Staff DevSecOps Engineer - Tech Lead
Location: Remote - US
Department: Cloud Ops
About Us!
Raptor was founded in 2002 with the mission to protect every child, every school, every day. Today, Raptor is a school safety partner for 60,000 schools in 55 countries, providing SaaS and mobile technology as well as comprehensive training and consultation solutions across the entire school safety life cycle, ranging from crisis prevention and preparation to emergency response and recovery. Raptor’s globally integrated product portfolio supports a school’s foundation of safety and wellbeing, including Emergency Management, Campus Movement, Student Wellbeing and Safety Training and Compliance.
About the Role
Raptor Technologies is seeking a Staff DevSecOps Engineer to drive DevSecOps initiatives throughout the SDLC. This role combines strategic leadership with tactical execution (approximately 30-50% hands-on keyboard), requiring someone who can guide a small team of DevSecOps engineers while working alongside them on complex technical challenges.
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. Your team will be responsible for critical shared services, change management processes, incident response, and cost optimization while collaborating closely with engineering, IT, and InfoSec teams to ensure Raptor's infrastructure is secure, scalable, and efficiently managed.
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 (from AWS and GCP to Azure).
- 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)
- Proven experience managing applications in a SAAS environment across both monolithic and microservices architectures
- Served in a mentor or leadership position – either formally or informally
- Willing to travel to the Houston office twice per year
- Experience in a fast-paced environment with frequent releases (multiple per week)
- Deep hands-on expertise with either Azure or AWS environments
- 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
- Deep hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure services including AKS, Key Vault, Application Configuration, Service Bus, and Azure SQL
- Proven experience managing applications in a .NET environment across both monolithic and microservices architectures for a SAAS platform
- Proficiency in GitLab CI/CD
- Experience migrating from Jenkins
- Experience migrating from one cloud to another
- Experience utilizing AI to increase efficiency
- 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 leading a small technical team in a DevSecOps or SRE function
- Experience in a 200-1,000 person org
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field
- 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:
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Remote-first philosophy
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Flexible paid time off
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Paid parental leave
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11 Paid holidays per year
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Workplace flexibility
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Affordable health coverage (medical, dental, vision), paid 100% for employee only medical
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401(k) employer contribution to help you plan for the future
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Company paid life insurance, STD, and LTD
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Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we are unable to personally respond to every applicant or provide individual feedback. Candidates selected to move forward will be contacted directly by our team. We appreciate your interest in Raptor Technologies.
If you are a resident of California, Colorado, New Jersey, New York or Washington, please reach out to [email protected] 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.
Raptor Technologies is an Equal Opportunity Employer, providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, genetic information, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, compensation, training, promotion, transfer, leaves of absence, and termination.
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