DevSecOps Engineer (MOD / MODCloud)
Rate: £645 per day inside ir35
Location: Remote
Contract 6 months+
Active SC security clearance is required for this role
We're looking for a Lead DevSecOps Engineer to take a key role on a major UK MOD digital transformation programme, working with a leading technology partner delivering secure digital products into the Defence environment.
This is a genuinely high-impact MODCloud role, spanning multiple cloud estates and products across the MOD digital landscape, you'll help engineer and govern will be deployed across the MOD digital estate (MODCloud), including:
Microsoft Azure - MODCloud ACE / i-ACE
AWS - MODCloud ICE
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - OCI / MODCloud OCE
You'll help establish consistent, secure and automated DevSecOps practices across multiple products and engineering teams, embedding security, compliance and automation throughout the software delivery lifecycle.
Responsibilities
- Lead and embed DevSecOps engineering practices across multiple MOD digital products
- Design and govern secure CI/CD and GitOps pipelines
- Integrate security scanning, vulnerability management and compliance controls
- Drive Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
- Work across Kubernetes / Docker / AWS EKS
- Implement secrets, identity and access management using technologies such as HashiCorp Vault
- Establish observability, monitoring, logging and audit controls
- Develop secure‑by‑design engineering practices aligned to MOD security requirements
- Coordinate DevSecOps engineers, developers, testers and infrastructure teams
- Create and maintain security processes, technical standards and operational runbooks
- Support incident response, patching, risk management and compliance activity
Expereince required
You'll need strong hands-on experience across
- AWS
- Kubernetes/EKS
- Terraform
- GitHub Actions
- GitOps
- Argo CD
- Docker
- Vault
- Trivy
- cert-manager
- Grafana
- Loki
- Python
- Bash
You'll also need
- Proven DevSecOps leadership experience
- UK Government / GDS delivery experience
- Strong stakeholder and communication skills
- Experience working across distributed engineering teams
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