DevSecOps Engineer

Metro Global Solution Center (MGSC) is the internal solution partner for METRO, an international wholesaler with operations in more than 30 countries. MGSC has locations in Pune (India), Düsseldorf (Germany) and Szczecin (Poland) and provides HR, Finance, IT, Strategy, Branding & Business operations support to 31 countries. The role focuses on embedding application security controls into CI/CD pipelines, supporting remediation of application security findings, conducting targeted code reviews, implementing security automations across applications and APIs, and performing threat modeling.

Responsibilities

Embed application security controls into CI/CD pipelines to provide accurate, actionable, and timely feedback to engineers; Support the investigation, remediation, and validation of application security findings including the management of exceptions and false positives; Conduct targeted code reviews in partnership with engineers and platform teams to identify security issues early and improve coding practices; Implement and maintain security controls, integrations, and automations required to ensure security and privacy by default across applications and their APIs; Perform threat modeling exercises to identify abuse cases, threat actors, and appropriate preventative and detective controls; Participate actively in the engineer community led by METRO Corporate Information Security to define best practices, align way-of-working, prioritize and execute on the needed activities across application and API platforms

Requirements

Application security experience identifying, investigating, and remediating vulnerabilities across all stages of the SDLC; Hands on experience writing and reviewing code and contributing to developer workflows such as design reviews, planning, and implementation; Proven experience designing, implementing, and improving security tooling and CI/CD integrations, with focus on reducing noise and prioritizing risk; Strong focus on developer experience with the ability to communicate security issues clearly; Familiarity with application architectures, including monolithic and microservice based designs; Solid understanding of frameworks such as OWASP Top 10, SAMM, ASVS, and FIRST principles; Comfort working across one or more programming languages such as Java, C++, Python, JavaScript or similar; Experience with LLMs, AI, and agentic coding platforms such as Github Co-pilot, Gemini, or Claude Code; Proven experience as a security subject-matter expert, mentoring and raising awareness to security mandates