DevSecOps Engineer

DevSecOps Engineer
Hybrid - 3 days a week

Due to the nature the Company and work must beeligible for UK Security Clearance (SC)

We are working with a leading UK technology and engineering organisation at the forefront of national security, defence, and advanced innovation. They deliver mission-critical solutions that give customers a decisive information advantage in complex, high-stakes environments.

They are now seeking aDevSecOps Engineerto join a specialist team tackling some of the most challenging problems in modern technology spanning across cloud, security, automation, and AI/ML operations.

You'll operate at the intersection ofcloud engineering, cyber security, and reliability, working on problems such as:

• Securely updating deployed systems in sensitive environments
• Scaling and maintaining resilient platforms under operational pressure
• Applying DevSecOps and SRE principles to mission-critical systems

Required responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end DevSecOps best practice across the SDLC
• Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
• Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to improve system uptime and performance
• Support live operational systems, troubleshooting and resolving issues
• Collaborate across engineering, security, and product teams to deliver secure, high-quality solutions
• Act as a technical leader and mentor, helping teams adopt modern DevSecOps approaches

Key skills required

Cloud Platforms: Strong experience with AWS (primary), with exposure to Azure and/or GCP

DevSecOps & Automation: End-to-end ownership of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or similar), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet), and Linux-based scripting

Security Engineering: Hands-on with vulnerability management (e.g. Tenable), IAM (Azure AD, Keycloak), secure networking (certificates, tokens), and code scanning (e.g. SonarQube)

Containerisation & Orchestration:Solid experience with Docker/Podman and Kubernetes, with exposure to GPU/container workloads (desirable)

Architecture & Integration: Experience designing microservices, serverless, and edge architectures, with strong capability across APIs (REST/gRPC) and event-driven systems (Kafka, MQTT)

Observability & SRE: Familiar with Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, applying SRE principles to improve system reliability, uptime, and performance

Programming & Automation: Ability to script and automate using Python (or similar languages such as Rust)