Knox Systems, Inc.
Knox is FedRAMP as a Service. SaaS apps achieve FedRAMP in 90 days, saving 90% in year 1 on Knox.
DevOps Security Engineer
Location
United States
Posted
12 days ago
Salary
$110K - $140K / year
4 yrs expEnglishAWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesTerraform
Job Description
• Serve as a security point of contact for external customers deploying into regulated cloud environments.
• Support customer onboarding by validating application security posture and deployment readiness for FedRAMP environments.
• Review customer security documentation, architectures, and deployment workflows against platform security requirements.
• Communicate security requirements, changes, incident escalations, and compliance questions clearly to customers.
• Implement and operate security controls required for FedRAMP Moderate/High, aligned to NIST SP 800-53.
• Support Continuous Monitoring (ConMon) activities, including vulnerability tracking, POA&M updates, and compliance reporting.
• Maintain and validate FedRAMP security architecture artifacts, including network diagrams, data flow diagrams, trust boundaries, and control flows.
• Validate deployed infrastructure and traffic patterns against approved FedRAMP architectures using flow logs and telemetry.
• Operate CrowdStrike as part of the core CNAPP enforcement and DevSecOps control.
• Integrate CrowdStrike CNAPP and detection signals into automated SOAR and CI/CD workflows to support preventative controls, response, and Continuous Monitoring (ConMon) for FedRAMP compliance.
• Coordinate external penetration testing efforts, including scoping, access, findings review, and remediation tracking.
• Use application security tools (e.g., Burp Suite) to support internal testing and remediation.
• Implement security and compliance gates in CI/CD pipelines to prevent non-compliant infrastructure or code from reaching production.
• Enforce policy-as-code guardrails for IAM, networking, logging, encryption, and endpoint protection using Terraform.
• Ensure CrowdStrike coverage, logging, and monitoring are enforced as deployment prerequisites.
• Prevent cloud exposure by enforcing network segmentation, approved ingress/egress paths, and least-privilege access.
• Detect and remediate configuration drift using CSPM and automated workflows.
• Secure Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads to approved security baselines.
Job Requirements
- 4+ years of experience in Cloud Security, DevSecOps, or Security Operations roles.
- Hands-on experience operating CrowdStrike Falcon in production environments.
- Direct experience supporting FedRAMP environments and implementing NIST SP 800-53 controls.
- Experience working directly with external customers on security onboarding or deployment readiness.
- Strong experience with Wiz or similar CSPM/CNAPP platforms.
- Proficiency with Terraform and CI/CD tooling (GitHub, GitHub Actions).
- Experience securing multi-cloud environments (AWS required; Azure and/or GCP preferred).
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
Benefits
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- Life & Disability
- Unlimited PTO
- Employee funded 401k plan