Lead DevSecOps Engineer

Lead Dev Sec Ops  Engineer

Any UK office location.

We are recruiting a Lead Dev Sec Ops  Engineer to shape, build, and drive the firm’s Dev Sec Ops  capability across Technology Services. The role involves embedding agile, modern, and secure engineering practices across Security, Operations, and Solutions. The successful candidate will define how Dev Sec Ops  operates within the firm, take ownership of its delivery, and play a key role in evolving capability, tooling and maturity.

This is a hands‑on technology leadership role, initially balancing approximately 80% hands‑on delivery with 20% technology leadership, with the expectation to evolve over time. You will work with a high degree of autonomy, driving initiatives forward, contributing to quarterly planning, and influencing stakeholders at all levels. You will also mentor and guide a small existing team and collaborate with a delivery partner for additional capacity and capability.

The role can be based at any of our UK offices, with standard working hours of 9.30am‑5.30pm, following a 3 days in the office, 2 days from home working model. Flexible working requests are considered.

• Proven experience in Dev Sec Ops , Dev Ops or security engineering, including designing and running secure delivery pipelines
• Strong hands‑on expertise with CI/CD tooling, including SAST, DAST and software composition analysis
• Experience working with cloud platforms (primarily Microsoft Azure) and Azure Dev Ops pipelines
• Practical knowledge of infrastructure‑as‑code, particularly Terraform, including security scanning and policy‑as‑code
• Experience securing containerised environments and Kubernetes workloads
• Broad technical understanding across development, security and operations (Dev/Sec/Ops), with the ability to operate across all three areas