About this role
Salary: £50,000 - 70,000 per year
Requirements: Strong leadership and people management experienceDeep expertise in CI/CD, DevSecOps, and security integrationStrong cloud, containerisation, and IaC knowledgeProven ability to improve DORA and engineering performance metricsExperience with observability and monitoring frameworksStrong background in security tooling (SAST, SCA, DAST, scanning tools)Solid understanding of cloud security, IAM, and zero-trust principlesExperience working in complex or regulated environmentsExcellent communication and stakeholder management skills Responsibilities: Lead and scale DevSecOps practices across our organisation, embedding secure-by-design principles, modern automation, and policy-as-code into our CI/CD ecosystemImprove engineering performance by focusing on DORA metrics such as lead time, deployment frequency, and reliabilityOwn and improve lead time and deployment frequency across our platformsPublish and act on DORA and flow metricsRemove bottlenecks through automation and policy-as-codeImplement modern deployment strategies such as canary, blue/green, and auto rollbackDrive performance improvements via engineering scorecardsLead, coach, and develop a team of DevSecOps EngineersDefine standards, patterns, and best practicesFoster a culture of security, automation, and continuous improvementSet DevSecOps strategy across our pipelines and security automationEstablish governance for CI/CD, IaC, and cloud deliveryDefine observability standards including SLOs, tracing, and dashboardsEmbed security into pipelines through SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets, and IaC scanningGovern Golden Path templates and adoptionOversee reliability, performance, and security of our platforms and pipelinesLead vulnerability management and remediationSupport incident response and post-incident reviewsIntegrate telemetry across our Azure ecosystem, including Defender, Entra, and WAFAct as a senior advisor to engineering, product, and security teamsAlign stakeholders on delivery and security best practiceRepresent DevSecOps in governance forumsOwn our DevSecOps tooling strategy and lifecycleDrive automation across testing, security, deployment, and monitoringPartner with Cloud and Platform teamsOwn and evolve the Golden Path service catalogueEmbed resilience and business continuity planning via policy-as-codeEnsure audit-ready pipeline outputsRun recovery and resilience testing, including game days Technologies: AzureCI/CDCloudDevSecOpsFlowIAMSupportSecurityWAFDevOps More:
We are a forward-thinking organisation offering a fantastic opportunity to lead and evolve a DevSecOps capability that enables fast, safe, and compliant delivery across multiple engineering teams. This is a hybrid role based in Skipton with a competitive salary and an excellent benefits package that includes an annual discretionary bonus, 25 days holiday plus bank holidays, holiday trading, up to 10% matched pension, private medical insurance, an electric car salary sacrifice scheme, colleague mortgage benefits, three paid volunteering days, gym discounts, wellbeing support, and inclusive employee networks. We also offer ongoing learning, development, leadership exposure, and flexible working options.
last updated 29 week of 2026