Staff DevSecOps Specialist

About AlayaCare
At AlayaCare, we’re more than just a fast-growing SaaS company, we’re a team of people passionate about transforming home healthcare. Our cloud-based platform empowers care providers around the world to deliver better outcomes for their clients.
With 550+ employees across Canada, the US, Australia, and Brazil, we’re united by a shared mission and a strong culture of transparency, growth, and human connection. Whether you're early in your career or a seasoned expert, AlayaCare offers the opportunity to grow your impact, your skills, and your career.
About the Role
We are seeking a Staff DevSecOps Specialist to join our Security team. Reporting to the Director, Information Security and Privacy, The Staff DevSecOps Specialist is a senior individual-contributor role driving the technical direction of AlayaCare’s security vaning practice. It is a builder's role at the level where the thing being built is not only tooling but the technical standards and architecture other engineers design against, from our cloud and platform controls to the review practices those designs pass through and the automation that lets a small team protect a large surface.
As a member of AlayaCare's Information Security & Privacy team, you will drive the technical direction of how security is engineered across Site Reliability Engineering, Developer Experience, and platform teams, and carry it through in code. You will own the architecture and operation of our edge security on Cloudflare, lead the Wiz cloud security program across our AWS and Kubernetes estate, define how security is enforced in CI/CD alongside DevX, build the security tooling and detections the rest of the organization runs on, and secure the agents and agentic pipelines our developers are shipping.
You will lead through design, code, and influence rather than through reporting lines: the technical direction you shape is the direction you build. It is a rare scope for an individual contributor, spanning healthcare data, SOC 2, HIPAA, and Canadian privacy obligations across a platform where one engineer's work is visible everywhere.
What You’ll Do
Contribute to defining the multi-year technical roadmap for security engineering at AlayaCare, and personally build its most difficult components: the security tooling, services, and automation the organization depends on, and the engineering standards and review practices for security-owned code.
Own the architecture and operation of Cloudflare edge security: WAF rule strategy, custom rules, rate limiting, bot management, and DDoS posture, tuned against real production traffic with SRE and product teams.
Own cloud and container security architecture with SRE, and the Wiz program that verifies it: AWS identity boundaries, network segmentation, secrets management and encryption patterns; Kubernetes cluster hardening, admission control, image supply chain and runtime posture; and prioritized remediation and posture metrics across AWS accounts.
Establish preventive guardrails in code: policy-as-code in Terraform and CI so entire classes of misconfiguration become impossible rather than detected, and, with Developer Experience, CI/CD security testing (SAST, SCA, secrets, container scanning) enforced at a signal-to-noise bar developers accept.
Own the vulnerability management program as a system: intake across all sources, exploitability-based prioritization, SLAs, automation of the toil, and reporting to engineering and executive stakeholders.
Lead detection engineering in support of the SOC, including detection-as-code practices and log source onboarding, and serve as senior technical lead during security incidents affecting cloud and application infrastructure, owning the engineering follow-through that prevents recurrence.
Lead threat modelling and security design reviews for major architectural changes, and serve as the technical escalation point within security engineering for complex design and implementation decisions.
Secure how AlayaCare builds with AI: threat model the agents, agentic workflows, and pipelines our developers ship; set guardrails for tool use, non-human identity, secrets, and data access; and define the review standards those systems are designed against.
Build the technical control automation that makes SOC 2, HIPAA, and customer assurance continuous, partnering with GRC so evidence is a by-product of how systems run.
Mentor and level up engineers inside and outside the security team, growing the practice beyond what one person can operate, and represent our security engineering approach to customers and auditors when technical depth is required.
What You Bring to the Team
Bachelor’s or advanced degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, Information Technology, or a related technical field.