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Lead / Principal DevSecOps Engineer - Permanent
Job Type: Permanent
Location: Hybrid – Bristol - 3 days per week on-site
Salary: £110,000–£125,000 + 5–10% bonus + pension + benefits
🚀 Build secure, scalable platforms that enable transformation.
We’re looking for a Principal DevSecOps Engineer to lead the adoption and continuous improvement of DevSecOps practices across complex technology transformation programmes.
You’ll combine hands-on engineering with technical leadership — embedding security, automation, governance and reliability throughout the path to live.
What you’ll do
- Design and continuously improve secure, automated CI/CD and GitOps pipelines
- Embed security scanning, vulnerability management and secrets management into delivery workflows
- Establish secure-by-design engineering practices and enforce security and technical standards
- Lead Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices across teams and environments
- Drive observability, monitoring, logging and audit controls
- Support incident response, patching, compliance reporting and technical debt remediation
- Partner with developers and delivery teams to improve engineering quality and security
- Document security processes, controls and operational runbooks
- Provide technical leadership and help establish effective DevSecOps ways of working
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What we’re looking for
You’ll be an experienced DevSecOps Lead or Principal Engineer with strong hands-on and leadership experience across:
- CI/CD & GitOps – GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts
- Security & compliance – Trivy, vulnerability management, HashiCorp Vault, cert-manager
- Containers & cloud – Docker, AWS EKS, AWS IAM, S3 and network policies
- Infrastructure as Code – Terraform
- Observability – Grafana, Loki
- Automation – Python and Bash
- Experience delivering within the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) lifecycle on a public sector engagement
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🌟 Why join?
You’ll work on complex, high-impact transformation programmes where engineering, security and technology come together.
You’ll have access to extensive learning and development opportunities, professional certifications and flexible hybrid working — with the opportunity to shape DevSecOps practices across a growing technology environment.
You need to be a Sole UK national for this requirement
🔐 Security Check (SC) clearance is required, including continuous UK residency for the last five years, alongside the relevant eligibility requirements.
Ready to shape the future of secure engineering?
If you’re a senior DevSecOps professional who enjoys solving complex technical challenges, leading from the front and building secure engineering practices that scale, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now.
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