improvement of secure cloud infrastructure and delivery pipelines across our Azure ecosystem. This player-coach role combines deep technical expertise with hands-on leadership, guiding a team of DevSecOps engineers to strengthen the security, reliability, and velocity of our software delivery lifecycle.

The ideal candidate will drive operational excellence across our Azure-based infrastructure, champion best practices in security and deployment automation, and foster a culture of continuous improvement. You will partner closely with Development, QA, and InfoSec teams to embed security, compliance, and observability across our CI/CD processes—supporting both legacy .NET applications and modern microservices hosted in Azure. 

The ideal candidate will lead by example through technical contributions, mentorship, and adherence to organizational standards for speed, security, and efficiency. 

Responsibilities 

  • Leadership and Mentorship: Guide a team of four DevSecOps engineers, promoting best practices in automation, security, and reliability.
  • Secure CI/CD Pipelines: Maintain GitLab-based pipelines, ensuring consistent integration of security scans, automated testing, and compliance gates.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Develop and maintain infrastructure through Terraform, enabling repeatable and auditable environment provisioning.
  • Cloud Operations: Architect, automate, and manage infrastructure in Azure (primary) with some AWS exposure, supporting hybrid and microservices deployments.
  • Monitoring and Observability: Implement and optimize alerting and performance monitoring through New Relic to ensure high availability and rapid incident response.
  • Security Integration and Automation: Partner with InfoSec to implement automated vulnerability scanning, key and secret management (Azure Key Vault), and continuous configuration monitoring aligned with SOC 2 and ISO 27001 standards.
  • Change Management & Compliance: Enforce disciplined change control, versioning, and deployment approvals in alignment with security and audit requirements.
  • Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities to enhance delivery velocity, system resilience, and cost efficiency across the DevSecOps toolchain.
  • Incident Response: Participate in on-call rotation to support production environments and coordinate root-cause analysis and remediation.
  • Engineering Enablement: Work closely with Engineers to design scalable DevSecOps solutions that accelerate delivery, improve reliability, and enhance developer productivity.
  • Workflow Optimization: Streamline CI/CD processes and reduce friction through automation and tooling improvements.
  • Cloud Migration: Lead cloud migration initiatives ensuring secure, scalable, and cost-efficient operations across Azure and AWS.
  • FinOps & Cost Optimization: Manage and optimize cloud spend through FinOps methodologies and resource utilization monitoring.
  • Modern DevOps Practices: Champion trunk-based development, shift-left implementation and automated quality gates to improve software delivery maturity

Qualifications

  • Senior level experience (combined 10+ years) in DevSecOps, DevOps, CloudOps, Site Reliability position(s)
  • Served in a mentor or leadership position – either formally or informally
  • Willing to travel to the Houston office twice per year
  • Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services including AKS, Key Vault, Application Configuration, Service Bus, and Azure SQL
  • Proven experience managing .NET applications across both monolithic and microservices architectures for a SAAS platform
  • Deep hands-on expertise with Azure (primary) and familiarity with AWS environments
  • Strong proficiency in GitLab CI/CD
  • Demonstrated skill in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
  • Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, AKS)
  • Experience implementing security automation, including SAST/DAST, secrets management, and compliance reporting
  • Knowledge of cloud networking, IAM, and identity management (Azure AD, VNet, NSGs)
  • Proficiency in scripting (PowerShell, Bash, or Python)
  • Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across development, QA, and InfoSec teams

Preferred Qualifications

  • Experience migrating from Jenkins
  • Experience supporting SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audit readiness and evidence collection
  • Familiarity with multi-cloud governance, cost optimization, and infrastructure monitoring best practices
  • Prior experience mentoring or leading a small technical team in a DevSecOps or SRE function
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field

 

What's in it for you? 
  • You will have the opportunity to shape DevSecOps standards and automation across a growing SaaS platform
  • You will provide hands-on leadership of an established team driving meaningful transformation in delivery and security practices
  • You will enjoy a modern technology stack and collaborative cross-functional culture
  • You will join the gold standard in school safety software
  • You will join a company where innovation and customer collaboration are part of what drives new product development to help keep kids safe.
  • You will work with diverse teams made up of some of the best minds in the industry.
  • You will exposure to strong mentorship and leadership that have supported a long history of career advancement opportunities for our employees.
  • You will have access to a robust benefits package that includes: 
    • Remote-first philosophy 
    • Flexible paid time off 
    • Paid parental leave 
    • 11 Paid holidays per year 
    • Workplace flexibility 
    • Affordable health coverage (medical, dental, vision), paid 100% for employee only medical 
    • 401(k) employer contribution to help you plan for the future 
    • Company paid life insurance, STD, and LTD 

 

If you are a resident of California, Colorado, New Jersey, New York or Washington, please reach out to hr@raptortech.com for a reasonable estimate of annual base compensation and any eligible incentive compensation. The actual compensation offered to successful candidates for roles may be higher or lower, based on non-discriminatory criteria including but not limited to relevant professional experience, geographic location, knowledge, skills, and abilities. This range will be reviewed on a regular basis.

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