Hire DevSecOps and Dedicated Security Engineers — CERT-In Empanelled

A dedicated security engineer is one named engineer embedded in your team who owns the security of your pipelines, cloud accounts and release process — not a quarterly scan and a PDF. Techtweek Infotech places DevSecOps engineers, cloud security engineers and SOC engineers on monthly engagements, backed by a CERT-In empanelled practice and a 24/7 NOC. Our group runs PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 engagements from the audit side, so the evidence your assessor asks for is produced as the work happens rather than reconstructed the week before an audit.

This page covers what the engineer does, which roles are available, how the engagement is contracted, what it costs, and how quickly someone starts.

What a dedicated security engineer actually does

Secures the pipeline, not just the perimeter. SAST, dependency and container scanning wired into CI with tuned thresholds, signed artifacts, and a build that fails for a real reason rather than crying wolf until someone disables the gate.

Owns vulnerability management end to end. Findings triaged by exploitability and blast radius rather than by CVSS alone, routed to the team that can fix them, tracked to closure, with the exceptions documented and time-boxed.

Hardens the cloud estate. IAM least privilege, network segmentation, key and secret management, logging that survives an incident, and guardrails written as code so the next account inherits them.

Produces audit evidence as a by-product. Change approvals, access reviews, log retention, encryption posture, vendor risk — captured continuously. When the assessor asks who approved a production change in March, the answer is a query, not a scramble.

Responds when something happens. Detection tuned against your estate, runbooks that exist before the incident, and our NOC monitoring services covering the hours your engineer is asleep.

Roles in this family

Role	What they own
DevSecOps engineer	Pipeline security, supply-chain controls, policy as code, secure release
Cloud security engineer	AWS and Azure hardening, IAM, segmentation, key management, guardrails
SOC engineer	Detection engineering, alert triage, incident response, log pipeline
Compliance-facing security engineer	Evidence automation and control operation for PCI DSS, ISO 27001, SOC 2

If your need is an assessment rather than an embedded engineer, see vulnerability assessment and penetration testing or talk to us about a compliance engagement instead.

Why this team

CERT-In empanelled. A national-level security empanelment held by the firm, not a certification held by one employee.

AWS Advanced Tier Partner. The cloud your controls live in is the cloud we are accredited on.

Zero-finding audits. Our group has taken selected PCI DSS, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 engagements through with no findings. Engineers who have worked under that standard build differently.

We run what we secure. A 24/7 NOC and an operations practice sit behind the engineer, so detection has somewhere to go at 3am.

16+ years, 450+ projects, 94% job success. Verifiable, including a 100% job-success record over 5,900+ hours of public Upwork work.

How the engagement works

A master services agreement plus a statement of work naming the engineer, the scope, the overlap hours, the IP assignment and the notice period. We invoice monthly — in USD corp-to-corp for US clients, so there is no co-employment or payroll-tax question on your side; the same structure applies in the UK as a contracted-out service, with the supplier carrying the employment obligations. NDA and IP assignment are signed before day one.

Security engagements carry two extra conditions as standard: least-privilege access scoped in writing before the engineer starts, and a documented exit plan covering credential revocation, evidence handover and runbook transfer.

The Engineer Passport

Before you interview anyone, you receive a one-page dossier: named CV, certifications with verification links, background-check status and date, device and MDM posture, the exact systems and data the engineer needs access to, and the signed NDA and IP assignment. For a security role this is not marketing — it is the first control in the engagement.

How fast someone starts

About five working days. We keep a small bench in DevSecOps and cloud security specifically because these engagements are usually triggered by something with a date attached: an audit window, a failed assessment, a customer security questionnaire, or an incident.

What it costs

Role	Mid	Senior
DevSecOps engineer	$40–55/hr	$50–70/hr
Cloud security engineer	$42–58/hr	$52–75/hr
SOC engineer	$30–42/hr	$40–58/hr

US staffing agencies bill comparable security contractors well above these bands, before vendor-management fees. Full rate card within one business day of asking.

If the engineer is not the right fit

• Two-week paid pilot with an exit clause
• Free replacement inside 14 days, at our cost
• Named engineer, no substitution without your written agreement
• Four hours of overlap with your working day, written into the SOW

When a dedicated security engineer is the wrong answer

If you need a point-in-time assessment against a standard, buy an assessment. If you need someone to operate controls, close findings and keep evidence current between assessments, that is this role. A dedicated engineer is also the wrong shape if the work is genuinely under ten hours a month — say so on the call and we will scope it as a retainer instead.

What is the difference between DevSecOps and a security engineer?

DevSecOps engineers own security inside the software delivery pipeline — scanning, supply chain, policy as code, secure release. A cloud or infrastructure security engineer owns the running estate: IAM, network, keys, logging, detection. Most teams under 200 engineers need one person covering both, which is how we usually place them.

Do I need a dedicated security engineer for a team of 20 developers?

Usually yes, at part-time. Twenty developers produce more change than a quarterly scan can keep up with, and most compliance frameworks assume someone is operating the controls continuously. A part-time dedicated engineer is the common shape at that size; a full-time one becomes justified around 40 to 60 developers, or sooner if you are regulated.

Can the engineer help us pass SOC 2 or ISO 27001?

Yes. They operate the controls and produce the evidence continuously, which is the part most teams fail on. The audit itself is performed by an independent party — that separation is required, and we keep it.

How do you control what access the engineer has?

Access is scoped in writing before the engagement starts, granted least-privilege, reviewed during the engagement, and revoked under a documented exit plan. The scope is listed on the Engineer Passport you receive before the interview.

Start the conversation

Tell us what triggered the search — an audit, an assessment finding, a questionnaire, or an incident — and we will come back within one business day with engineer profiles, the rate card and a start date. Contact the team.

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