DevSecOps Engineer

DevSecOps Platform Engineer

Location: Iselin, NJ (3 days onsite)
Employment: Long-term contract through March 2027
Level: Senior / Experienced

Overview

Seeking an experienced DevSecOps Platform Engineer to design, secure, and operate large-scale infrastructure supporting big data, analytics, AI/ML, and critical enterprise platforms. This role blends deep platform engineering, strong security practices, and automation skills to maintain a resilient, compliant, and high-performance environment.

You will work across containerized platforms, big data ecosystems, and cloud-native technologies, ensuring reliability, enforcing security standards, and driving automation across the stack.

Key Responsibilities Platform Engineering

• Build, manage, and secure scalable, highly available infrastructure (Object Storage, OpenShift, Spark, Iceberg, Yunikorn, Trino).

• Detect and remediate configuration drift; enforce platform security policies.

• Configure and monitor Big Data components using BI/observability tools.

• Create automated regression/performance tests to maintain system stability.

• Handle cluster scaling, patching, and version upgrades.

• Run security assessments and apply operational guardrails.

Security & Access Control

• Implement OAuth, TLS/SSL, RBAC/ABAC models.

• Enforce data protection standards (encryption in transit/at rest).

• Validate compliance with IAM and regulatory frameworks (GDPR, HIPAA).

• Harden Kubernetes and containerized workloads.

Monitoring & Observability

• Monitor performance and system health across compute, storage, and data pipelines.

• Implement observability using Prometheus, Grafana, and enterprise tools.

• Work with operations teams on resiliency, HA, and disaster recovery.

Automation, CI/CD & DevSecOps

• Build IaC automation with Helm, Terraform, Python, and shell scripts.

• Enable repeatable, secure provisioning for platform and application services.

• Integrate infrastructure changes into CI/CD processes with policy and compliance controls.

Required Technical Skills Programming & Scripting

• Python, Bash/Shell, SQL

• Basic Java; Scala preferred for big data

• Strong scripting for automation and tooling

OS, Containers & Infrastructure

• Deep Linux expertise (systems, networking, tuning)

• Kubernetes, OpenShift, Helm, Terraform

• Experience operating workloads in large enterprise clusters

Big Data & Data Engineering

• Experience with Spark, Hadoop, Hive, Trino, Iceberg, NexusOne

• Nice to have: Airflow, NiFi

• Kafka/Flink for batch & streaming pipelines

• Object storage: S3, NetApp StorageGrid

• Familiarity with Parquet/Avro, ORC, JSON, CSV

AI/ML 

• ML frameworks or LLM workflows

• MLflow, Kubeflow, SageMaker

• Understanding of feature engineering and model deployment pipelines

Security & Compliance

• RBAC/ABAC

• TLS/SSL, encryption, KMS

• GDPR/HIPAA awareness and IAM governance

Architecture (Good to have)

• Microservices, event-driven systems

• Load balancing, caching, horizontal scaling

• HA, failover, DR, and monitoring architectures

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in DevSecOps, platform engineering, data infrastructure, or cloud-native roles

• Proven ability to operate distributed systems in regulated enterprise environments

• Strong cross-team communication and collaboration with security, data, and operations groups

• Skilled at troubleshooting, optimizing, and securing complex systems across compute, storage, and data layers

You will receive the following benefits:

• Medical Insurance - Four medical plans to choose from for you and your family
• Dental & Orthodontia Benefits
• Vision Benefits
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Voluntary Life Insurance, Long-Term & Short-Term Disability Insurance
• Hospital Indemnity Insurance
• 401(k) including match with pre and post-tax options
• Paid Sick Time Leave
• Legal and Identity Protection Plans
• Pre-tax Commuter Benefit
• 529 College Saver Plan

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.