At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead DevSecOps practices and enhance security across multi-cloud environments.
- Company: Dynamic technology consultancy focused on digital transformation in the UK Defence sector.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, hybrid work model, and opportunity for impactful contributions.
- Other info: Immediate start with potential for long-term engagement until March 2027.
- Why this job: Join a high-profile project and make a difference in national security through tech innovation.
- Qualifications: Proven experience in DevSecOps, CI/CD, and cloud-native architecture.
A technology consultancy is seeking an experienced, client-facing Lead DevSecOps Engineer for an immediate contract engagement. You will drive, coordinate, and scale DevSecOps practices across a high-profile digital transformation programme within the UK Defence sector. This role requires an immediate-impact engineer who can operate as a technical anchor, embedding modern GitOps workflows and stringent security compliance across a multi-cloud estate spanning AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This is a "hands-on and leading others" contract role.
Key Deliverables
- Deploy and Govern Pipelines: Rapidly evaluate, design, and improve secure, automated CI/CD and GitOps pipelines across multiple integrated product teams.
- Vulnerability Management: Seamlessly integrate automated security scanning into build/deployment workflows and manage the vulnerability lifecycle (including allowlist processes and pragmatical risk acceptance).
- Multi-Cloud Policy Enforcement: Standardize secrets management, identity/access management (IAM), and policy enforcement across AWS, Azure, and OCI workloads.
- Cross-Team Collaboration: Partner with developers, infrastructure engineers, and testers to embed secure-by-design principles from day one.
- Observability and Resilience: Ensure robust logging, monitoring, and audit controls are functioning across all environments using cloud-native tools.
- Runbook Documentation: Author and maintain clear security processes, controls, and operational runbooks in Confluence to unify distributed engineering teams.
Essential Skills and Experience
- Proven Technical Leadership: Experience establishing DevSecOps ways of working for distributed/hybrid teams while remaining deeply hands-on.
- Modern CI/CD and GitOps: Deep production experience with GitHub Actions, Argo CD, and Argo Rollouts for progressive delivery.
- Cloud Native Architecture: Strong hands-on engineering with containers and orchestration (Docker, AWS EKS) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
- Security and Observability Tooling: Hands-on experience with Trivy scanning, HashiCorp Vault, cert-manager, Grafana, and Loki.
- Automation: Expert scripting skills (Python, Bash) paired with robust cloud networking fundamentals (IAM, S3, network policies).
- Public Sector Delivery: Proven experience delivering within the Government Digital Service (GDS) lifecycle on a UK public sector engagement.
Clearance and Logistics
- Security Clearance: Due to the nature of the end-client estate, candidates holding an active MOD SC Clearance will be heavily prioritized to ensure immediate billing. Minimum BPSS is required to start, with the mandate to undergo SC processing.
- Travel Requirements: This is a hybrid contract. While predominantly remote, you must be able to travel to client and consultancy sites in London and/or the Bristol/Bath area an average of 1 day per week (potentially more during critical delivery phases).
£600.00 - £650.00 / day
DevSecOps Engineer in Leicester employer: TALENT INTERNATIONAL UK LTD
Join a forward-thinking technology consultancy that prioritises innovation and collaboration, offering a hybrid work environment that allows for flexibility while engaging with high-profile projects in the UK Defence sector. With a strong focus on employee growth, you will have the opportunity to lead transformative DevSecOps practices, supported by a culture that values technical leadership and hands-on expertise. Enjoy competitive rates and the chance to make an immediate impact in a dynamic team dedicated to secure and efficient cloud solutions.
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TALENT INTERNATIONAL UK LTD Recruitment Team
