About this role
Salary: £149,490 - 149,490 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/CDCloudDevSecOpsDockerGitHubGitOpsGrafanaIAMKubernetesPythonSecurityTerraformDevOpsEmbedded More:
We are supporting one of the UKs most significant Defence digital transformation programmes with a highly visible Lead DevSecOps Engineer role. This is a remote position on a 6-month contract with scope for extension, offered inside IR35 at £645 per day. The role sits within a complex, multi-cloud environment supporting critical UK Defence capabilities, where we will shape DevSecOps standards and embed security throughout the software delivery lifecycle. Our technology environment includes GitHub Actions, Argo CD/Argo Rollouts, Terraform, Docker and Kubernetes (EKS), HashiCorp Vault, Trivy, Grafana and Loki, Python and Bash, and AWS, Azure, and OCI.
last updated 30 week of 2026