Senior Software Engineer; DevSecOps

Job Requisition

Job Closing Date: 01/09/2026

Cardiff, G , CF10 1FT

Glasgow, G , G511DA

London, G , W1A 1AA

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, G , NE991RN

Salford, G , M50 2QH

JOB TITLE:

Senior Software Engineer, Dev Sec Ops

JOB BAND: D

CONTRACT TYPE:
Permanent, Full-time

DEPARTMENT:
Media Technology, Development Operations, Dev Sec Ops

LOCATION:

UK wide
- London, Salford, Cardiff, Newcastle or Glasgow
- Hybrid (1 day per week in the office)

PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: £70,000 - £80,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.

London Weighting: £5,441 on top of base salary for London office only

Join Media Technology's Dev Operations team as a Senior Software Engineer, Dev Sec Ops . You'll operate and evolve the platforms and workflows that help engineering teams understand, own and reduce security risk across applications and cloud services. This is a hands‑on role spanning vulnerability management, platform ownership, software engineering, integrations and automation, with opportunities to apply emerging AI‑assisted capabilities where they can improve security and engineering outcomes.

Dev Operations works across Media Technology to improve how engineering risk is understood and managed 'll help shape a growing security engineering capability, combining platform ownership with software engineering to make vulnerability management more effective and easier for teams to adopt. You'll have room to influence technical direction, build reusable patterns and explore practical uses of AI and automation in security operations.

• Operate and evolve security posture and vulnerability-management platforms, including configuration, access, integrations, data quality, risk policies and reporting.
• Own the technical implementation of vulnerability-management workflows, from prioritisation and assignment through to risk treatment, resolution and reporting.
• Monitor platform health and effectiveness, investigate data and integration issues, and work with suppliers where product support or changes are required.
• Design, build and operate integrations and automation that connect security findings with the technical and organisational context needed to make them actionable.
• Work with engineering teams and technical leaders to improve ownership, prioritisation and risk‑management outcomes, turning successful approaches into reusable patterns.
• Maintain strong engineering standards through automated testing, observability, documentation, technical review and operational support.
• Evaluate, prototype and integrate AI‑assisted capabilities where they can improve security analysis, prioritisation, remediation support or operational workflows.

• Hands‑on experience operating and improving vulnerability‑management, application‑security or other security platforms used by engineering teams.
• A strong understanding of the vulnerability‑management lifecycle, including prioritisation, ownership, risk treatment, resolution and reporting.
• Strong software engineering experience building and operating production services, integrations or automation using at least one modern programming language.
• Experience designing secure integrations and data flows across cloud environments using APIs, Infrastructure as Code, webhooks or event‑driven patterns, with attention to identity and access management, least‑privilege design, secrets, failure handling and operational monitoring.
• Strong technical judgement and communication skills, with experience working across engineering teams to shape designs, explain trade‑offs and deliver practical outcomes.

• Experience working in Dev Sec Ops , application security, security engineering or platform engineering.
• Experience building or operating shared technical capabilities used by multiple engineering teams.
• Experience adapting technical platforms to support different teams, workflows and reporting needs.
• Experience integrating security, engineering or operational data from multiple systems.
• Experience…