Principal Cloud DevSecOps Engineer

About the role

The Regeneron Genetics Center (RGC) IT team is looking for a passionate Principal Cloud DevSecOps Engineer with strong technical ability, communication, and collaboration skills. As the Principal Cloud DevSecOps Engineer, you will be responsible for the design and implementation of cloud infrastructure, automation, security controls, and compliance processes on AWS, supporting data, HPC, AI, and microservice platforms used by research scientists and bioinformaticians.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement infrastructure-as-code, automation scripts, and CI/CD pipelines supporting data, HPC, AI, and microservice platforms on AWS
• Embed security into system design — including IAM policies, network segmentation, secrets management, and compliance validation pipelines
• Design and implement tools to automate operational processes across RGC’s cloud and systems engineering platforms
• Support all audit related activities including providing evidence and remediation of findings for RGC’s cloud platform
• Develop and implement continuous delivery systems and CI/CD methodologies for RGC’s systems engineering platforms using both AWS services and GitHub Actions, EKS self-hosted runners, and SAST/DAST integration
• Recommend and deploy monitoring, metrics, and logging systems on RGC’s cloud engineering platforms
• Develop SOPs and configure cloud services to support compliance validation
• Provide technical support, training, and documentation to end users and research teams using RGC’s data, HPC, AI, and microservice platforms
• Serve as a technical point of contact for user-facing issues related to cloud platform, DevOps pipelines, security services, and solving problems in collaboration with internal IT teams
• Stay on top of the latest advances in cloud platforms and related security & compliance controls
• Provide technical guidance and mentorship for Lead and Senior DevSecOps engineers
• Interact with InfoSec and Privacy teams to define and iterate on security requirements, and implement them across the platform

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, or related field
• 8+ years of in-depth AWS services experience and relevant security certifications
• Hands-on experience designing and implementing cloud infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, and security controls
• Solid understanding of cloud security posture including IAM, network segmentation, secrets management, compliance validation, and security-by-design principles
• Experience supporting data, HPC, AI, or microservice platforms in a technical or user-facing capacity
• Knowledge of core AWS services EC2, EBS, S3, ELB, RDS, EKS, and IAM
• Tangible experience with Linux administration and automation of security controls and compliance validation
• Experience with monitoring tools like Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus

Qualifications

• Knowledge of DevSecOps practices and principles
• Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines
• Experience with AWS services and architecture
• Experience with security controls and compliance validation
• Experience with monitoring and logging systems
• Experience with automation and scripting
• Experience with cloud security and compliance

Skills

• Strong technical ability
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• Hands-on experience with AWS services
• Experience with DevSecOps practices and principles
• Experience with CI/CD tools and pipelines
• Experience with security controls and compliance validation
• Experience with monitoring and logging systems
• Experience with automation and scripting
• Experience with cloud security and compliance

Benefits

Regeneron offers a competitive and comprehensive total rewards package which may include, depending on country and role:

• Annual bonuses or other incentive plans
• Equity awards
• Pension or retirement benefits
• 401(k) company match
• Health and wellness programs
• Fitness centers
• Insurance benefits (e.g. medical, dental, vision, life and disability)
• Paid time off
• Family support benefits

Pay

$128,600.00 - $210,000.00 annually

Schedule

Full-time