# DevSecOps Engineer- Latin America- Remote > Azumo · Buenos Aires, Argentina (Remote) · Full-time · Posted 2026-08-13 **Workplace:** remote ## Description 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 [](mailto:people@azumo.co)**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 ## Apply [Apply at Azumo](https://apply.workable.com/azumo/j/DE4D138B12/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)