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 Stoke-on-Trent employer: TALENT INTERNATIONAL UK LTD
As a leading technology consultancy, we pride ourselves on fostering a dynamic and inclusive work culture that prioritises employee growth and innovation. Our hybrid working model allows for flexibility while maintaining strong collaboration across teams, particularly in the vibrant cities of London and Bristol/Bath. With a focus on meaningful projects within the UK Defence sector, we offer our engineers the opportunity to make an immediate impact while developing their skills in cutting-edge DevSecOps practices.
Contact Details:
TALENT INTERNATIONAL UK LTD Recruitment Team
