Job Description

Lead DevSecOps Engineer

£645 per day inside ir35

Remote

6 months (scope for extension)

SC Clearance is required for this role

Lead the security and automation strategy behind one of the UK's most significant Defence digital transformation programmes.

We're looking for an experienced Lead DevSecOps Engineer to drive secure software delivery across a complex, multi-cloud environment supporting critical UK Defence capabilities.

This is a highly visible role where you'll shape DevSecOps standards, influence engineering teams, and ensure security is embedded throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.

What You'll Be Doing

Leading DevSecOps practices across multiple digital products

Designing and improving secure CI/CD and GitOps pipelines

Embedding security scanning, vulnerability management and compliance controls

Driving Infrastructure as Code adoption and governance

Implementing secrets management, IAM and policy enforcement

Enhancing observability through monitoring, logging and audit capabilities

Collaborating with developers, testers, infrastructure and security teams to deliver secure-by-design solutions

Tech Stack

GitHub Actions

Argo CD / Argo Rollouts

Terraform

Docker & Kubernetes (EKS)

HashiCorp Vault

Trivy

Grafana & Loki

Python & Bash

AWS, Azure & OCI

What We're Looking For

Proven experience leading DevSecOps teams and practices

Strong hands-on background across cloud, automation and security tooling

Experience delivering within UK Government or GDS environments

Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills

Ability to influence engineering standards across distributed teams

If you are interested, please submit your CV