DevSecOps Engineer

On behalf of The Home Office, we are looking for a DevSecOps Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 9 Months contract based REMOTELY/ in Croydon.

"SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks."

The first duty of Government is to protect the public. Since 1782, the Home Office has led work to keep the country safe from those who seek to do it harm; in doing so, we make a vital contribution to HM Government’s plan for a stronger, fairer, outward-looking and united Britain.

The Home Office covers three systems Homeland Security, Public Safety and Borders, and Immigration and Citizenship. These systems work collaboratively to deliver our cross-cutting priorities, whilst providing increasingly efficient and secure services for the public. These are difficult areas that can rapidly change in the global environment we work in – this makes us one of the most exciting and stimulating government departments in which to work.

As a DevSecOps Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Working across 4 main areas; digital forensics, assessment management, investigations and threat intelligence to support and maintain the security posture of a cloud platform using the latest Threat Intelligence sources.

• Configuration and assurance of platform security tools (e.g. Splunk, Nessus, AWS etc).

• Security engineering management including identification and resolution of issues

• Run internal IT Health checks

• Use specialist tools to scan for vulnerabilities and ensuring any that are identified are mediated appropriately

• Strong IT technical background and experience working in a SOC environment

• Vulnerability assessment and patch management tools

• Understanding of operating protocol analysers and analysing output

• Performing monitoring, analysis and recovery procedures

• Performing deep-dive incident analysis by correlating data from various sources

• Communicating in a verbal and written manner, and a good understanding of the use of different channels and formats for different audiences.

• Experience in AWS.

• SC and NPPV3 Clearance.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the Home Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".