Lead DevSecOps Engineer

Job title: Lead DevSecOps Engineering Lead (MOD / MODCloud)

Rate: £645 per day inside ir35

Location: Remote

Contract 6 months+

Active SC security clearance is required for this role

We're looking for a Lead DevSecOps Engineer to take a key role on a major UK MOD digital transformation programme, working with a leading technology partner delivering secure digital products into the Defence environment.

This is a genuinely high-impact MODCloud role, spanning multiple cloud estates and products across the MOD digital landscape, you'll help engineer and govern will be deployed across the MOD digital estate (MODCloud), including:

Microsoft Azure - MODCloud ACE / i-ACE

AWS - MODCloud ICE

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - OCI / MODCloud OCE

You'll help establish consistent, secure and automated DevSecOps practices across multiple products and engineering teams, embedding security, compliance and automation throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

Responsibilities:

Lead and embed DevSecOps engineering practices across multiple MOD digital products

Design and govern secure CI/CD and GitOps pipelines

Integrate security scanning, vulnerability management and compliance controls

Drive Infrastructure as Code using Terraform

Work across Kubernetes / Docker / AWS EKS

Implement secrets, identity and access management using technologies such as HashiCorp Vault

Establish observability, monitoring, logging and audit controls

Develop secure-by-design engineering practices aligned to MOD security requirements

Coordinate DevSecOps engineers, developers, testers and infrastructure teams

Create and maintain security processes, technical standards and operational runbooks

Support incident response, patching, risk management and compliance activity

Expereince required:

You'll need strong hands-on experience across:

AWS | Kubernetes/EKS | Terraform | GitHub Actions | GitOps | Argo CD | Docker | Vault | Trivy | cert-manager | Grafana | Loki | Python | Bash

You'll also need:

Proven DevSecOps leadership experience

UK Government / GDS delivery experience

Strong stakeholder and communication skills

Experience working across distributed engineering teams

If you're an SC-cleared DevSecOps Lead who wants to work on genuinely mission-critical MOD technology, please feel free to submit your CV