Hire freelance and contract DevSecOps engineers worldwide

Hire a freelance DevSecOps engineer when you want to secure your delivery pipeline, when you're preparing for an audit or certification, or when vulnerabilities are being found late. They're also useful for securing a cloud or Kubernetes setup, for introducing scanning and secrets management, and for adding security skills to a DevOps team.

DevSecOps engineers vary by background and focus. Some come from DevOps and have added security, others from security and have added automation. Some focus on application and pipeline security, others on cloud and container security or compliance. For general pipelines and releases, a DevOps engineer may fit better, and a cloud engineer covers cloud build and migration. Match their experience to your stack, risk profile and compliance needs.

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Look for a mix of security and automation skills:

• Solid DevOps and CI/CD experience
• Application security testing, such as SAST, DAST and dependency scanning
• Cloud and container security, including Kubernetes
• Secrets management and identity and access management
• Infrastructure as code security and policy as code
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks relevant to you, such as SOC 2 or ISO 27001
• Threat modeling and risk-based prioritization
• Ability to coach developers without blocking delivery

Useful questions to ask before you book:

1. Which pipelines and environments have you secured, and what changed as a result?
2. How do you add security checks without slowing teams down?
3. Which security tools do you use, and how do you handle false positives?
4. How do you manage secrets and access?
5. How do you secure containers, Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure?
6. How do you support audits and compliance requirements?
7. How do you run threat modeling with developers?
8. How do you respond to a vulnerability or security incident?

The cost of a freelance DevSecOps engineer depends mainly on seniority, tools and cloud platform, compliance requirements, the scale of the environment, and location. Freelancers set their own day rates, which you can see on their YunoJuno profile before you make contact.

For benchmarks, see YunoJuno's Contractor Rates Report, built from rates data on projects booked through the platform. For what it costs to use YunoJuno itself, see the pricing page.

Post a brief or search the network, and book a freelance DevSecOps engineer based in or outside your own country. YunoJuno supports payments in 165+ countries and assesses worker classification for every engagement, so you can engage independent talent without managing the compliance work yourself. That includes US contractor compliance for 1099 and W-2 engagements and IR35 status determinations in the UK, as part of YunoJuno's wider global compliance coverage.

It is also fast. Onboarding takes under 5 minutes, worker classification around 15 minutes, and a contract can be in place in under 24 hours. YunoJuno also provides misclassification indemnification, adding protection if a classification is ever challenged.