Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Who are we?Smarkets: Predicting the Future of BettingSmarkets is a prediction market exchange for sports and political trading, having handled over $50 billion in volume since 2010. We're upending sports betting with the fairest prices, the best technology, and a superior customer experience, powered by attracting great people and building a high-performance environment where they thrive. We're looking for an atypical candidate with strong regulated-business experience to support our growing CFTC business.The TeamSecurity sits within Infrastructure and Engineering, protecting the distributed, real-time systems behind our trading engine. The team's remit spans our core products and our DCM/DCO entities, with a real regulatory dimension to the work, particularly around our CFTC-regulated business units. Alongside that regulatory scope, the focus is squarely on hands-on engineering: designing, building, and shipping the security tooling and controls that let engineering teams move fast safely.About the Role:This is a founding build. You'll stand up security engineering from the ground up through go-live and mature it as we scale, working within Infrastructure and Engineering teams to build the controls, automation, and guardrails our trading systems and regulated entities need.What you will do:Build the Foundations: Be part of a founding build, standing up security engineering from the ground up through go-live and maturing it as we scale, working within Infrastructure and Engineering teams.Design Guardrails: Design, build, and deploy security controls and guardrails across cloud-native platforms, including AI security solutions protecting customer-facing and internal products.Automate as Code: Automate security processes as code, embedding compliance and infrastructure-as-code checks into CI/CD pipelines without slowing down frequent shipping.Assess & Remediate: Conduct risk audits and assessments, translating findings into practical recommendations for engineerin