DevSecOps Engineer

DevSecOps Engineer

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Hybrid - 3 days a week

Due to the nature the Company and work must be eligible for UK Security Clearance (SC)
We are working with a leading UK technology and engineering organisation at the forefront of national security, defence, and advanced innovation. They deliver mission-critical solutions that give customers a decisive information advantage in complex, high-stakes environments.
They are now seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to join a specialist team tackling some of the most challenging problems in modern technology spanning across cloud, security, automation, and AI/ML operations.
You'll operate at the intersection of cloud engineering, cyber security, and reliability , working on problems such as:
Securely updating deployed systems in sensitive environments
Scaling and maintaining resilient platforms under operational pressure
Applying DevSecOps and SRE principles to mission-critical systems
Required responsibilities
Drive end-to-end DevSecOps best practice across the SDLC
Design and implement CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation
Apply Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles to improve system uptime and performance
Support live operational systems, troubleshooting and resolving issues
Collaborate across engineering, security, and product teams to deliver secure, high-quality solutions
Act as a technical leader and mentor, helping teams adopt modern DevSecOps approaches
Key skills required

Cloud Platforms: Strong experience with AWS (primary), with exposure to Azure and/or GCP
DevSecOps & Automation : End-to-end ownership of CI/CD pipelines (GitLab or similar), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet), and Linux-based scripting
Security Engineering: Hands-on with vulnerability management (e.g. Tenable), IAM (Azure AD, Keycloak), secure networking (certificates, tokens), and xwzovoh code scanning (e.g. SonarQube)
Containerisation & Orchestration: Solid experience with Docker/Podman and Kubernetes, with exposure to GPU/container workloads (desirable)
Architecture & Integration: Experience designing microservices, serverless, and edge architectures, with strong capability across APIs (REST/gRPC) and event-driven systems (Kafka, MQTT)

Observability & SRE: Familiar with Prometheus, Grafana, Elastic, applying SRE principles to improve system reliability, uptime, and performance
Programming & Automation: Ability to script and automate using Python (or similar languages such as Rust)