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SC Cleared Lead DevSecOps Engineer
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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.
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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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Public spend highly desirable (experience variability in requirements balance).
- Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills.
- Experience leading distributed teams and working across cross-functional delivery teams.
Highly Desirable (Non-redundant duplicates removed)
- Experience delivering DevSecOps solutions within the MOD digital estate.
- Knowledge of:
- Azure (MODCloud ACE/i-ACE)
- AWS (MODCloud ICE)
- Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (MODCloud OCE)
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