DevSecOps Engineer

About IMD

The International Institute for Management Development (IMD) has been pioneering leadership development for nearly 80 years. Founded by business for business, we are an independent university institute with Swiss roots and global reach. Operating from Lausanne with strategic hubs in Singapore, Shenzhen, and Cape Town, IMD works with 19,000+ executives from 120+ countries annually. Our 145,000+ alumni form a powerful global network.

Consistently ranked among the world's top business schools, IMD bridges cutting‑edge research with real‑world application to help leaders solve problems, scale solutions, and drive impact. Real Learning for Real Impact.

We are seeking a Dev Sec Ops  Engineer to join our IT Operations team and play a key role in shaping our software development lifecycle. In this role, you will design and implement modern CI / CD patterns, embed security across the pipeline, and collaborate closely with developers and architects to ensure solutions align with business and technical goals. You will help introduce new applications, optimize existing ones, and maintain reliable, secure, and scalable Dev Sec Ops  platforms.

By documenting processes, driving automation, and staying current with emerging practices, you will have a direct impact on the stability, security, and innovation of our enterprise systems.

At IMD, we are committed to innovation, excellence, and collaboration. This role offers a unique opportunity to contribute to cutting‑edge projects in custom development, cloud infrastructure, and AI applications, while ensuring the continuity of essential services that power our mission. If you are passionate about Dev Sec Ops , thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to grow your career in a forward‑thinking environment, we encourage you to apply.

• Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable, and efficient cloud architectures in Microsoft Azure, mapping business and technical requirements into cloud‑native solutions.
• Lead Dev Sec Ops  practices across the software development lifecycle, integrating security, compliance, automation, and observability.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) with Bicep and implement CI / CD pipelines for consistent, repeatable, and reliable deployments across environments.
• Embed security across the development lifecycle and Azure environment, leveraging tools like Defender for Cloud, securing CI / CD pipelines, and ensuring the safe use of AI applications such as Azure OpenAI.
• Evolve Dev Ops toward Platform Engineering, creating internal developer portals, building reusable components, shared libraries, and templates to accelerate development and ensure best practices in automation and security.
• Ensure availability, stability, performance, and cost efficiency of applications and environments by applying Fin Ops principles and monitoring observability, logging, and DORA metrics.
• Troubleshoot, identify, and resolve issues in CI / CD, Dev Sec Ops , and cloud platforms, designing action plans to address platform / tooling shortcomings.
• Leverage Azure OpenAI and Large Language Models (LLMs) to innovate and optimize solutions where appropriate.
• Collaborate with development teams, contractors, and vendors to align on architecture, resolve problems quickly, and continuously improve processes.
• Create and maintain clear documentation from high-level architecture diagrams to detailed operational procedures, while staying current with Azure and Dev Sec Ops  trends.

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science or a related field

• 5 years of relevant professional experience in cloud, Dev Ops (Git Hub, Azure), or software engineering roles.
• Proficiency in Dev Ops automation (Bicep, Terraform, Git Hub Actions) and scripting (Power Shell, Bash, or Python).
• Hands‑on experience with containerization (Docker, Azure Container Apps) and cloud‑native architectures.
• Strong knowledge of cloud security and compliance, including API and container security, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Policy, configuration / security management tools,…