DevSecOps Security Consultant (FS Industry)

Square One Resources
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
2 weeks ago
£464 – £514 pd

Salary

£464 – £514 pd

Job Type
Contract
Work Location
Hybrid
Seniority
Senior
Education
Degree
Security Clearance
Required
Posted
22 Apr 2026 (2 weeks ago)

Job Title: DevSecOps Security Consultant

Location: Sheffield or Birmingham (hybrid - 3 days per week)

Salary/Rate: £(Apply online only) per day inside IR35

Start Date: May

Job Type: Initial contract until 18/05/2027

Company Introduction

We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled DevSecOps Security Consultant to join their client at a Tier 1 bank in either Sheffield or Birmingham on a hybrid basis.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cybersecurity SME / Consultant to join the Engineering Excellence and Enablement team. The successful candidate will work across global engineering platforms to benchmark, uplift, and continuously evolve cybersecurity maturity. The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring that build systems, runtime infrastructure, and developer tooling are secure by design, while enabling rapid and resilient software delivery across the bank.

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the cybersecurity posture of engineering platforms at one of the world?s leading financial institutions, ensuring the bank can deliver digital services securely, reliably, and at scale.

Framework and Assessment

Develop and maintain an Engineering-Platform Cybersecurity Maturity Framework to standardise assessments across platforms.

Conduct comprehensive platform security reviews (build systems, CI/CD pipelines, runtime infrastructure, developer tooling) against defined framework criteria.

Perform threat modelling and gap analysis, identifying vulnerabilities and systemic risks impacting source code, artifacts, and workloads.Engineering Platform Security Enablement

Establish standardised secure architecture and engineering patterns for build systems, CI/CD pipelines, runtime environments, and developer tooling.

Define and enforce platform security baselines using policy-as-code and automated controls.

Partner with platform owners to remediate critical gaps and implement scalable solutions for artifact integrity, access control, and configuration security.

Integrate vulnerability management, SBOM, provenance, and code-signing practices within engineering workflows.Roadmap Development & Execution

Prioritise identified gaps based on business risk, regulatory impact, and operational criticality.

Collaborate with platform owners and engineering leads to build actionable security roadmaps, balancing quick wins with long-term strategic improvements.

Partner with engineering teams to design, develop, and embed security patterns and best practices into engineering platforms.Stakeholder Engagement & Governance

Serve as a trusted advisor to platform owners, senior technology stakeholders, and Cybersecurity leadership, translating technical risks into business impact.

Represent the function in key governance forums, providing updates on maturity progress, roadmap delivery, and risk posture.

Influence and align stakeholders across federated engineering teams to ensure consistent adoption of cybersecurity best practices.Continuous Improvement

Track and report maturity scores, ensuring measurable improvement across platforms.

Continuously evolve the maturity framework in response to emerging threats, technology evolution, and regulatory expectations.

Drive a culture of secure-by-design engineering through engagement, advocacy, and knowledge sharing.Required Skills/Experience

The ideal candidate will have the following:

Proven expertise in Cybersecurity within large-scale, regulated financial institutions or similarly complex environments.

Deep technical knowledge of engineering platforms, including CI/CD systems, build tools, artifact repositories, runtime environments, and developer tooling.

Strong experience with DevSecOps practices, including secure pipeline design, integration of security scanning tools, and automation of security controls.

Strong knowledge and understanding of service mesh, cryptography, network security, application security, vulnerability management, and risk management.

Demonstrable ability to conduct threat modelling, platform security assessments, and gap analysis.

Experience building and implementing maturity models, frameworks, or roadmaps in complex enterprise environments.

Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership and drive change across federated technology teams.

Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical risk into business impact.Desirable Skills/Experience

Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:

Professional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSK, CCSP, or equivalent.

Hands-on knowledge of cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes).

Experience in international and diverse environments, with exposure to regulatory engagement.

Familiarity with engineering excellence practices such as SLSA, supply chain security, SBOM, or secure developer tooling initiatives.If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer

Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement

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