Senior Configuration Engineer, Product AppSec

Veeam is the Data and AI Trust Company, specializing in helping organizations ensure their data and AI are fully understood, secured, and resilient to enable the acceleration of safe AI at scale. As the market leader in both data resilience and data security posture management, Veeam is built for the convergence of identity, data, security, and AI risk. Headquartered in Seattle with offices in more than 30 countries, Veeam protects over 550,000 customers worldwide, who trust Veeam to keep their businesses running. Join us as we go fearlessly forward together, growing, learning, and making a real impact for some of the world’s biggest brands. #LI-REMOTE #LI-JC2 About the Role We're looking for a Senior Configuration Engineer to lead the strategy, architecture, and operational maturity of enterprise software release management and delivery automation across cloud-native and enterprise product environments. You'll work at the intersection of Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, Security, QA, and Product teams to improve release orchestration, deployment automation, artifact management, and software supply chain integrity. This role defines release engineering standards, modernizes CI/CD delivery practices, and establishes scalable governance frameworks that support both traditional enterprise software and modern cloud and AI-based products. Due to the fact that this position will deal with highly sensitive data and will support federal customers, we are only considering US citizens at this time. Security clearance is not required , but there is a slight chance it maybe requested in the future What You’ll Do Architect and lead scalable release orchestration workflows across cloud-native, SaaS, enterprise, and AI product environments, including quality gates and automated validation throughout the SDLC Design and maintain enterprise CI/CD platforms, implementing progressive delivery strategies such as blue/green deployments, canary releases, and phased rollouts Lead enterprise software packaging and artifact lifecycle management, including SBOM generation, artifact signing, provenance, dependency validation, and binary integrity verification Establish release governance frameworks with defined KPIs — deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR, and lead time — driving operational stability and incident reduction Embed DevSecOps principles into release workflows, collaborating with Security Engineering to integrate scanning, policy enforcement, compliance automation, and vulnerability validation Serve as the technical authority for release engineering standards, mentoring engineers and guiding teams on release automation, deployment strategies, and CI/CD best practices Communicate release readiness, operational risks, and deployment strategies to both technical and executive stakeholders Technologies You’ll Work With CI/CD platforms: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD IaC and automation: Terraform, Ansible, cloud-init, Bash, PowerShell, Python Artifact management: JFrog Artifactory, Azure Artifacts, container registries Cloud: Azure (primary), including CIS Azure Foundations and Azure networking and identity management Security platforms: Wiz, Defender for Cloud, Checkmarx, Sentinel Containerization: Docker, Kubernetes What You’ll Bring 8+ years of experience in Release Engineering, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or SRE Demonstrated experience leading architecture of release and artifact management platforms at enterprise scale, including artifact signing, supply chain integrity, and secrets management 3+ years managing Azure and Azure DevOps environments Strong proficiency with Terraform, Ansible, cloud-init, Bash, and GitOps for infrastructure automation Track record of technical leadership: mentoring senior engineers, leading cross-team initiatives, and driving organization-wide release practices Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience Bonus Skills Experience in regulated or complia…