Team Lead, DevSecOps

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Leadership & Team Management

• Team Growth: Lead, mentor, and coach a team of DevSecOps engineers. Conduct performance reviews, manage career development paths, and foster a culture of high performance.
• Roadmap Ownership: Define the DevSecOps strategy and multi-quarter roadmap, aligning security initiatives with broader business and engineering goals.
• Stakeholder Management: Act as the primary point of contact for Engineering and Product leads to ensure security requirements are baked into the Product Discovery phase.

Security Architecture & Governance

• Policy-as-Code: Lead the implementation of organizational guardrails using tools like OPA (Open Policy Agent) or Kyverno to ensure compliance is automated across all environments.
• Secure Infrastructure: Oversee the design of secure cloud architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Kubernetes clusters, focusing on Zero Trust networking and identity-driven access.
• Vendor & Budget Management: Evaluate, procure, and manage third-party security vendors and tools (e.g., Snyk, Wiz, Cloudflare), ensuring maximum ROI and technical fit.

Operational Excellence

• Metric-Driven Security: Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) such as Mean Time to Remediate (MTTR) , vulnerability burn-down rates, and false-positive ratios.
• Incident Response: Serve as a technical escalation point for high-severity security incidents and lead the "Blameless Post-Mortem" process to drive systemic improvements.

Desired Skills and Experience

Experience

• 6+ years in Security, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles.
• 2+ years in a leadership capacity (Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Engineering Manager).
• Proven track record of scaling security practices in a cloud-native, high-growth environment.

Technical Proficiency

• Automation & IaC: Expert knowledge of Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, and CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI).
• Cloud & Containers: Deep understanding of Kubernetes security (RBAC, Network Policies, Admission Controllers) and cloud provider security services.
• Tooling: Experience implementing and tuning SAST, DAST, SCA , and Secret Management (HashiCorp Vault) at scale.
• Development: Proficiency in Python, Go, or TypeScript to build custom internal security tooling and integrations.

Soft Skills

• Pragmatism: Ability to balance "perfect security" with the "speed of business."
• Communication: Exceptional ability to translate complex technical risks into business impact for executive stakeholders.

Total Rewards

Our workforce deserves fair and competitive pay that meets them where they are. With scalable benefits, rewards, and perks, our total rewards programs reflect our commitment to inclusivity and access for all.

Some things you’ll enjoy

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location.
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country.
• The flexibility of remote work, including optional WeWork access.

Equal‑Opportunity Employer Statement

At Deel, we’re an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Deel is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to cultivating a diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects different abilities, backgrounds, beliefs, experiences, identities and perspectives.