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. 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 • Public • Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills. • Experience leading distributed teams and working across cross-functional delivery teams. Highly Desirable • Experience delivering DevSecOps solutions within the MOD digital estate. • Knowledge of Azure (MODCloud ACE/i-ACE), AWS (MODCloud ICE) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (MODCloud OCE). • 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.