SC Cleared Lead DevSecOps Engineer

SC Cleared Lead DevSecOps Engineer Rate: Up to £600/day (Inside IR35)

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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

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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. xkybehq
Help coordinate release activity across integrated products deployed into Azure, AWS and OCI within MODCloud.

Job Details

Company
IO Associates
Location
Norton, North Yorkshire, UK
Hybrid / Remote Options
Posted