Summary: Azumo seeks a highly technical DevSecOps Engineer / Security Solutions Lead to proactively strengthen the security posture of their platform, infrastructure, and AI-driven systems. Highlights: 1. Own and strengthen security for platform, infrastructure, and AI-driven systems 2. Proactive, operationally-focused role securing FinTech ecosystem 3. Collaborate across engineering and compliance for continuous resilience Azumo is looking for a highly technical and hands\-on **DevSecOps Engineer / Security Solutions Lead** to own and strengthen the security posture of our platform, infrastructure, and AI\-driven systems. This is a proactive, operationally\-focused role—not just policy work. You will actively secure systems, remediate vulnerabilities, and collaborate across engineering and compliance to ensure continuous resilience. Working in a remote\-first, high\-trust engineering culture, you will join us as we scale rapidly following our Series A funding to power the future of modern financial infrastructure. **Location:** Remote Latin America In this role, you will secure and improve the systems that power our FinTech ecosystem while also serving as a key representative of our security program during customer and partner due diligence processes. **Key Responsibilities****Security Engineering \& System Hardening** * Secure and harden cloud infrastructure, applications, APIs, internal systems, and operational workflows. · Implement and maintain security controls across production environments, CI/CD pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and internal tooling. * Work directly with engineering teams to remediate vulnerabilities and improve secure development practices. * Ensure encryption, secrets management, logging, monitoring, and access controls are properly implemented and continuously maintained. * Design and improve security architecture across cloud\-native and distributed systems. · Build scalable security processes that integrate directly into engineering and operational workflows. **Vulnerability Management \& Offensive Security** * Continuously identify, assess, prioritize, and remediate security vulnerabilities across infrastructure, applications, APIs, and operational systems. * Proactively search for weaknesses through vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, adversarial testing, threat modeling, manual security reviews * Coordinate remediation efforts across engineering and operations teams. · Validate fixes and ensure long\-term mitigation strategies are implemented. * Improve detection and prevention capabilities for emerging threats. * Help establish a culture of continuous security improvement and operational accountability. **AI Security \& Emerging Threat Protection** * Secure AI\-driven systems and automated agents against emerging threats including prompt injection, adversarial inputs, unauthorized or unintended actions, unsafe outputs, data leakage and exposure risks. * Design and implement guardrails and validation layers for AI\-generated actions. * Ensure AI systems safely handle untrusted inputs from IVRs, web systems, APIs, and human interactions. * Monitor AI system behavior for anomalies, abuse attempts, or unsafe decision\-making. * Partner with engineering teams to ensure AI systems are observable, auditable, bounded, and fail safely. * Help define operational and technical controls for responsible AI deployment. **Monitoring, Detection \& Incident Response** * Improve and maintain security monitoring, alerting, logging, and incident response capabilities. * Investigate suspicious activity, anomalies, and potential security incidents. * Lead or support incident response efforts, root cause analysis, and remediation planning. * Ensure operational visibility into system health, access patterns, and security events. * Recommend and implement preventative measures following incidents or security discoveries. **Compliance, Audit \& Risk Management** * Collaborate closely with Compliance and Operations teams to ensure security controls meet **SOC 2** requirements, **PCI** DSS requirements, Financial and consumer data security regulations. * Assist with audit preparation, evidence collection, security documentation, and control validation. * Help operationalize security controls so compliance is continuously maintained—not just audit\-driven. * Participate in risk assessments, control reviews, and remediation planning. * Ensure systems handling sensitive financial and consumer data align with regulatory and internal security requirements. **Customer \& Partner Security Engagement** * Participate directly in customer and partner due diligence processes. * Answer technical security questions from enterprise customers, banks and financial institutions, prospects and partners, auditors and third\-party assessors * Support and complete security questionnaires, RFPs, vendor risk assessments * Clearly communicate security architecture, operational controls, monitoring capabilities, and security practices. * Help build trust with prospects and accelerate enterprise partnerships through strong security leadership and communication. **Cross\-Functional Collaboration** * Work closely with Engineering, Product, Compliance, Operations, and Leadership teams to improve overall security posture. * Contribute to architecture reviews, security planning, engineering roadmaps, and operational processes. * Help embed security\-first thinking into engineering and operational culture. * Partner with teams to balance security, reliability, scalability, and business velocity. **Requirements** **Required Qualifications** * 5\+ years of hands\-on experience in security engineering, infrastructure security, application security, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, offensive security * Exceptional knowledge of the AWS ecosystem * Experience identifying and remediating vulnerabilities in production systems. * Working knowledge of compliance frameworks: SOC 2, PCI, and best practices for FinTech environments. * Self\-starter mindset: able to drive projects, make decisions, and prioritize ruthlessly in a fast\-moving environment. * Excellent communication skills with the ability to articulate complex systems to both engineering and business stakeholders. **Preferred Qualifications** * Experience securing AI/LLM\-powered systems or automated agents. * Familiarity with prompt injection attacks, adversarial AI techniques, AI guardrails and validation systems, behavioral anomaly detection * Experience with cloud security tooling, SIEM and observability platforms, penetration testing tools, endpoint security platform, infrastructure\-as\-code security * Prior experience in high\-growth startup environments and FinTech, banking or payments. * Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, AWS Security Specialty or similar **Benefits** **Company benefits include:** * Paid Time Off * Mentored Career Development * U.S. Holidays * USD Remuneration * Profit Sharing * Maternity Coverage * 100% Remote **About Azumo** Based in San Francisco, California, **Azumo** is an innovative software development firm specializing in **AI software development services**. We help companies of all sizes build intelligent applications by combining expertise in data, cloud, and **AI**. Our talented **AI developers** are trusted to deliver **Top AI Development services** in **Generative AI**, intelligent automation, and custom machine learning solutions. At **Azumo**, we believe in professional and personal growth. As a recognized **AI Development company**, we support our engineers in mastering the latest technologies and delivering **Top AI Development services** worldwide. Our culture emphasizes collaboration, continuous learning, and solving complex problems with modern **AI** solutions. We believe in giving back to our community and will volunteer our time to philanthropy, open\-source initiatives and sharing our knowledge. If you are qualified for the opportunity and looking for a challenge please apply online at Azumo/join\-our\-team or connect with us at people@azumo.co
Sofía Muñoz
MyJob · HR
Sofía Muñoz
MyJob · HR
