At a Glance
- Tasks: Join the DevSecOps team to enhance security across applications and cloud services.
- Company: Be part of the BBC, a leading media technology organisation with a collaborative culture.
- Benefits: Enjoy a competitive salary, flexible working options, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work in a dynamic environment with excellent career advancement opportunities.
- Why this job: Make a real impact on security engineering while exploring AI and automation.
- Qualifications: Experience in software engineering and vulnerability management is essential.
The predicted salary is between 70000 - 80000 £ per year.
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Employer: BBC
Location: Cardiff, United Kingdom
Salary: GBP 70,000.00 - 80,000.00 per year; GBP 5,441.00
Closing date: 1 Sep 2026
Sector: Technology
Role: Senior Executive
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: Full Time
DEPARTMENT: Media Technology, Development Operations, DevSecOps
LOCATION: UK wide - London, Salford, Cardiff, Newcastle or Glasgow - Hybrid (1 day per week in the office)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £70,000 - £80,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
London Weighting: £5,441 on top of base salary for London office only
We're happy to discuss flexible working. If you'd like to, please indicate your preference in the application - though there's no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.
PURPOSE OF THE ROLE: Join Media Technology's Dev Operations team as a Senior Software Engineer, DevSecOps. You'll operate and evolve the platforms and workflows that help engineering teams understand, own and reduce security risk across applications and cloud services. This is a hands-on role spanning vulnerability management, platform ownership, software engineering, integrations and automation, with opportunities to apply emerging AI-assisted capabilities where they can improve security and engineering outcomes.
WHY JOIN THE TEAM: Dev Operations works across Media Technology to improve how engineering risk is understood and managed at scale. You'll help shape a growing security engineering capability, combining platform ownership with software engineering to make vulnerability management more effective and easier for teams to adopt. You'll have room to influence technical direction, build reusable patterns and explore practical uses of AI and automation in security operations.
YOUR KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND IMPACT:
- Operate and evolve security posture and vulnerability-management platforms, including configuration, access, integrations, data quality, risk policies and reporting.
- Own the technical implementation of vulnerability-management workflows, from prioritisation and assignment through to risk treatment, resolution and reporting.
- Monitor platform health and effectiveness, investigate data and integration issues, and work with suppliers where product support or changes are required.
- Design, build and operate integrations and automation that connect security findings with the technical and organisational context needed to make them actionable.
- Work with engineering teams and technical leaders to improve ownership, prioritisation and risk-management outcomes, turning successful approaches into reusable patterns.
- Maintain strong engineering standards through automated testing, observability, documentation, technical review and operational support.
- Evaluate, prototype and integrate AI-assisted capabilities where they can improve security analysis, prioritisation, remediation support or operational workflows.
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:
ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:
- Hands-on experience operating and improving vulnerability-management, application-security or other security platforms used by engineering teams.
- A strong understanding of the vulnerability-management lifecycle, including prioritisation, ownership, risk treatment, resolution and reporting.
- Strong software engineering experience building and operating production services, integrations or automation using at least one modern programming language.
- Experience designing secure integrations and data flows across cloud environments using APIs, Infrastructure as Code, webhooks or event-driven patterns, with attention to identity and access management, least-privilege design, secrets, failure handling and operational monitoring.
- Strong technical judgement and communication skills, with experience working across engineering teams to shape designs, explain trade-offs and deliver practical outcomes.
DESIRABLE:
- Experience working in DevSecOps, application security, security engineering or platform engineering.
- Experience building or operating shared technical capabilities used by multiple engineering teams.
- Experience adapting technical platforms to support different teams, workflows and reporting needs.
- Experience integrating security, engineering or operational data from multiple systems.
- Experience applying automation, data or AI to improve engineering, security or operational workflows.
Before your start date, you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges, in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.
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