DevSecOps Engineer (Cybersecurity)

Location: New York, NY; on-site; U.S. citizenship required. The role requires eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance and may involve work in a controlled environment.

Base salary: $159,000–$195,000 per year. Estimated total compensation: $204,000–$263,000, including target bonus and estimated equity value.

Company

hirify.global, founded in 2024 and headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, develops offensive cyber operations capabilities for the United States and its allies.

What you will do

• Own runtime security and vulnerability management across cloud and container environments.
• Design and enforce IAM, AWS Organizations structures, account boundaries, SCPs, and security guardrails.
• Manage secrets and credentials, including policies, tooling, rotation, and developer workflows.
• Lead security incident response, including detection, containment, root cause analysis, and remediation.
• Harden CI/CD pipelines and build secure-by-default templates for repositories, infrastructure, and delivery workflows.
• Drive compliance evidence and controls while shaping the DSO function and contributing to hiring.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in DevSecOps, platform security, or a related security engineering role.
• Deep hands-on AWS experience, including IAM, SCPs, Organizations, GuardDuty, Security Hub, and CloudTrail.
• Strong Terraform and policy-as-code experience using tools such as OPA, Checkov, tfsec, or AWS Config Rules.
• Experience with production secrets management, CI/CD hardening, GitHub Actions, container security, and image scanning.
• Experience leading incident response and contributing to compliance programs; CMMC Level 2 or NIST SP 800-171 experience is strongly preferred.
• U.S. citizenship and eligibility to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government security clearance are required.

Nice to have

• Experience growing a DevSecOps or security engineering function.
• Familiarity with the LGTM observability stack, Ansible, and developer-facing security platforms.
• Interest in growing into a lead or manager role.

Culture & Benefits

• Security is treated as a force multiplier for engineering, with an emphasis on automation and enablement over manual policy enforcement.
• Medical, dental, vision, life, AD&D, and disability coverage options.
• Paid parental leave, including leave for birthing, non-birthing, adoptive, foster, and intended parents through surrogacy.
• Paid holidays, flexible PTO, 401(k) options, HSA/FSA, and dependent care FSA.