About this role
Salary: £? - ? per year
Requirements: Proven experience leading DevSecOps teams and practicesStrong hands-on background across cloud, automation, and security toolingExperience delivering within UK Government or GDS environmentsExcellent stakeholder engagement and communication skillsAbility to influence engineering standards across distributed teamsSC Clearance is required for this role Responsibilities: Lead DevSecOps practices across multiple digital productsDesign and improve secure CI/CD and GitOps pipelinesEmbed security scanning, vulnerability management, and compliance controlsDrive Infrastructure as Code adoption and governanceImplement secrets management, IAM, and policy enforcementEnhance observability through monitoring, logging, and audit capabilitiesCollaborate with developers, testers, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver secure-by-design solutions Technologies: AWSAzureBashCI/CDCloudDevSecOpsDockerGitHubGitOpsGrafanaIAMSupportKubernetesPythonSecurityTerraformDevOpsEmbedded More:
We are hiring a Lead DevSecOps Engineer to support one of the UKs most significant Defence digital transformation programmes. This is a remote, 6-month contract with scope for extension, paying £645 per day inside IR35. You will play a highly visible role shaping DevSecOps standards and driving secure software delivery across a complex, multi-cloud environment supporting critical UK Defence capabilities. Our tech stack includes GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), HashiCorp Vault, Trivy, Grafana, Loki, Python, Bash, and AWS, Azure, and OCI.
last updated 29 week of 2026