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 life cycle.

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