Lead DevSecOps Engineer

£645 per day inside ir35

Remote

6 months (scope for extension)

SC Clearance is required for this role

Lead the security and automation strategy behind one of the UK's most significant Defence digital transformation programmes.

We're looking for an experienced Lead DevSecOps Engineer to drive secure software delivery across a complex, multi-cloud environment supporting critical UK Defence capabilities.

This is a highly visible role where you'll shape DevSecOps standards, influence engineering teams, and ensure security is embedded throughout the entire software delivery lifecycle.

What You'll Be Doing

• Leading DevSecOps practices across multiple digital products
• Designing and improving secure CI/CD and GitOps pipelines
• Embedding security scanning, vulnerability management and compliance controls
• Driving Infrastructure as Code adoption and governance
• Implementing secrets management, IAM and policy enforcement
• Enhancing observability through monitoring, logging and audit capabilities
• Collaborating with developers, testers, infrastructure and security teams to deliver secure-by-design solutions

Tech Stack

• GitHub Actions
• Argo CD / Argo Rollouts
• Terraform
• Docker & Kubernetes (EKS)
• HashiCorp Vault
• Trivy
• Grafana & Loki
• Python & Bash
• AWS, Azure & OCI

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience leading DevSecOps teams and practices
• Strong hands-on background across cloud, automation and security tooling
• Experience delivering within UK Government or GDS environments
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Ability to influence engineering standards across distributed teams

If you are interested, please submit your CV.