Director, DevSecOps

Description & Requirements

Maximus Digital Solutions is seeking a highly experienced and visionary DevSecOps Director to lead and scale our DevSecOps practice.

This critical leadership role will be responsible for establishing and driving the strategy, implementation, and continuous improvement of our end-to-end software delivery pipeline, infrastructure automation, cloud operations, and site reliability engineering (SRE) principles.

The DevSecOps Director will build and mentor a high-performing team of DevSecOps engineers and collaborate closely with engineering, product, and security teams to ensure the efficient, reliable, and secure delivery of our innovative products and services.

You will champion the integration of security seamlessly throughout the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC), fostering a culture where security is a shared responsibility across development, operations, and security teams.

Your expertise will drive the adoption of automation, tooling, and best practices to ensure the delivery of secure, reliable, and high-performing software products.

This role requires a deep understanding of modern DevSecOps methodologies, cloud platforms, automation tools, and a proven track record of leading successful DevSecOps transformations in a dynamic and fast-paced environment.

This critical leadership role is based out of our Princeton, New Jersey, office location and is expected to be in the office 3 days per week to collaborate in-person with the team and other leaders.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Drive DevOps culture and develop best practices, standards, and desk-level procedures, and then educate and evangelize them across the Engineering organization; you are an information sharing leader.

- Simplify and standardize our CI/CD pipeline to allow us to continuously release new features while ensuring the stability of our existing systems.

- Continually evaluate new and emerging technologies to determine when they should be considered for integration into our environment; you are a thought leader.

- Provide security guidance and standards that pivot us to best-in-class in terms of security remediation and built-in security practices; you are obsessed with keeping us secure.

- Monitors team performance, provides timely and critical feedback on a regular cadence, establishes plans for improvement when necessary, and provides at least quarterly performance checkpoints with each direct report; you are invested in your people.

- Develop, maintain, and communicates DevSecOps related metrics to be shared organizationally and with senior leadership.

- Responsible for the team building, running, and supporting our DevOps CI/CD pipelined environment with an eye towards best-in class automation and security integration.

- Make key decisions on how to best evolve the platform technology, making smart decisions on where to pay down technical debt vs where to invest in new technology, always driving the platform ...