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:

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

More:

We are hiring a Lead DevSecOps Engineer to support one of the UKs most significant Defence digital transformation programmes. This is a remote, 6-month contract with scope for extension, paying £645 per day inside IR35. You will play a highly visible role shaping DevSecOps standards and driving secure software delivery across a complex, multi-cloud environment supporting critical UK Defence capabilities. Our tech stack includes GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts, Terraform, Docker, Kubernetes (EKS), HashiCorp Vault, Trivy, Grafana, Loki, Python, Bash, and AWS, Azure, and OCI.

last updated 40 week of 2026

Lead DevSecOps Engineer - London

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