At a Glance
- Tasks: Engineer and maintain security controls for a cutting-edge cloud platform.
- Company: Major financial services organisation with a focus on innovation.
- Benefits: Competitive day rate, hybrid work model, and opportunity to shape security foundations.
- Other info: Join a dynamic team with opportunities for professional growth.
- Why this job: Tackle modern cloud-native security challenges and make a real impact.
- Qualifications: Experience in DevSecOps, AWS security, and Kubernetes environments required.
The predicted salary is between 63000 - 77000 £ per year.
We're supporting a major financial services organisation delivering a next-generation cloud platform that will underpin multiple strategic programmes and engineering teams. As a result, we're looking for a hands-on DevSecOps Engineer to join the platform security function and help build the guardrails, controls and automation that allow product and engineering teams to scale securely by default. This is an engineering-first role focused on AWS, Kubernetes, CI/CD security and platform protection. You'll work alongside Platform Engineering, Developer Platform and Security Architecture teams to ensure security is embedded into the platform rather than bolted on afterwards.
What You'll Be Doing
- Engineering and maintaining security controls across a multi-tenant AWS platform
- Implementing and managing IAM controls including SCPs, Permission Boundaries and ABAC
- Designing secure workload identity and tenant isolation controls
- Embedding security into CI/CD delivery pipelines
- Implementing container, IaC, secrets and software composition scanning
- Building software supply chain security controls including image signing, verification and SBOM generation
- Developing Policy-as-Code controls using OPA, Rego, Kyverno or similar technologies
- Securing and hardening EKS environments through RBAC, Network Policies and Admission Controllers
- Supporting mTLS, PKI and service-to-service authentication initiatives
- Driving remediation of security findings and penetration test outcomes
- Creating reusable security modules, patterns and golden paths for engineering teams
Essential Experience
- Proven experience within DevSecOps, Cloud Security Engineering or Platform Security
- Strong AWS security expertise, including IAM, SCPs, Permission Boundaries and ABAC
- Commercial experience securing Kubernetes environments, ideally EKS
- Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code experience
- Building security controls into CI/CD pipelines
- Experience with workload identity, PKI and mTLS
- Strong understanding of software supply chain security
- Scripting or development capability using Python, Go or similar
- Ability to work effectively with engineers, platform teams and security architects
Desirable Experience
- Istio and Service Mesh security
- AWS Private CA and IAM Roles Anywhere
- Harness CI/CD
- OPA, Gatekeeper, Kyverno or OSCAL
- Sigstore, Cosign, SLSA and SBOM tooling
- Internal Developer Platform (IDP) security
- AWS Security Specialty, CKS, CISSP or equivalent certifications
- Experience within regulated financial services environments
Why Apply?
This is an opportunity to shape the security foundations of a major enterprise platform operating at significant scale. You'll be working on modern cloud-native security challenges across AWS, Kubernetes, platform engineering and software supply chain security, helping define the controls and guardrails that every engineering team will rely upon.
Senior DevSecOps Engineer in City of London employer: Sanderson
Join a forward-thinking team as a DevOps Engineer, where you'll thrive in a fully remote environment that champions innovation and collaboration. With a focus on employee growth, you'll gain invaluable experience working with cutting-edge cloud technologies and automation tools, all while contributing to critical AWS-hosted platforms. Our supportive work culture encourages continuous learning and development, making this an ideal opportunity for those looking to advance their careers in a dynamic setting.
