Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Role:
Senior Dev Sec Ops  Engineer Salary: £47,675 - £56,445 Grade: SEO

Location:

Cardiff (hybrid) The Opportunity

Yolk Recruitment are excited to be working with an innovation-driven civil service organisation as they journey through some incredible projects whilst working with one of the first fully cloud-based organizations.

This is a senior technical role responsible for improving how digital systems are built, deployed, secured, and operated across the organisation. Working across development, operations, and security teams, the role ensures services are delivered reliably, efficiently, and in line with governance and regulatory requirements.

The focus is on embedding strong Dev Sec Ops  practices, improving consistency and automation, and reducing risk while enabling faster and more predictable delivery. The role also supports long‑term technology planning, ensuring platforms are scalable, resilient, and fit for future needs.

• Design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines across cloud environments.
• Embed Dev Sec Ops  practices, including automated security testing and secure access controls.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure‑as‑Code to ensure consistent, scalable platforms.
• Design and deploy secure cloud services and networking.
• Integrate pipelines with organisational governance and change processes.
• Automate testing and deployments across environments.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, and reusable scripts.
• Troubleshoot delivery pipelines and mentor engineers in best practice.

• Support development of IT strategy and technical roadmaps.
• Contribute to disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Identify and manage technical risks, ensuring compliance with policies and controls.
• Maintain governance artefacts and support audits and accreditation.
• Ensure systems remain secure, resilient, and up to date.

• Proven experience applying Dev Sec Ops  methodologies and working with CI/CD tools (e.g. Azure Dev Ops).
• Experience embedding security controls into delivery pipelines, including management of Role‑Based Access Control (RBAC).
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. Azure), Infrastructure‑as‑Code (Terraform, ARM, Bicep), and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficient with version control systems and scripting or programming languages (e.g. Power Shell, C#, Type Script).
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex systems and lead incident investigation and resolution across diverse technology stacks.

• 31 days annual leave + Bank Holidays, and 2 Privilege days
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Generous employer contribution of 28.97%
• Time off for wellbeing activities
• Green car scheme
• Cycle2
  
  Work and season travel tickets
• Access to subsidised sports groups

If you think this Senior Dev Sec Ops  Engineer officer opportunity is for you then please apply online.

Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work.