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DevOps Engineer

Job type:Contract
Town/City:Romsey
County:Hampshire
Salary/Rate:£760 - £780 per day + Inside ir35
Business Sector:IT
Job ref:CDI - 153493
Post Date:November 20, 2025

DevSecOps Engineer

6 months+

£780 per day inside ir35

Romsey/hybrid (3 days per week in the office)

SC or DV Security clearance is required for this role

Job Description

DevSecOps Engineer required to join my clients Defence Information Advantage team to drive best practice in end-to-end SDLC and deployment automation. The Defence domain represents many unique and cutting-edge challenges in DevSecOps, MLOps and utilisation of cloud for example updating deployed equipment in a safe and secure manner.

My client seek an innovative thought-leader who can set technical direction and coach others to push the envelope on the art of the possible. The DevSecOps Engineer will exploit the best of cloud and DevSecOps technologies to drive increased rapidity in deployment automation whilst applying SRE principles to the continual operation of live systems to increase up-time.

Areas of Responsibility:

  • Join and contribute to agile ceremonies following Scrum, Kanban or SAFe Agile.
  • Coach team members in DevSecOps.
  • Work with product owners and software developers to schedule releases and implement CI/CD pipelines.
  • Work with security architects to ensure the products and services are secure by design.

Knowledge and Experience Required:

As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will have a degree level qualification in a STEM subject, or an equivalent level of practical experience.

Depending on your level of ability/experience, you will have familiarity, competence or expertise in a subset of these areas:

Cloud technologies:

  • AWS primarily
  • Azure and GCP beneficial

Cyber security

  • Vulnerability management (e.g. tenable)
  • IDAM (e.g Azure AD, Keycloak)

Virtualisation and Containerisation

  • Containerisation (e.g. Docker, Podman)
  • Container management (e.g. Kubernetes)

Architectural styles

  • Microservices
  • Serverless

DevSecOps tooling

  • Version control (e.g. Git)
  • Continuous Integration/Deployment (e.g. Gitlab CI/CD)
  • Infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Ansible)

If you are interested in this role or wish to apply please feel free to submit your CV.