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Lead Software Engineer – DevSecOps & Platform Automation

Job in Greater London, London, Greater London, W1B, England, UK
Listing for: Wolters Kluwer - Financial Services Solutions
Full Time position
Listed on 2026-10-08
Job specializations:
  • IT/Tech
    SRE/Site Reliability, Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations
Salary/Wage Range or Industry Benchmark: 90000 - 120000 GBP Yearly GBP 90000.00 120000.00 YEAR
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Location: Greater London

Role Overview

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer (Dev Sec Ops ) to drive the hands‑on delivery of automated, secure, and reliable software delivery capabilities across our product engineering organization. This role is responsible for building, operating, and continuously improving CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure automation, and embedded security controls that enable product teams to ship frequently, safely, and  will operate as a senior, hands‑on engineer and technical lead for a Dev Sec Ops  and platform automation team, turning Dev Sec Ops  strategy and reference architectures into working, production‑grade solutions.

You will guide and mentor engineers, own delivery of key platform capabilities, and partner closely with product teams, architects, and Security to embed best practices into day‑to‑day engineering.

Core Mission

Deliver the automation, pipelines, and platform capabilities that make secure, compliant, and reliable software delivery the default for every product team.

Key Responsibilities
  • CI/CD & Delivery Platform Engineering:
    Build, maintain, and continuously improve automated CI/CD pipelines for Microservices, APIs, and platform services;
  • Infrastructure-as-Code AI/ML and Agentic AI workloads:
    Implement and evolve reusable pipeline templates and blueprints that are secure by default, self‑service, and easy for product teams to adopt;
  • Implement progressive delivery capabilities, including blue‑green and canary deployments, feature flags, and controlled rollouts;
  • Own the day‑to‑day health, performance, and reliability of delivery pipelines, reducing build times and pipeline failures;
  • Onboard product teams and new services onto standard pipelines and platform blueprints;
  • Dev Sec Ops  & Supply Chain Security:
    Implement and tune security controls embedded in pipelines, including SAST, DAST, and SCA Container and image scanning, IaC security and policy checks, SBOM generation and verification;
  • Implement secure software supply chain practices, including provenance, artifact signing, dependency governance, and secrets management and rotation;
  • Work with Security teams to convert policies into automated, enforceable controls and quality gates;
  • Triage security findings with product teams, drive timely remediation, and reduce false positives and friction for developers;
  • Cloud, Infrastructure & Automation Engineer and maintain platform automation using Kubernetes and container platforms, Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Cloud Formation, ARM/Bicep, etc.), Git Ops patterns for infrastructure and application delivery;
  • Build and maintain reusable IaC modules and shared packages to reduce drift and standardise provisioning;
  • Automate secure, repeatable environment provisioning for dev, test, staging, and production, including multi‑tenant and regulated workloads;
  • Automate repetitive operational tasks to reduce engineer cognitive load and manual tickets;
  • Optimise pipelines and infrastructure for cost, speed, and reliability;
  • Observability, Reliability & Resilience:
    Integrate observability into delivery pipelines and platforms, including metrics, logs, and traces (e.g., Open Telemetry), deployment health checks, and automated rollback signals;
  • Implement and report on DORA and deployment reliability metrics (deployment frequency, lead time, change failure rate, MTTR);
  • Support SRE‑aligned practices such as error budgets, runbooks, and post‑incident reviews;
  • Participate in incident response and on‑call rotation for delivery and platform services, driving fast detection and recovery;
  • Contribute to disaster recovery automation and regular recovery testing;
  • Technical Leadership & Team Enablement:
    Act as technical lead for a Dev Sec Ops  and platform automation team, setting priorities, breaking down work,…
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