Allegiant

Principal Engineer, DevSecOps

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3 months ago
St. Paul, MN, USA or Las Vegas, NV, USAStaff+

Base Salary

$153k - $195k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Lead the two-engineer DevSecOps team through daily execution, planning, mentoring, technical reviews, and blocker removal.
  • Own the DevSecOps roadmap covering pipeline security, IaC policy enforcement, application security tooling, cloud security posture management, and agentic AI security governance.
  • Build and maintain production security scanning stages and enforcement gates in GitHub Actions pipelines.
  • Administer GitHub Advanced Security, including CodeQL query suites, secret scanning, Dependabot, and developer adoption campaigns.
  • Author and enforce custom Checkov policies for Terraform and drive organization-wide golden policy adoption.
  • Operate CNAPP tooling for cloud security posture, image scanning, and application security integration.
  • Manage Terraform-based security infrastructure across multi-account AWS environments using Control Tower, IAM, VPC, and Transit Gateway.
  • Integrate security tooling outputs with SIEM and SOAR platforms for alerting, triage, and automated response.
  • Generate compliance evidence for PCI-DSS, NIST, and CIS controls and assess acquired technology stacks against security standards.
  • Define and maintain security controls for agentic AI tooling, including MCP registries, AI gateway configurations, trust policies, and tool-use authorization.
  • Document architecture decisions, security policies, and operational runbooks while supporting SAFe planning and Jira hygiene.

Requirements

  • At least eight years of experience in information security.
  • At least eight years of experience supporting or implementing network security platforms and strategies.
  • Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
  • Production experience building and maintaining security scanning stages in CI/CD pipelines; GitHub Actions is required.
  • Hands-on administration of GitHub Advanced Security or equivalent in an organization with 50 or more repositories, with evidence of developer adoption.
  • Experience authoring and enforcing custom Checkov, Bridgecrew, tfsec, or Sentinel policies against Terraform codebases.
  • Deep production knowledge of AWS Control Tower, IAM including ABAC patterns, VPC architecture, Transit Gateway, and multi-account strategies.
  • Experience operating a CNAPP platform such as Palo Alto Cortex Cloud, Prisma Cloud, Wiz, or Orca.
  • Demonstrated delivery of security tooling that development teams adopted in production.
  • Experience securing agentic AI workflows, including MCP server governance, AI gateway configuration, prompt-injection mitigation, or tool-use authorization policies.
  • Ability to lead or mentor engineers through pairing, documentation, direct feedback, and technical guidance.
  • Technical certifications are optional; CISSP is optional.
  • Must be authorized to work in the United States and pass a criminal background check.

Benefits

  • Visa sponsorship is not available.
  • The role may require work during various shifts or days in a 24-hour situation, some travel, and reporting to the assigned work location during declared emergencies unless prohibited by law or order.
  • Reasonable accommodations may be made for individuals with disabilities.
  • Allegiant is an equal opportunity employer and welcomes veterans and individuals with disabilities.

Tech Stack

AWSGitHub ActionsTerraform

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About Allegiant

1,001-5,000 employees
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