Senior DevSecOps Consultant (Azure / Secrets Management)
Remote · United States
Job Summary
Lead a remote, short-term DevSecOps consulting engagement focused on establishing secure secrets management patterns, strengthening application security practices, and creating repeatable DevSecOps standards across a modern Azure-based environment. Serve as a trusted advisor and hands-on technical leader, assessing current-state practices, identifying security gaps, designing future-state patterns, and implementing foundational security controls. Responsibilities include designing and implementing secure secrets management patterns leveraging Azure Key Vault and Managed Identities, developing a secure Python-based framework to standardize secrets handling, providing architectural guidance for extending patterns across Python, .NET, SQL Server, and future workloads, establishing CI/CD/SDLC security controls and governance, troubleshooting deployment and security issues, creating architecture documentation and reusable playbooks, and coaching internal teams to accelerate adoption. This is a remote 1099 consulting engagement anticipated to last 6 weeks with potential to extend further.
Required Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in DevSecOps, Cloud Architecture, Application Security, Platform Engineering, or related disciplines
- Strong experience designing and implementing enterprise secrets management solutions
- Hands-on experience with Azure Key Vault, Managed Identities, and Azure-native security patterns
- Strong Azure architecture experience, including secure application integration and cloud security best practices
- Experience designing and implementing secure application development and deployment patterns
- Strong Python development experience with the ability to design and implement reusable security frameworks and application patterns
- Working knowledge of .NET application architectures and secure application integration practices
- Experience designing and implementing DevSecOps controls within CI/CD pipelines and software delivery workflows
- Experience with Azure DevOps and modern source control and deployment practices
- Experience implementing secret scanning, security validation, and secure deployment controls within software delivery pipelines
- Experience troubleshooting complex deployment, networking, authentication, and security issues across cloud-native application environments
- Ability to assess existing environments, identify gaps, and develop practical remediation plans
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence senior technical stakeholders and engineering leadership
- Preferred Experience: Experience modernizing DevSecOps practices from Azure DevOps to GitHub-based workflows
- Experience working within highly regulated or security-sensitive environments
- Familiarity with application security assessment methodologies and secure coding practices
- Experience creating enterprise architecture standards, technical playbooks, and reusable implementation patterns
- Experience leading consulting engagements involving security transformation initiatives
Additional Requirements
- Must reside in the United States
- Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future
- Must pass a background check
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