Cloud DevSecOps Engineer

About

Thank you for your interest in a career at Regions. At Regions, we believe associates deserve more than just a job. We believe in offering performance‑driven individuals a place where they can build a career — a place to expect more opportunities. If you are focused on results, dedicated to quality, strength and integrity, and possess the drive to succeed, then we are your employer of choice.

Primary Responsibilities

• Partners with other engineers and information technology staff to orchestrate code builds, quality and security analyses, deployments, and automated testing through CI/CD release candidacy pipelines
• Articulates business needs and translate them into technology solutions
• Models release candidate CI/CD pipelines as a mechanism to communicate the states and steps necessary to determine a release candidate for each application and service
• Designs and develops fully autonomous CI/CD pipelines which facilitate cloud deployments which includes automation of all infrastructure, services and application build and deployment
• Ensures that all parts of the pipeline follow good software engineering practices to include automated tests and infrastructure tests
• Researches new technologies that will improve efficiency and effectiveness
• Implements highly scalable CI/CD platforms to support high change volumes and fast feedback
• Automates operational activities and tasks
• Responds to performance issues identified by alerts and reported incidents related to CI/CD platforms
• Builds tools which reduce errors and improve our overall customer experiences
• Assists in troubleshooting of production issues and ensure pipeline and infrastructure produces clear documentation and metrics which enables Root Cause Analysis
• Develops and tests – Ansible Playbooks, Terraform Scripts, Packer Scripts and establish immutable infrastructure such that patches are an artifact of the past
• Works with Enterprise Architecture, Information Security (InfoSec), Software Delivery, and Quality Assurance to enable the organization to move to the cloud using complete automation
• Partners across Technology, Operations, Digital, and Data (TODD) to ensure controls are designed, implemented, and monitored to strengthen risk management, compliance, and cyber security, effectively mitigating risk to levels within the company’s risk appetite
• Practices disciplined change management by evaluating risk and control impacts when designing or implementing changes to processes, systems, products, and/or services and ensures appropriate updates to procedures, training, and controls are made accordingly

Requirements

• High School Diploma or GED and eight (8) years of related post‑secondary education and/or experience in Information Security or Information Technology

Preferences

• Four (4) years of relevant DevSecOps experience
• AWS DevOps certification or Azure DevOps certification
• Experience in building / deploying cloud native applications – OpenShift, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
• Experience in observing real‑time metrics in the pipeline and deployment strategies – Blue/Green, Canary Deployment
• Experience with either AWS or Azure cloud technologies
• Experience with interfacing with secrets management solutions like Hashicorp Vault
• Familiar with implementing Chaos engineering principles in the pipeline to determine weak links and suggest solutions
• Familiar with testing tools used to facilitate automation and integration of the tools into CI/CD pipelines
• Must be comfortable in developing pipelines as code using yaml specs, ansible playbooks

Skills and Competencies

• Ability to interpret and ensure compliance with applicable rules, regulations, and industry guidance
• Excellent communication skills and willing to mentor developers and other team members in the art of DevSecOps
• Excellent knowledge of Cloud infrastructure, networking, services, and cloud architectural patterns; specifically, compute using virtual machines, managed infrastructure, containers, serverless, as well as database services, security services, and application services
• Proficient in Python programming language
• Understanding of Shift Left principles and facilitation technologies
• Working Knowledge of Jenkins, Azure DevOps, Ansible, Terraform, Packer, Git, ServiceNow a big plus

Benefits

• Paid Vacation/Sick Time
• 401K with Company Match
• Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits
• Disability Benefits
• Health Savings Account
• Flexible Spending Account
• Life Insurance
• Parental Leave
• Employee Assistance Program
• Associate Volunteer Program

Location Details

• This position is currently offsite, preferably close to a Regions office within our retail branch footprint. Associates will work from their home primarily and may be expected to go on site for meetings or other events as needed.
• Riverchase Operations Center – Hoover, Alabama