Senior DevOps Engineer, Security & Compliance

Zafran Security is seeking a Senior DevOps Engineer with a strong security and compliance background to lead their compliance posture and prepare for FedRAMP. The role involves hardening infrastructure, implementing necessary controls for regulated customers, and building automation for compliance certification.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the technical work to achieve and maintain compliance certifications (SOC 2, ISO 27001, and the upcoming FedRAMP process)
• Design and implement security controls across AWS infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes, and application deployments
• Build the automation, logging, and evidence collection required for continuous compliance
• Implement and maintain secrets management, IAM hardening, network segmentation, and encryption standards
• Develop infrastructure solutions for customers in highly regulated industries, including isolated or dedicated environments
• Collaborate with security, legal, and engineering on threat modeling, vulnerability management, and incident response
• Stay ahead of FedRAMP, FISMA, and related federal requirements and translate them into concrete engineering work

Requirements:

• Must be located in the US, with a strong preference for the New York area; US remote considered
• U.S. citizenship or lawful permanent resident status (Green Card) required due to FedRAMP-related eligibility requirements and access to a U.S.-only environment
• 5+ years of DevOps / platform engineering experience with a strong security focus
• Direct experience implementing controls for SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI, or FedRAMP
• Deep AWS security knowledge: IAM, KMS, GuardDuty, Security Hub, VPC design, Config
• Strong Kubernetes security experience: network policies, admission control, runtime security
• Infrastructure as Code with Terraform, with a focus on policy-as-code
• CI/CD security: SAST, DAST, SCA, image scanning, supply chain hardening
• Solid scripting in Python or Bash
• Prior experience leading or mentoring a small team
• Direct hands-on experience with a FedRAMP Moderate or High authorization
• Experience with GovCloud (AWS US-East/West GovCloud regions)
• Relevant certifications (AWS Security Specialty, CISSP, CCSP)