Lead DevSecOps Engineer - London

Salary: £? - ? per year

Requirements

• Proven experience leading DevSecOps teams and practices
• Strong hands-on background across cloud, automation, and security tooling
• Experience delivering within UK Government or GDS environments
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills
• Ability to influence engineering standards across distributed teams
• SC Clearance is required for this role

Responsibilities

• Lead DevSecOps practices across multiple digital products
• Design and improve secure CI/CD and GitOps pipelines
• Embed security scanning, vulnerability management, and compliance controls
• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption and governance
• Implement secrets management, IAM, and policy enforcement
• Enhance observability through monitoring, logging, and audit capabilities
• Collaborate with developers, testers, infrastructure, and security teams to deliver secure-by-design solutions

Technologies

• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevSecOps
• GitOps
• IAM
• Security
• AWS
• Azure
• Bash
• DevOps
• Docker
• Embedded
• GitHub
• Grafana
• Kubernetes
• Python
• Terraform

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We are hiring a Lead DevSecOps Engineer for one of the UKs most significant Defence digital transformation programmes. This is a remote role paying £645 per day inside IR35, with an initial duration of 6 months and scope for extension. We operate in a highly visible, complex multi-cloud environment supporting critical UK Defence capabilities, where you will help shape DevSecOps standards and embed security throughout the software delivery lifecycle. We are looking for someone who can lead secure software delivery across modern cloud platforms and help drive our engineering and security strategy.

last updated 28 week of 2026