Role: DevOps Engineer — Infrastructure & Security
Location: Charlotte, NC (Hybrid, atleast 2 days onsite)
About The Role
We're looking for a DevOps Engineer who can help lead our infrastructure-as-code and CICD deliverables for the client project and raise the bar on security across the program. You'll design and maintain Terraform modules consumed by multiple teams, build secure CI/CD pipelines, and ensure every provisioned resource follows least-privilege principles. You'll work within HCP Terraform using VCS-driven workflows and help shape how the team adopts AI-assisted development tooling responsibly.
## What You'll Do
- Design, build, and maintain reusable Terraform modules with clear interfaces, versioning, and documentation so other teams can self-serve infrastructure safely
- Manage and optimize HCP Terraform workspaces using VCS-driven workflows — including workspace design, variable sets, run triggers, and policy enforcement
- Provision and manage cloud resources (primarily AWS) following least-privilege access patterns and security best practices
- Manage secrets and sensitive configuration using HashiCorp Vault and/or AWS Secrets Manager
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions) with proper gating, scanning, testing, and promotion workflows that integrate with HCP Terraform's VCS-driven run model
- Conduct security reviews of infrastructure code and pipeline configurations
## What You Bring
- 5+ years of hands-on Terraform experience, including writing modules with proper state management, remote backends, and provider configuration
- Hands-on Experience with HCP Terraform (Terraform Cloud), specifically VCS-driven workflows — workspace configuration, speculative plans on PRs, run approvals, and managing workspace variables/variable sets
- Experience with HCP Terraform's private registry for publishing and consuming internal modules
- Strong understanding of AWS IAM — policies, roles, trust relationships, permission boundaries, and service control policies
- Hands-on Experience with at least one secrets management platform: HashiCorp Vault or AWS Secrets Manager
- Solid understanding of OIDC and federated identity — how trust is established, token exchange, and practical application in CI/CD and cloud access
- Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines in GitHub Actions or GitLab CI/CD, including environment promotion, approval gates, and artifact management
- Security-first mindset — you default to deny, scope permissions tightly, and can articulate why
- Hands-on Experience using AI coding assistants (Amazon Q, Kiro, GitHub Copilot, or similar) with a clear understanding of when to trust, verify, and override AI-generated output
- Commitment to human-in-the-loop practices: code review, manual approval gates for production, and treating AI output as a draft — never as the final word
### Nice to Have
- Experience with Sentinel within HCP Terraform
- Knowledge of infrastructure testing tools
- Contributions to internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure tooling
## How We Work
- Infrastructure changes are driven through VCS — a push or PR triggers speculative plans and runs in HCP Terraform, with peer review required before apply
- AI tools accelerate our work, but every change is reviewed by a human before merging
- We treat security as a shared responsibility, not a gate at the end
- We document architectural decisions and keep runbooks current
- We prefer simple, maintainable solutions over clever ones
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