Allegiant

Allegiant

Principal Engineer, DevSecOps

Las Vegas, NV · Principal

No sponsorship$153k-$195kDetected 57 days ago
Full-Stack DevelopmentGitAWSCloud PlatformsTerraformCI/CDGitHub ActionsDevOpsAgentic AINetwork SecuritySIEMSOARComplianceAgileJiraNegotiationFirewallLeadershipCommunicationMentoringPublic SpeakingPipeline Integrity

About the role

  • The role requires someone who has shipped security tooling that development teams actually adopted, not just evaluated or recommended.
  • This person reports to the Senior Manager of Information Security Engineering and works closely with DevOps, Full Stack Engineering, and Security Governance.

Responsibilities

  • Proven and demonstrable ability to lead at least two other team members in an official capacity towards specific DevSecOps outcomes.
  • Lead the DevSecOps team (two engineers) in daily execution, weekly syncs, and PI planning. Ensure stories are accurate, scoped, and deliverable.
  • Own and drive the DevSecOps roadmap across pipeline security, IaC policy enforcement, application security tooling, and cloud security posture management.
  • Architect and maintain security gates in GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines. Define when and how scans run, what blocks a merge, and how results route to developers.
  • Measure and report on developer adoption. • Maintain SAFe Agile practices.

Requirements

  • The principal engineer must have production experience across four disciplines simultaneously: application security, pipeline engineering, cloud infrastructure, and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) governance.
  • The role also requires working knowledge of securing agentic AI workflows, including MCP server governance, AI gateway configuration, and trust boundaries for tool-using AI systems.

Nice to have

  • Experience operating a cloud-native application protection platform (Palo Alto Cortex Cloud preferred, Prisma Cloud, Wiz, or Orca acceptable).
  • Must describe onboarding workflows, policy tuning, and integration with engineering teams.
  • Minimum eight (8) years experience in information security.
  • Minimum eight (8) years supporting / implementing network security platforms & strategies.
  • Preferred Requirements
  • Has administered GitHub Advanced Security (CodeQL, secret scanning, Dependabot) for an organization with active developer adoption metrics.
  • Has authored custom Checkov or equivalent IaC policies that enforced specific compliance or security outcomes in production pipelines.
  • Has operated a CNAPP platform (Palo Alto Cortex Cloud, Prisma Cloud, Wiz, or Orca) including onboarding, policy configuration, and integration with engineering workflows.

Skills

  • Operate and configure Palo Alto Prisma or Cortex (CNAPP) for cloud security posture, image scanning, and AppSec integration.
  • Integrate security tooling outputs into SIEM and SOAR for alerting, triage, and response workflows.
  • Mentor two mid-level engineers. Identify skills gaps, provide hands-on training, and review their work.
  • Operate and configure Cortex Cloud (CNAPP) for cloud workload protection, image scanning, and application security posture.

Compensation

  • $153k-$195k

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Must be authorized to work in the US as defined by the Immigration Act of 1986.
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