Job Description

Role: Lead DevSecOps Engineer

Contract Length: 6 Months

Location: Hybrid – 2 or 3 days/week on site

Choice of locations: London, Lincoln, Plymouth, York, Croydon, Wakefield, Birmingham, Leeds or Nottingham

IR35: Inside

Rate: £650/day (Umbrella)

Security Clearance:  SC

This position is responsible for ensuring that security is built into every part of the development lifecycle, specifically ensuring that security tooling (native and non-native) is properly embedded into CI/CD CI/CD pipelines. The role holder will be part of a transformation programme including tech debt replacement and migration, embedding security to ensure seamless integration of new systems/ features and workflows.

The Lead DevSecOps role will be responsible for ensuring that the replacement systems are security compliant, adhering to standards such as Secure by Design and GovAssure, utilising a shift left mentality to fix problems before production. This is as part of highly complex legacy replacements involving approximately 90,000 users.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Strong hands-on expertise in DevSecOps practices, particularly security automation in CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code pipelines.
• Deep understanding of modern DevOps tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions/ CircleCI, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker) with secure configurations.
• Experience implementing security controls in cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS or Azure) including IAM, network policies, and container security.
• Proven track record of using tools such as Snyk, Trivy, Checkov, OPA/Gatekeeper/ OWASP ZAP, or similar to enforce pipeline and platform security.
• Familiarity with compliance requirements (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, CIS Benchmarks) and their implementation via code.
• Ability to lead and mentor teams on secure coding, threat modelling, and secure architecture patterns.
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and security telemetry platforms (e.g., Prometheus, Loki, ELK, XDR/SIEM integrations).

To apply for this role please submit your latest CV or contact Aspect Resources on 0121 794 8181

Disability Confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, CLIENT guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant   

CLIENT is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. 

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on 0121 794 8181.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.