DevOps Engineer (Security)

DevOps Engineer (Security Focus)

Security isn’t a bolt-on here; it’s built in from day one. This is your chance to help secure a major multi-cloud transformation, embedding best practice into platforms and pipelines that power a high-profile, nationally significant digital estate.

Role Overview:

• Location: Watford/Hybrid (3 days per week in the office)
• Package: £80,000- £95,000pa, 10% Annual Bonus & Benefits
• Industry: Technology

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Act as the DevSecOps specialist, owning the identification, triage and remediation of security vulnerabilities across cloud, applications and pipelines.
• Partner closely with SOC and Cyber teams to respond quickly to active and emerging threats.
• Embed security tooling into CI/CD pipelines, including container and secret scanning.
• Strengthen Infrastructure as Code security, ensuring Terraform configurations align to defined guardrails and compliance standards.
• Automate security controls using policy-as-code and cloud-native tooling.
• Support threat modelling and secure-by-design principles across engineering teams.
• Manage vulnerability workflows end-to-end, ensuring risks are resolved within agreed SLAs.
• Implement and maintain secure cloud configurations across IAM, key management, networking, logging and monitoring.
• Produce clear documentation, runbooks and remediation guidance to uplift engineering capability.
• Drive governance standards and embed security thinking into everyday development practices.

Main Skills Needed:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in DevOps or DevSecOps roles.
• Proven exposure to vulnerability management and working alongside SOC/Cyber teams.
• Experience as a DevOps Engineer focused on Security OR a background within a SOC environment, followed by experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• Strong automation and scripting capability, with a background in building tooling to solve security challenges.
• Deep hands-on Terraform experience across AWS and Azure environments.
• Solid understanding of cloud security fundamentals, identity and access management, network security, container security and encryption.
• Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines (GitHub Actions preferred).
• Strong grasp of modern application architectures and secure engineering practices.
• Comfortable operating in fast-evolving cloud environments, keeping pace with new risks and technologies.

What’s in It for You:

• Annual bonus scheme and matched pension contributions up to 8.5%.
• 26 days’ holiday plus bank holidays and additional life days.
• Private medical cover, life assurance and enhanced parental leave.
• £500 annual wellness allowance plus access to personal trainers and nutritional support.
• Discounted health assessments and financial coaching.
• A genuinely inclusive culture with wellbeing at its core.
• The opportunity to shape security standards within a large-scale cloud transformation programme.

If you bring the spark, we’ll give you the platform.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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