DevSecOps Capability Manager in Skipton

As our DevSecOps Capability Manager, you’ll lead and scale Skipton’s DevSecOps capability to enable fast, safe and compliant software delivery across our product and platform teams. You will be accountable for embedding secure‑by‑design principles, modern automation practices, and policy‑as‑code into our CI/CD ecosystem, ensuring that our engineering teams can deliver high‑quality change with confidence. You will drive improvements in lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate and system reliability, all measured through our Engineering Scorecard. This role blends technical strategy, leadership, governance and hands‑on capability development to strengthen our engineering foundations and support delivery of the Society’s Corporate Plan.

Responsibilities

• Owning lead time for changes and deployment frequency outcomes across shared pipelines and platforms.
• Publishing DORA and flow metrics monthly, using them to drive targeted improvements.
• Removing delivery bottlenecks through automation and policy‑as‑code, including trunk‑based development, automated approvals for low‑risk changes, canary/blue‑green deployment and auto‑rollback.
• Triggering “scorecard → investment” actions when performance thresholds are breached to restore flow, quality and reliability.
• Leading, coaching and developing a team of 3–5 DevSecOps Engineers.
• Defining and maintaining DevSecOps standards, patterns and best practices across engineering teams.
• Building a high‑performing engineering culture focused on security, automation and continuous improvement.
• Setting the strategy for DevSecOps capabilities, including pipeline standardisation and security automation.
• Establishing governance for secure CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code and cloud delivery.
• Defining and enforcing Observability Minimum Standards including tracing, SLOs, release‑linked annotations and dashboards.
• Mandating security in the pipeline, including secrets protection, SAST/SCA/DAST, IaC scanning and WAF coverage for external apps.
• Governance of Golden Path (Prod‑OS) templates, patterns and adoption levels.
• Overseeing the reliability, performance and security posture of pipelines, platforms and engineering tooling.
• Ensuring effective vulnerability management, including remediation tracking and escalation.
• Providing leadership during incidents and post‑incident reviews, improving MTTR and root‑cause clarity.
• Integrating telemetry across Azure, Defender, Entra and WAF to unify our security posture.
• Using SLO/error‑budget signals and observability insights to inform go/no‑go and rollback decisions.
• Acting as a senior advisor to Engineering Managers, Product Owners and Cyber Security teams, ensuring strong alignment on security requirements, delivery processes and adoption of modern practices.
• Representing DevSecOps across governance forums and contributing to technology‑wide decisions.
• Leading decisions on DevSecOps tooling, including evaluation and lifecycle management.
• Driving automation across testing, security scanning, deployment, monitoring and compliance.
• Partnering with Cloud and Platform Engineering to ensure scalable, resilient and consistent DevSecOps ecosystems.
• Owning the Golden Path service catalogue, including pipelines, IaC modules and secure defaults.
• Embedding BCP and operational resilience controls directly as policy‑as‑code.
• Ensuring pipelines produce audit‑ready evidence for regulated environments.
• Running periodic gamedays with Release & Environments teams to validate recoverability.

Qualifications

• Strong leadership and people‑management experience, particularly coaching senior engineers.
• Deep expertise in CI/CD design, automation and security integration.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms, containerisation, infrastructure‑as‑code and modern delivery patterns.
• Demonstrated ability to address and remediate security risks at scale.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills across technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Proven track record of improving DORA and flow metrics through automation and modern engineering practices.
• Experience defining observability standards and implementing unified dashboards.
• Extensive experience in DevOps, security engineering or platform engineering within complex or regulated environments.
• Strong working knowledge of automated security tooling (SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning, container scanning).
• Experience in cloud security, identity and access management, zero‑trust principles and platform guardrails.
• Practical involvement in incident management and post‑incident review processes.
• Demonstrable delivery of policy‑as‑code and compliance‑as‑code in regulated environments.

Behaviours

• Strategic thinker with the ability to influence and shape technology decisions.
• Empowers and develops others, creating a supportive, growth‑focused team environment.
• Outcome‑oriented, maintaining balance between security, speed and reliability.
• Collaborative and influential, building trust across diverse teams.
• Continuous‑improvement mindset, simplifying and enhancing engineering practices.
• Calm under pressure, particularly during incidents or complex challenges.
• Visible champion for modern engineering ways of working and DevSecOps adoption.

Company

We’re not just another building society. We’re the fourth biggest building society in the UK and what makes us a bit different is that we’re a mutual organisation. We don’t have shareholders; we’re owned by our members. Our colleagues say Skipton’s a great place to work, and you could be one of them, bringing with you new ideas on how we can keep customers at the heart of what we do. Whatever your background, and whatever your goals, we’ll help you take the next step towards a better future.

Benefits

• Annual discretionary bonus scheme
• 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + rising 1 day per year of service to a maximum of 30 days
• Holiday trading scheme allowing the ability to buy and sell additional annual leave days
• Matching employer pension contribution (up to 10% per annum)
• Colleague mortgage (conditions apply)
• Salary sacrifice scheme for hybrid & electric car
• Commitment to training and development
• Private medical insurance for all our colleagues
• 3 paid volunteering days per annum
• Diverse and inclusive colleague networks available for you to join including our Carers and Pride Alliance groups
• Cycle to work initiative and discounted gym membership

Skipton values work/life balance and we are proud to support hybrid and flexible working, where possible. We have a newly refurbished head office which offers a vibrant and collaborative working space.