SC Cleared Lead DevSecOps Engineer

SC Cleared Lead DevSecOps Engineer

Rate: Up to £600/day (Inside IR35)
Clearance: Active SC Clearance
Location: Hybrid - Predominantly remote with occasional travel to London and Bristol

Overview

We are seeking an experienced, client-facing Lead DevSecOps Engineer to lead DevSecOps practices across a major defence digital transformation programme. You will drive secure, automated delivery across multiple products hosted within the MOD digital estate, including Azure, AWS and OCI environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and standardise DevSecOps practices across teams delivering into the MODCloud estate.
• Design and implement secure CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows for MODCloud-hosted products.
• Integrate security scanning, vulnerability management and compliance controls into delivery pipelines.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and automation best practices across MODCloud environments.
• Implement secrets management, IAM, monitoring, logging and audit capabilities aligned to MOD standards.
• Collaborate with developers, testers and infrastructure teams to embed secure-by-design principles across MODCloud deployments.
• Support incident response, patching, compliance reporting and operational documentation for MODCloud platforms and services.
• Help coordinate release activity across integrated products deployed into Azure, AWS and OCI within MODCloud.

Essential Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as a Lead DevSecOps Engineer in complex environments, ideally within government or defence.
• Strong hands-on expertise with:
  • GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts
  • Trivy, HashiCorp Vault, cert-manager
  • Docker, AWS EKS
  • Terraform
  • Grafana, Loki
  • Python, Bash
  • AWS IAM, S3 and networking fundamentals
• Public
• Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills.
• Experience leading distributed teams and working across cross-functional delivery teams.

Highly Desirable

• Experience delivering DevSecOps solutions within the MOD digital estate.
• Knowledge of Azure (MODCloud ACE/i-ACE), AWS (MODCloud ICE) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (MODCloud OCE).
• Lead and standardise DevSecOps practices across teams delivering into the MODCloud estate.
• Design and implement secure CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows for MODCloud-hosted products.
• Integrate security scanning, vulnerability management and compliance controls into delivery pipelines.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and automation best practices across MODCloud environments.
• Implement secrets management, IAM, monitoring, logging and audit capabilities aligned to MOD standards.
• Collaborate with developers, testers and infrastructure teams to embed secure-by-design principles across MODCloud deployments.
• Support incident response, patching, compliance reporting and operational documentation for MODCloud platforms and services.
• Help coordinate release activity across integrated products deployed into Azure, AWS and OCI within MODCloud.