Senior DevSecOps Consultant (Azure / Secrets Management)

Who We Are At Trility Consulting®, we’ve built a strong, remote-work culture where people thrive, grow, and support each other – earning us Great Place to Work® Certification. Headquartered in Central Iowa, we embrace flexible schedules and collaboration across geographically distributed teams serving clients from all corners of the United States and globally. We seek team members with the grit necessary to forge paths where none previously existed, to get back up when circumstances knock them down, to adapt to the changing needs of the client even when it is uncomfortable, and to deliver on our commitments. Candidates must respect and value people, recognize that over-communication is barely good enough, thrive on solving complex problems, have a passion for building teams, and know that delivering what a client actually values is more important than their own predispositions. They understand value proposition, love delivering value, and take pride in learning the expansive and ever-changing business of clients. Candidates are self-motivated and relentlessly working to become more today than they were yesterday. What You Will Do Trility Consulting is seeking a Principal DevSecOps Consultant to lead a short-term engagement focused on establishing secure secrets management patterns, strengthening application security practices, and creating repeatable DevSecOps standards across a modern Azure-based environment. In this role, you will serve as a trusted advisor and hands-on technical leader, partnering with engineering and architecture teams to assess current-state practices, identify security gaps, design future-state patterns, and implement foundational security controls. This work will include designing and implementing secure secrets management solutions, establishing application security standards, improving SDLC controls, and creating reusable guidance that can be adopted across multiple teams and applications. The ideal consultant combines enterprise architecture thinking with hands-on engineering expertise and is comfortable moving between technical implementation, security assessment, stakeholder discussions, and technical coaching. This is a remote 1099 consulting engagement anticipated to last 6 weeks with potential to extend further. Key Responsibilities Assess current application security, secrets management, and DevSecOps practices to identify risks, gaps, and improvement opportunities Design and implement repeatable secrets management patterns that can be adopted across multiple applications and teams Develop and implement secure application integration patterns leveraging Azure Key Vault, Managed Identities, and related Azure-native services Design and implement a secure Python-based framework or wrapper to standardize secrets handling across applications Provide architectural guidance for extending secure secrets management patterns across Python, .NET, SQL Server, and future application workloads Establish DevSecOps standards related to pipeline security, secret scanning, deployment controls, approval workflows, and secure software delivery practices Analyze application, platform, and pipeline logs to troubleshoot deployment, networking, authentication, and security-related issues that impact solution adoption and operational stability Establish DevSecOps standards related to pipeline security, secret scanning, deployment controls, approval workflows, and secure software delivery practices Evaluate current SDLC processes and recommend improvements to strengthen security, governance, and operational consistency Collaborate with engineering leadership and senior stakeholders to define practical implementation roadmaps and future-state architecture patterns Create architecture documentation, implementation guidance, standards, and reusable playbooks to support long-term adoption Demonstrate implemented solutions and provide coaching to internal engineering teams to accelerate adoption and self-sufficiency Qualifications 5+ years of experience in DevSecOps, Cloud Architecture, Application Security, Platform Engineering, or related disciplines Strong experience designing and implementing enterprise secrets management solutions Hands-on experience with Azure Key Vault, Managed Identities, and Azure-native security patterns Strong Azure architecture experience, including secure application integration and cloud security best practices Experience designing and implementing secure application development and deployment patterns Strong Python development experience with the ability to design and implement reusable security frameworks and application patterns Working knowledge of .NET application architectures and secure application integration practices Experience designing and implementing DevSecOps controls within CI/CD pipelines and software delivery workflows Experience with Azure DevOps and modern source control and deployment practices Experience implementing secret scanning, security validation, and secure deployment controls within software delivery pipelines Experience troubleshooting complex deployment, networking, authentication, and security issues across cloud-native application environments Ability to assess existing environments, identify gaps, and develop practical remediation plans Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to influence senior technical stakeholders and engineering leadership Preferred Experience Experience modernizing DevSecOps practices from Azure DevOps to GitHub-based workflows Experience working within highly regulated or security-sensitive environments Familiarity with application security assessment methodologies and secure coding practices Experience creating enterprise architecture standards, technical playbooks, and reusable implementation patterns Experience leading consulting engagements involving security transformation initiatives How We Put You First Trility’s culture is built upon the journey, character, and work ethic of our team members. We are a team of honorable and professional lifelong learners who work together to solve problems proactively. • Work remotely anywhere in the United States with flexible work hours • Sponsored and supported learning opportunities Job Requirements • Must reside within the United States • Must be authorized to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future • Must be able to pass a background check