DevSecOps & Supply Chain Security Consultant Role Summary • Seeking a US Person with 10+ years of experience in secure software delivery, CI/CD and software supply-chain security. • The role covers secure SDLC, pipeline architecture and access, build provenance, artifact signing and promotion, SBOM/VEX/CSAF, dependencies, secrets, SAST/DAST, containers, IaC, vulnerability governance and regulatory evidence. • The consultant will validate source-to-release traceability, tamper resistance, SBOM accuracy, security gates, exceptions and remediation; produce audit-ready findings, release-readiness and residual-risk conclusions; and recommend finding-specific work. CRA, regulated-product and stakeholder-reporting experience is highly preferred. Key Responsibilities • Assess software supply chain security, SDLC maturity, SBOM governance, CI/CD pipeline controls, secrets management, logging/auditability, and vulnerability management to support lifecycle security evaluation and compliance traceability. • Review SDLC processes, tooling, and secure development practices • Assess software supply chain security, including SCA, SBOM accuracy/completeness, dependency governance, and third-party risk • Evaluate CI/CD pipeline security, artifact integrity, and secure release controls • Review secrets management across development, build, deployment, and operational environments • Assess logging, auditability, and security event traceability controls • Evaluate vulnerability management, remediation tracking, and patch governance processes • Support lifecycle security assessment, compliance evidence mapping, and traceability • Contribute to assessment reporting, remediation guidance, and release governance reviews • Validate source-to-release traceability, build provenance, tamper resistance, artifact signing and promotion controls, SBOM accuracy, security gates, exceptions, remediation decisions, release-readiness conclusions and residual-risk positions. • Produce audit-ready findings, release-readiness reporting, residual-risk conclusions, stakeholder-ready executive communication and recommendations for finding-specific follow-up work. • Assess pipeline architecture and access, build-agent and CI/CD runner security, container and registry controls, infrastructure-as-code and pipeline-as-code security, policy-as-code implementation and automated security-gate effectiveness. Required Skills & Experience Mandatory: • Strong understanding of DevSecOps and secure software delivery practices • Experience with SBOM frameworks (CycloneDX, SPDX) and SCA tooling • Familiarity with CI/CD security controls and artifact integrity validation • Experience with vulnerability management and dependency governance programs • Understanding of lifecycle security, auditability, and compliance evidence requirements • Experience with secrets management and secure release governance • SBOM Analysis (CycloneDX, SPDX, VEX/CSAF) • Artifact Integrity • SAST, DAST, Dependency & Secrets Scanning • Vulnerability Management & Remediation Governance • Secrets Management • Compliance Evidence & Audit Traceability • CRA / Regulatory Security Assessments • Syft and related SBOM tools • Secure Release Governance & Security Controls Validation • Build provenance and software-delivery traceability • Artifact signing, verification and tamper testing • Container, registry, build-agent and CI/CD runner security • Infrastructure-as-Code and pipeline-as-code security • Signing-key, certificate and HSM lifecycle controls • SBOM generation and binary-to-SBOM reconciliation • Open-source and third-party dependency governance • EOL/EOS and patch-lifecycle governance • Security exception and release-risk governance • Pipeline policy-as-code and automated security gates • Vulnerability metrics and release-readiness reporting • NIST SSDF and secure software supply-chain practices • Supplier security and software-acquisition assessments • Tools such as Syft, Grype, Trivy, Gitleaks, Dependency-Track, OpenSSL, Cosign, Sigstore, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins and Azure DevOps • US Citizen or Green Card holder (US Person) Good to have: • Experience participating in CRA or regulated product security, or compliance-driven cybersecurity assessments • Experience participating in engagement related to export-controlled environments • Familiarity with SLSA or modern software supply chain security practices • Strong documentation skills Preferred Certifications • CSSLP, Certified DevSecOps Professional or any other relevant product-security credentials Years of Required Experience • 10+ years in secure CI/CD pipeline setup, governance and controls validation, including setting up, maintaining and validating Secure CI/CD pipelines across different types of technology stacks. • 2+ years of hands-on SBOM analysis experience.