Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Denver, Colorado, United States

ALTEN Technology USA is an engineering company helping clients bring groundbreaking ideas to life—from advancing space exploration and life-saving medical devices to building autonomous electric vehicles. With 3,000+ experts across North America, we partner with leading companies in aerospace, medical devices, robotics, automotive, commercial vehicles, EVs, rail, and more.

As part of the global ALTEN Group—57,000+ engineers in 30 countries—we deliver across the entire product development cycle, from consulting to full project outsourcing.

When you join ALTEN Technology USA, you'll collaborate on some of the world's toughest engineering challenges, supported by mentorship, career growth opportunities, and comprehensive benefits. We take pride in fostering a culture where employees feel valued, supported, and inspired to grow.

As a Sr DevSecOps Engineer you will be responsible for:

· Defining and owning the DevSecOps architecture and roadmap for embedded capital equipment platforms, including CI/CD pipelines, build infrastructure, security automation, release evidence, and long-term maintainability.

· Developing and maintaining secure embedded platform software, build infrastructure, and reusable automation capabilities.

· Creating and supporting Yocto-based embedded Linux distributions, BSP software, device drivers, hypervisors, and platform-level OS components.

· Establishing secure software supply chain practices, including SBOM generation, SOUP/OTS component tracking, license awareness, vulnerability monitoring, end-of-support tracking, and remediation workflows.

· Developing reusable CI/CD templates and pipeline controls for static analysis, software composition analysis, unit test automation, artifact signing, provenance tracking, cybersecurity evidence capture, and release readiness.

· Leading threat modeling and cybersecurity risk analysis for embedded platform components, including asset identification, attack surface analysis, exploitability assessment, security controls, and traceability to risk mitigations.

· Driving CVE intake, enrichment, asset mapping, triage, risk scoring, remediation planning, validation, and reporting in partnership with Product Security, SWQA, Systems, and program teams.

· Designing and implementing secure boot, firmware signing, cryptographic configuration, key/certificate lifecycle support, authenticated update mechanisms, and secure device communication patterns.

· Defining runtime security monitoring requirements and supporting post-market cybersecurity monitoring and vulnerability response workflows.

· Reviewing reported anomalies, assessing cybersecurity impact, and supporting incident-response activities as needed.

· Supporting regulatory submissions and audits by ensuring cybersecurity, software lifecycle, and DevSecOps evidence is complete, traceable, reproducible, and aligned with internal quality system expectations.

· Defining platform-level OS and BSP maintenance strategies, including Linux kernel support, Yocto release planning, driver update strategy, patchability, and security update governance across the product lifecycle.

· Collaborating with external vendors and internal partners to evaluate security tooling, embedded Linux support models, vulnerability intelligence, penetration testing outputs, and long-term maintenance approaches.

· Providing technical leadership and mentoring to software engineers, DevOps engineers, and platform teams on secure coding, build automation, vulnerability handling, and regulated software development practices.

· Partnering with product teams to define platform capabilities that are reusable, secure, testable, and scalable across multiple capital equipment programs.

Technologies & Tools:

· AMD Zynq and Zynq UltraScale+ SoCs, NVIDIA ORIN, SafeRTOS, FreeRTOS

· Yocto-based embedded Linux package development

· Embedded hypervisors, Linux device drivers, BSPs, and boot flows

· Custom build systems and CI/CD pipelines

· Docker, Snyk, SonarQube, and software composition analysis tools

· Static analysis, software composition analysis, artifact signing, and vulnerability management tools

· Python, Bash, and Go

· Atlassian tools including Bitbucket, Jira, Bamboo, and Confluence

· GitHub and GitLab

· Networking security, secure boot, firmware signing, and secure update technologies

Qualifications:

· Strong experience in embedded Linux platform development for regulated, safety-critical, or high-reliability products.

· Hands-on experience with AMD/Xilinx SoC-based embedded systems, including AMD Zynq 7000 series, Zynq UltraScale+, Kria SOM, and the NVIDIA ORIN platform. Experience with real-time operating systems such as SafeRTOS and QNX Neutrino.

· Experience with Yocto, BSPs, OS layers, kernel configuration, boot flows, device drivers, and embedded platform security.

· Experience developing or governing DevSecOps practices in regulated medical device, safety-critical, aerospace, automotive, or industrial control environments.

· Strong understanding of FDA cybersecurity expectations, IEC 62304, ISO 14971, ISO 13485, SOUP/OTS software management, SBOM practices, and software lifecycle evidence generation.

· Experience implementing security automation in CI/CD pipelines, including SAST, SCA, container scanning, artifact signing, build reproducibility, traceability, and vulnerability reporting.

· Strong experience with threat modeling, vulnerability assessment, cybersecurity risk analysis, and secure-by-design architecture reviews.

· Experience with CVE triage methods that include exploitability, asset exposure, configuration applicability, runtime reachability, known exploited vulnerabilities, and remediation validation.

· Ability to collaborate across hardware, software, systems, product security, quality, regulatory, program management, and product management stakeholders.

· Demonstrated ability to influence cross-functional engineering and leadership decisions without direct authority.

· Experience defining reusable platform practices across multiple products, programs, hardware variants, or software release branches.

· Strong debugging, problem-solving, and root-cause analysis skills.

· Strong technical communication skills with the ability to translate cybersecurity and DevSecOps risks into actionable engineering and leadership decisions.

Salary Range: $125k-$150k

The actual salary offered is dependent on various factors including, but not limited to, location, the candidate's combination of job-related knowledge, qualifications, skills, education, training, and experience

Mandatory for all remote/hybrid and/or California, District of Columbia, Hawaii, Colorado, Maryland, Connecticut, Illinois, Minnesota, Vermont, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, Washington State & Cincinnati, Ohio, Jersey City, New Jersey, Toledo, Ohio based roles.

Note: Due to the nature of the work, only US Persons (citizens or permanent residents) need apply for this position.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, genetic information, or pregnancy.

Compliance Notice: Alten USA is a federal contractor subject to the requirements of the Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) and Executive Order 11246. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and consider all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status.

Drug Screening Requirement: As a federal contractor, Alten USA maintains a drug-free workplace. All candidates selected for employment will be required to successfully complete a pre-employment drug screening as a condition of hire.