Interviews/Security/DevSecOps Engineer

Hire DevSecOps Engineers
who actually put guardrails in the pipeline

With EasyEnv we build a fit test for the role. Use it to cut the noise at the top of the funnel, or to go deep on the candidates who matter.

You can even evaluate how this person works with AI. So you hire the engineer who can ship, not the one who looks good in a slide.

SAST · DAST · SCASecret scanningSupply chainSBOM · signingLive or take-home

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Real Linux VM

Not a sandbox

systemd, kernel, full toolchain

Browser-based

Zero install for candidates

One link and they are in

Auto-graded

Pass / fail checks per challenge

Plus the full session replay

A DevSecOps engineer builds the guardrails developers do not feel. The good ones land scanners that catch real risk and stay quiet on noise. EasyEnv hands the candidate a real pipeline, a real leaked secret in commit history and a CISO who wants the fix today.

Inside a live interview

What you see when they work.

Real pipeline, real findings, every keystroke recorded.

billing-api

AMS

Billing-api

src

billing.py

auth.py

models.py

tests

test_billing.pyM

test_auth.py

pyproject.toml

README.md

Pybilling.py

from decimal import Decimal

def calculate_total(items: list[dict]) -> Decimal:

# Sum line totals using Decimal for currency precision

total = Decimal("0")

for item in items:

total += Decimal(str(item["price"])) * item["qty"]

return total

candidate@devsecops:~

alice@dev:~/billing-api$

● mainPython 3.12

Claude · ready

Claude

You

Refactor calculate_total to use Decimal for currency math, and add a test.

Claude

Ask Claude...

Mike

Sam

How it works

Three steps. Zero infra to maintain.

Pick the fit test

Use a ready-made challenge or ask us to build one for your stack. Live, take-home, or both.

Send one link

The candidate clicks. A full Linux workspace boots in their browser. No installs, no VPN, no zoom-share.

Review at 2x

Replay the session, read the auto-graded checks, and decide. Most reviews take under five minutes.

The problem

Why hiring a DevSecOps Engineer is hard.

Security tools are easy to install and hard to tune. CVs do not show tuning.

False positives kill adoption. The interview has to reward judgement.

Supply chain risk is fashionable and rarely understood deeply.

SBOM and signing are checkbox to most. You need someone who can answer why.

The fit test

What we measure for a DevSecOps Engineer.

Every area runs inside a real production-like workspace. The candidate works in a browser, the session records itself.

Pipeline hardening

A CI workflow with no scanning. They add SAST, secret-scan and SCA without breaking dev velocity.

Secret triage

A repo with a leaked AWS key in history. They rotate, scrub and prevent the next one.

Supply chain controls

A registry without verification. They add Sigstore or Notary and prove the gate works.

SBOM and signing

A release pipeline that publishes blobs. They emit SBOMs and sign artifacts.

Tuning the noise

A scanner with 400 alerts. They cut to the 5 that matter.

AI collaboration

Allow AI for vulnerability triage and grade whether they verify CVE applicability before opening tickets.

The stack we put in front of them.

Real tools, pre-installed, accessible from the workspace terminal.

GitHub ActionsGitLab CISemgrepCodeQLTrivyGrypeSyftCosignin-totoSigstoreTruffleHoggitleaksSnykDependabotOPAKyverno

Sample challenges

What a DevSecOps Engineer interview looks like.

Pick from our library or ask us to build a challenge for your stack. Each one is a real workspace, not a snippet.

Challenge 01

The AWS key in commit history

Scenario

A repo where a real-looking AWS key was committed three months ago. The candidate has the repo and a sandbox account.

What you learn

Whether they rotate first, then scrub history, then add scanning.

In the workspace

$ ls challenges/

workspace, runbook.md, README.md

candidate has:

· a real Linux box in the browser
· kubectl, docker, terraform, jq, yq
· cluster, repo and cloud creds pre-wired
· auto-checks running in the background

interviewer sees:

· every keystroke + every command
· terminal + screen recording
· auto-graded pass/fail per check

AI in the loop

Score the engineer, and how they work with AI.

AI is excellent at suggesting plausible CVE patches that do not apply to your stack. EasyEnv records prompts so you see whether the candidate verified affected versions before they merged the LLM-suggested upgrade.

Allow or block AI per question, not per interview

Full prompt and response history replayed in the review

Score "verifies AI output" as a separate signal

Ready to hire a DevSecOps Engineer who ships?

Set up your first interview in under an hour. We will help you build a fit test for this role on your stack.

Request a Demo Create a Free Account

Role FAQ

Hiring a DevSecOps Engineer, answered.

Yes. Semgrep, CodeQL, Snyk, Trivy and Grype can be pre-wired to the candidate workspace.

Yes. Sigstore cosign, Notary and in-toto are all available with sandbox keys.

No. The workspace runs in their browser. Terminal, editor, ports and dashboards are all served from the EasyEnv workspace, so candidate setup is zero.

Each challenge has automated checks (did the service come back, did the test pass, did the right log message appear) plus a recording your team can replay. Most reviews take under five minutes.

Yes. AI access is a per-interview setting. Block it for fundamentals, then allow it later in the loop to assess AI collaboration separately.

Interviews/Security/DevSecOps Engineer

Hire DevSecOps Engineers
who actually put guardrails in the pipeline

With EasyEnv we build a fit test for the role. Use it to cut the noise at the top of the funnel, or to go deep on the candidates who matter.

You can even evaluate how this person works with AI. So you hire the engineer who can ship, not the one who looks good in a slide.

SAST · DAST · SCASecret scanningSupply chainSBOM · signingLive or take-home

Request a Demo Create a Free Account

Real Linux VM

Not a sandbox

systemd, kernel, full toolchain

Browser-based

Zero install for candidates

One link and they are in

Auto-graded

Pass / fail checks per challenge

Plus the full session replay

Inside a live interview

What you see when they work.

Real pipeline, real findings, every keystroke recorded.

billing-api

AMS

Billing-api

src

billing.py

auth.py

models.py

tests

test_billing.pyM

test_auth.py

pyproject.toml

README.md

Pybilling.py

from decimal import Decimal

def calculate_total(items: list[dict]) -> Decimal:

# Sum line totals using Decimal for currency precision

total = Decimal("0")

for item in items:

total += Decimal(str(item["price"])) * item["qty"]

return total

candidate@devsecops:~

alice@dev:~/billing-api$

● mainPython 3.12

Claude · ready

Claude

You

Refactor calculate_total to use Decimal for currency math, and add a test.

Claude

Ask Claude...

Mike

Sam

How it works

Three steps. Zero infra to maintain.

Pick the fit test

Use a ready-made challenge or ask us to build one for your stack. Live, take-home, or both.

Send one link

The candidate clicks. A full Linux workspace boots in their browser. No installs, no VPN, no zoom-share.

Review at 2x

Replay the session, read the auto-graded checks, and decide. Most reviews take under five minutes.

The problem

Why hiring a DevSecOps Engineer is hard.

Security tools are easy to install and hard to tune. CVs do not show tuning.

False positives kill adoption. The interview has to reward judgement.

Supply chain risk is fashionable and rarely understood deeply.

SBOM and signing are checkbox to most. You need someone who can answer why.

The fit test

What we measure for a DevSecOps Engineer.

Every area runs inside a real production-like workspace. The candidate works in a browser, the session records itself.

Pipeline hardening

A CI workflow with no scanning. They add SAST, secret-scan and SCA without breaking dev velocity.

Secret triage

A repo with a leaked AWS key in history. They rotate, scrub and prevent the next one.

Supply chain controls

A registry without verification. They add Sigstore or Notary and prove the gate works.

SBOM and signing

A release pipeline that publishes blobs. They emit SBOMs and sign artifacts.

Tuning the noise

A scanner with 400 alerts. They cut to the 5 that matter.

AI collaboration

Allow AI for vulnerability triage and grade whether they verify CVE applicability before opening tickets.

The stack we put in front of them.

Real tools, pre-installed, accessible from the workspace terminal.

GitHub ActionsGitLab CISemgrepCodeQLTrivyGrypeSyftCosignin-totoSigstoreTruffleHoggitleaksSnykDependabotOPAKyverno

Sample challenges

What a DevSecOps Engineer interview looks like.

Pick from our library or ask us to build a challenge for your stack. Each one is a real workspace, not a snippet.

Challenge 01

The AWS key in commit history

Scenario

A repo where a real-looking AWS key was committed three months ago. The candidate has the repo and a sandbox account.

What you learn

Whether they rotate first, then scrub history, then add scanning.

In the workspace

$ ls challenges/

workspace, runbook.md, README.md

candidate has:

· a real Linux box in the browser
· kubectl, docker, terraform, jq, yq
· cluster, repo and cloud creds pre-wired
· auto-checks running in the background

interviewer sees:

· every keystroke + every command
· terminal + screen recording
· auto-graded pass/fail per check

AI in the loop

Score the engineer, and how they work with AI.

Allow or block AI per question, not per interview

Full prompt and response history replayed in the review

Score "verifies AI output" as a separate signal

Ready to hire a DevSecOps Engineer who ships?

Set up your first interview in under an hour. We will help you build a fit test for this role on your stack.

Request a Demo Create a Free Account

Role FAQ

Hiring a DevSecOps Engineer, answered.

Yes. Semgrep, CodeQL, Snyk, Trivy and Grype can be pre-wired to the candidate workspace.

Yes. Sigstore cosign, Notary and in-toto are all available with sandbox keys.

No. The workspace runs in their browser. Terminal, editor, ports and dashboards are all served from the EasyEnv workspace, so candidate setup is zero.

Each challenge has automated checks (did the service come back, did the test pass, did the right log message appear) plus a recording your team can replay. Most reviews take under five minutes.

Yes. AI access is a per-interview setting. Block it for fundamentals, then allow it later in the loop to assess AI collaboration separately.

How to Hire a DevSecOps Engineer | Pipeline Hardening | EasyEnv | EasyEnv

Hire DevSecOps Engineerswho actually put guardrails in the pipeline

What you see when they work.

Three steps. Zero infra to maintain.

Pick the fit test

Send one link

Review at 2x

Why hiring a DevSecOps Engineer is hard.

What we measure for a DevSecOps Engineer.

Pipeline hardening

Secret triage

Supply chain controls

SBOM and signing

Tuning the noise

AI collaboration

The stack we put in front of them.

What a DevSecOps Engineer interview looks like.

The AWS key in commit history

Score the engineer, and how they work with AI.

Ready to hire a DevSecOps Engineer who ships?

Hiring a DevSecOps Engineer, answered.

Hire DevSecOps Engineerswho actually put guardrails in the pipeline

What you see when they work.

Three steps. Zero infra to maintain.

Pick the fit test

Send one link

Review at 2x

Why hiring a DevSecOps Engineer is hard.

What we measure for a DevSecOps Engineer.

Pipeline hardening

Secret triage

Supply chain controls

SBOM and signing

Tuning the noise

AI collaboration

The stack we put in front of them.

What a DevSecOps Engineer interview looks like.

The AWS key in commit history

Score the engineer, and how they work with AI.

Ready to hire a DevSecOps Engineer who ships?

Hiring a DevSecOps Engineer, answered.

Hire DevSecOps Engineers
who actually put guardrails in the pipeline

Hire DevSecOps Engineers
who actually put guardrails in the pipeline