Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Salary: £36,000 - 60,000 per year

Requirements:

• Active SC Clearance is essential.
• Strong Defence, MOD or Aerospace experience is required.
• Extensive experience in DevSecOps, DevOps, Platform Engineering or Cloud Security is required.
• Extensive experience building secure CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD or Jenkins is required.
• Strong Azure and/or AWS security experience is required.
• Hands-on Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform, Bicep, ARM Templates or Ansible is required.
• Experience securing Kubernetes and containerised environments is required.
• Knowledge of Zero Trust Architecture, IAM, RBAC and Privileged Access Management (PAM) is required.
• Experience implementing SAST, DAST, SCA, container scanning and secrets management is required.
• Strong scripting skills with PowerShell, Python or Bash are required.
• Experience with SIEM, SOAR, logging and observability platforms is required.
• Good understanding of security frameworks including NIST, ISO 27001, NCSC and Cyber Essentials Plus is required.
• CISSP, CCSP, Security, CEH, CKS, CKA or similar certifications are preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the design and implementation of secure DevSecOps platforms and toolchains.
• Embed automated security controls into CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop secure Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, Bicep, ARM and Ansible.
• Design secure Azure, AWS and hybrid cloud environments.
• Implement vulnerability management, security monitoring and automated compliance.
• Support threat modelling, security architecture reviews and risk assessments.
• Drive adoption of Secure Software Development Lifecycle best practice.
• Implement container and Kubernetes security across enterprise platforms.
• Continuously improve automation, platform resilience and operational security.

Technologies:

• ARM
• AWS
• Ansible
• Azure
• Bash
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevSecOps
• DevOps
• GitHub
• GitLab
• IAM
• Support
• Jenkins
• Kubernetes
• PowerShell
• Python
• RBAC
• Security
• Terraform
• Embedded

More:

We are recruiting a Senior DevSecOps Engineer for high-profile Defence and Aerospace programmes based in Reading, with hybrid working available. This is an inside IR35 opportunity offering up to £71 per hour. You will help us deliver secure digital platforms by integrating security, automation and cloud engineering best practices throughout the software development lifecycle.

last updated 31 week of 2026