Principal DevSECOps Engineer

Job Description

The Leonardo Cyber Security Division is looking to recruit a Principal Dev Sec Op  Engineer to join its UK based engineering team working within a highly secure environment; with responsibility for providing a bridge between software development, testing, infrastructure, operations and system administrators to facilitate efficient, continuous and high-quality software and environment delivery.

The processes and tooling implemented by the Principal Dev Sec Ops  Engineer will enable source code and associated artefacts to be installed and configured on scalable infrastructure across environments which comply to strict security regulations. The Principal Dev Sec Ops  Engineer will typically combine the skills of software coding and / or scripting, process reengineering and infrastructure provisioning with exemplary leadership, team working and communication skills.

The Principal Dev Sec Ops  Engineer should have a good breadth of knowledge across the disciplines of software development and how software and infrastructure is deployed.

The ideal candidate will have demonstrable experience of performing in a similar strategic and leading Dev Sec Ops  position, and preferably working in a secure environment. You will possess a strong all round technical ability with an excellent working knowledge of platform capability area for Cloud / Hybrid and on-premise network and systems infrastructure technologies. An awareness of cyber security capabilities is advantageous.

You will need to have strong experience in owning and overseeing the building, implementing and maintaining of systems with complex architectures on client site; with on-going proactive operational support, and working closely with key stakeholders and end users. Working within a specialist skilled engineering team providing 1st to 3rd line support to the client.

These roles demand excellent technical skills with the responsibility to support, maintain and operate systems while conforming to industry best practice and / or Leonardo best practices and technical designs. The principal role will require excellent leadership and team working attributes but also requires the ability to take accountability to work independently.

Projects will be from the full systems engineering lifecycle from Concept Exploration through to In-Service Support providing the opportunity to develop your experience while supporting the requirements management, system architecture and design, subsystem design and development, system integration, test and acceptance and specialist technical support.

As a Principal Dev Sec Ops  Engineer within the Cyber Division, you will typically be working as part of a larger Project team including the design, development and testing of secure systems, including but not limited to, Information Management Systems, Command and Control systems, Security Monitoring of IT, IoT and CNI systems and services.

These roles will have the ability to take ownership / implement the Dev Sec Ops  side of the engineering delivery of one or more work packages, including the planning, estimation, execution and progress reporting of own workload and that of other team members.

• Assist in the overall implementation of new software / applications / packing for the Cyber division.
• Analyse requirements, design, implement and unit test software code and supporting artefacts using appropriate tools.
• As required, lead on software / application development activities.
• Plan and undertake installations on development, test, reference and operational environments.
• Deliver consistent high-quality software and environmental builds through automation.
• Creation and maintenance of automaton frameworks for software and / or environment provisioning and ongoing operation.
• Managing and controlling software configuration for projects including the source repository.
• Implement and maintain of Continuous Integration (CI) and / or Build pipelines where appropriate.
• Understand change control and release management practices.
• Ensure high availability and security of systems through robust monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Assist in data engineering…