About this role
Salary: £110,000 - 125,000 per year
Requirements: Experienced DevSecOps Lead or Principal Engineer with strong hands-on engineering and technical leadership experienceExperience with CI/CD and GitOps tools, including GitHub Actions, Argo CD and Argo RolloutsExperience with security and compliance tools and practices, including Trivy, vulnerability management, HashiCorp Vault and cert-managerExperience with containers and cloud technologies, including Docker, AWS EKS, AWS IAM, S3 and network policiesExperience with Terraform for Infrastructure as CodeExperience with Grafana and Loki for observabilityExperience with Python and Bash automationExperience delivering within the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) lifecycle on a public sector engagementSecurity Check (SC) clearance and eligibility, including continuous UK residency for the last five yearsSole UK national Responsibilities: Design and continuously improve secure, automated CI/CD and GitOps pipelinesEmbed security scanning, vulnerability management and secrets management into delivery workflowsEstablish secure-by-design engineering practices and enforce security and technical standardsLead Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices across teams and environmentsDrive observability, monitoring, logging and audit controlsSupport incident response, patching, compliance reporting and technical debt remediationPartner with developers and delivery teams to improve engineering quality and securityDocument security processes, controls and operational runbooksProvide technical leadership and help establish effective DevSecOps ways of working Technologies: AWSBashCI/CDCloudDevSecOpsDockerGitHubGitOpsGrafanaIAMSupportNetworkPythonSecurityTerraformDevOps More:
We are hiring a Principal DevSecOps Engineer for a permanent role based in London, with hybrid working requiring three days per week on-site. The role supports complex, high-impact technology transformation programmes and offers a salary of £110,000–£125,000, a 5–10% bonus, pension and benefits. We provide learning and development opportunities, professional certifications and the opportunity to shape DevSecOps practices across a growing technology environment.
last updated 41 week of 2026