Cybersecurity Engineer – SecDevOps

Over the last 20 years, Ares’ success has been driven by our people and our culture. Today, our team is guided by our core values – Collaborative, Responsible, Entrepreneurial, Self‑Aware, Trustworthy – and our purpose to be a catalyst for shared prosperity and a better future. Through our recruitment, career development and employee‑focused programming, we are committed to fostering a welcoming and inclusive work environment where high‑performance talent of diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives can build careers within this exciting and growing industry.

Job Family:
Cybersecurity Engineering

Reports to:

Principal, Cybersecurity Engineering Manager

Direct Reports:
None

We’re looking for a Sec Dev Ops ‑focused Security Engineer who enjoys embedding security into the software delivery lifecycle and partnering across development, operations, and security teams. In this role, you’ll help build secure‑by‑default tooling, automate security controls, and design scalable guardrails that make secure engineering easy. Whether your background is traditional or non‑traditional, if you’re passionate about automation, cloud security, and enabling developers, we encourage you to apply.

We’re seeking someone who is excited to bring an automation‑first mindset and who knows how to balance developer needs with risk‑informed pragmatism. You will bridge security, dev, and ops cultures by translating between devs who want speed, security teams who want safety, and ops teams who want stability. We value diverse backgrounds, perspectives, and experiences, and we are committed to building a team where everyone feels they belong.

We especially encourage candidates from under‑represented communities in cybersecurity and technology to apply. Our interview process focuses on problem‑solving ability, practical skills, and collaborative mindset.

You will help advance our automation‑first engineering strategy by designing and maintaining the foundational systems that enable secure, reliable, and scalable software delivery across the organization.

• Design, operate, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines using modern tooling to enable rapid, consistent, and high‑quality software delivery.
• Automate build, test, and deployment workflows to reduce manual effort and improve engineering velocity.

• Use Terraform, Cloud Formation, or similar IaC technologies to define and manage cloud infrastructure in a scalable, repeatable, and version‑controlled manner.
• Ensure infrastructure is provisioned reliably and consistently through code‑driven automation.

• Leverage tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet to automate system configuration and maintain standardized environments across development, staging, and production.
• Ensure configuration drift is minimized and environments remain aligned with security and compliance requirements.

• Build and maintain containerized application patterns using Docker.
• Utilize Kubernetes (or equivalent orchestration platforms) to deploy, scale, and operate containerized workloads in a resilient, automated fashion.

• Develop automation using Python, Bash, Power Shell, or similar languages to eliminate repetitive tasks and improve operational efficiency.
• Create custom tooling that supports engineering workflows, observability, and security automation.

• Implement and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems—leveraging tools such as Splunk—to ensure environment health, availability, and performance.
• Develop proactive detection mechanisms to identify and remediate issues before they impact operations.

• Use Git to manage source code, configuration, and infrastructure artifacts while promoting strong branching, pull request, and code review practices.
• Help teams adopt workflows that enhance collaboration and code quality.

• Work with Azure…