At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead the charge in delivering secure, high-quality software across defence and security programmes.
- Company: Join Leonardo, a global leader in defence and security with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary, hybrid working, and a commitment to your professional growth.
- Other info: Be part of a diverse team dedicated to continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Why this job: Make a real impact by shaping DevSecOps practices and driving automation in software delivery.
- Qualifications: Degree in Computer Science or related field, plus experience in complex engineering environments.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
As a Principal Software Engineer (DevSecOps), you will play a key role in accelerating the delivery of secure, high-quality software across Leonardo's defence and security programmes. You will help shape and evolve our enterprise DevSecOps capability, enabling teams to deliver features and updates rapidly, reliably and securely.
Working within our software engineering community, you will champion modern engineering practices, drive automation, and embed security throughout the software development lifecycle. Through your technical leadership and mentoring, you will help build a collaborative DevSecOps culture focused on innovation, continuous improvement and operational excellence.
- Contribute to the planning and implementation of DevSecOps capabilities across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.
- Drive automation across software delivery and infrastructure provisioning to improve quality, consistency and efficiency.
- Develop and maintain automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
- Apply effective change, configuration and release management practices.
- Support deployed services, ensuring high levels of performance, security and availability.
- Collaborate with engineers, platform teams and stakeholders to improve delivery capability and engineering practices.
- Champion secure-by-design principles across the software development lifecycle.
You will have a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline, together with experience delivering software solutions within a complex engineering environment.
- Experience designing, building and operating secure-by-design environments.
- Knowledge of cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments, including associated security considerations.
- Experience with enterprise DevOps and DevSecOps tools supporting modern software delivery.
- A background in software engineering, platform engineering, IT operations or a related discipline.
- Experience with requirements management, configuration management and version control tools.
- Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code, automation and deployment technologies.
- Experience working within Agile development environments.
- A passion for automation, continuous improvement and engineering excellence.
Security Clearance
Contract Type: Permanent
Hybrid Working: Hybrid
Locations
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