Director of DevSecOps

About SEON:

Are you a technically skilled, hands-on leader who’s passionate about providing the most advanced automation solutions to global teams of software engineers? Join us at SEON and explore the opportunity to join a world-class research and development organization that is passionate about creating incredible experiences for our software engineers. Those great experiences ensure we can deliver exceptional solutions to the customers we are obsessed with!

SEON provides an API-first solution that helps our customers (many of the world's leading providers of digital experiences in financial services, insurance, entertainment, etc) defend their customers from Fraud and Financial Crimes. With over 250 Fraud Fighters across four global offices (Austin, Budapest, London, and Jakarta), our goal remains unwavering: to make the internet safe for businesses and customers to transact. Our achievements, including a record-breaking Series B funding round and recognition in TechCrunch, have led to recognition as the World’s quickest-growing fraud prevention company. We take pride in our rapid growth and mission to democratize fraud-fighting while empowering the best online businesses. Join us in our journey to make the internet safer for everyone.

What You’ll Do:

As the Director of DevSecOps at SEON, you will be responsible for the ownership, security, and optimization of the technology ecosystem that supports our global engineering teams. In this role, you will

• Lead teams in adopting modern design patterns that are cloud-first, security-first, and supported by innovative integrations with systems
• Develop deployment standards, reusable interfaces, and orchestration workflows to streamline processes and integrate cloud services effectively
• Provide technical guidance to the leadership team on cloud best practices, cost optimization, and security throughout the organization
• Create comprehensive documentation for automation processes, workflows, and outstanding enablement programs and best practices
• Build and maintain CI/CD building blocks and shared libraries proactively for app and development teams to enable faster build and deployment
• Create plug-and-play/reusable solutions and patterns for CI/CD pipelines
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure automation, ensuring high availability, reliability, scalability, and performance
• Design action plans to address CI/CD platform, tools, and solutions’ shortcomings and difficulties
• Create, develop, and implement solutions to address infrastructure and security requirements
• Write scripts and deploy code to automate repetitive tasks, integrate cloud services, and enhance cloud automation capabilities
• Integrate security controls and best practices into the automation process to ensure a secure cloud environment
• Ensure incident tracking tools are updated in accordance with established industry best practices, gather all essential data and document any discoveries and concerns
• Identify technical concerns and problems, assess them, and offer prompt solutions and/or escalation
• Monitor and manage application performance and service quality, including initial troubleshooting, identification of root causes, and issue through resolution
• Stay updated on DevSecOps trends and apply continuous improvement models across deployment processes and tooling
• Establish execution plans, manage risks, and oversee solution delivery
• Ensure all changes follow the defined change control process with proper approvals documented
• Provide clear and timely updates to senior management, escalate issues, and ensure adherence to change control processes
• Provide leadership, vision, and direction for staff within the DevSecOps and QA teams
• Manage the DevSecOps budget, with an ongoing focus on personnel, vendor, and capital expenditures
• Work closely with SEON leadership and cross functional teams, playing a key technical and resource management role in cross-functional SEON projects
• Define, track, and communicate relevant key performance metrics for the operations team to measure performance and contribution to goals and strategy
• Hire, train, and manage talent to ensure teams have the skills required to be successful 
• Manage vendor relationships for partner platforms and software services

What You Bring:

• 8+ years of software management experience in broad-based information systems, full life-cycle application development, and/or building enterprise applications
• 6+ years’ experience with DevSecOps technologies, cloud-based provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and troubleshooting  
• 5+ years of experience in Agile practices
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, GCP, Microsoft Azure, or another cloud service
• 5+ years of experience with various coding and scripting languages such as Bash, Python, PowerShell
• Experience using modern containerization software including Docker and Kubernetes (EKS preferred)
• Comprehensive technical expertise in a variety of DevSecOps toolkits, such as Jenkins, Artifactory, Jira, Terraform, Git/Version Control Software, or comparable technologies
• Knowledge of DevOps Automation (Terraform, Ansible, GitHub Actions)
• Ability to lead a constructive retrospective session for processes and tools
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, including experience interpreting data, sometimes with limited context and direction
• Demonstrated ability to communicate complex technical information in a condensed manner to various stakeholders verbally and in writing
• Working knowledge of data and reporting processes to provide the presentation layer for product-management-oriented KPIs
• Experience using, evaluating, and procuring tools used to support product management, development, and/or other business units (sales, marketing, etc.)
• Demonstrated expertise in strategic thinking, strong business acumen, and a highly creative problem solver

It’s a Plus If You Have:

• Proficiency with automation tools such as Ansible, Chef or Puppet 
• Familiarity with API Security, Container Security, and AWS Cloud Security
• Strong knowledge of observability tooling (eg. Prometheus, ELK, Grafana)
• Knowledge of ISO, GDPR, and CCPA Standards and Policies and the associated certification and audit processes
• Project Management experience 
• Experience with AWS cloud services at scale (AWS Organization, cross-account networking, permission management with SSO and IAM)
• Industry related certifications such as GSLC, GISF, GSEC, CISSP, AWS DevOps, AWS Security, and AWS Solution Architect

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and incentive compensation structure
• Hybrid work model
• Extensive Benefits package (Health, Dental, Vision, Disability, 401k w/ match, etc.)
• Best-in-class tech gear
• Immediate impact on a smart, growing, global team
• Access to continuous development tools & a strong coaching culture
• Employee stock ownership plan (ESOP)
• Generous vacation & leave policies
• Complimentary weekly language courses
• Weekly in-office lunch delivery budget

What’s Next:

Sounds good? Great, we can’t wait to hear from you! Want to learn more about what it’s like to work at SEON first?
👉 Here you go: https://careers.seon.io/

Diversity Statement:

SEON is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We celebrate differences and do not discriminate based on ethnicity, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or mental disability. Please let your recruiter know if you need reasonable adjustments to our recruitment process.