Cyber Tech DevOps Engineer

Role Title: Cyber Tech & Engineering_ Lead Software and DevOps Engineer

Location: Sheffield, UK - (3 days a week Onsite)

Job Type: Contract with Inside IR35

Overview:

If you’re looking for a career that will help you stand out and fulfil your potential—whether you want a path to leadership or an exciting new direction—this role offers opportunities, support, and rewards to help you grow.

We are seeking an accomplished Cybersecurity Lead Software and DevOps Engineer responsible for designing and delivering enterprise security solutions, creating reusable security patterns, leading security engineering initiatives, and building new capabilities and environments. This role operates at a principal engineer level, driving strategy, hands-on implementation, and cross-team adoption.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and implement end-to-end security solutions across cloud and on-premises environments.

• Build new security environments, frameworks, and components; perform POCs and pilots for emerging solutions.

• Develop and maintain reusable security patterns and reference architectures to reduce developer effort and improve security controls.

• Manage stakeholder requirements in a fast-paced, evolving landscape of technical and business needs.

• Lead and manage a small team of engineers to deliver on objectives and stakeholder expectations.

• Drive security initiatives across IAM, secrets management, CI/CD pipeline security, and supply chain security.

• Implement secure secrets management using cloud-native vaults and HashiCorp Vault.

• Collaborate with platform and engineering teams to address security control gaps and provide implementation guidance.

• Transition new environments, solutions, and patterns to engineering teams and support adoption.

• Define strategy, roadmap, and delivery milestones, ensuring strong engineering execution.

• Promote enterprise-wide adoption of security patterns through pilots, scaling, and stakeholder alignment.

• Produce high-quality technical designs, implementation documentation, and knowledge transfers.

• Operate independently at a principal engineer level, influencing architectural decisions and engineering direction.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Strong experience in security architecture, DevSecOps, IAM, secrets, and key management.

• Hands-on expertise in CI/CD security, cloud platforms, supply chain security, and HashiCorp Vault.

• Experience building enterprise solutions across public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure) and on-premises environments.

• Proven track record of leading engineering teams and large-scale technical initiatives.

• Ability to design, build, test, transition, and scale security capabilities across an enterprise.

• Strong communication, documentation, and stakeholder management skills.

• Ability to effectively communicate and negotiate requirements with both technical and business stakeholders.

Desired Qualifications:

• Relevant public cloud certifications or equivalent experience (e.g., AWS Professional level in Architecture or DevOps track).