SC Cleared Lead DevSecOps Engineer

SC Cleared Lead Dev Sec Ops  Engineer Rate:
Up to £600/day (Inside IR35) Clearance:
Active SC Clearance

Location:

Hybrid – Predominantly remote with occasional travel to London and Bristol Overview We are seeking an experienced, client-facing Lead Dev Sec Ops  Engineer to lead Dev Sec Ops  practices across a major defence digital transformation programme. You will drive secure, automated delivery across multiple products hosted within the MOD digital estate, including Azure, AWS and OCI environments.

Key Responsibilities Lead and standardise Dev Sec Ops  practices across teams delivering into the MODCloud estate. Design and implement secure CI/CD pipelines and Git Ops workflows for MODCloud-hosted products. Integrate security scanning, vulnerability management and compliance controls into delivery pipelines. Drive Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and automation best practices across MODCloud environments. Implement secrets management, IAM, monitoring, logging and audit capabilities aligned to MOD standards.

Collaborate with developers, testers and infrastructure teams to embed secure-by-design principles across MODCloud deployments. Support incident response, patching, compliance reporting and operational documentation for MODCloud platforms and services. Help coordinate release activity across integrated products deployed into Azure, AWS and OCI within MODCloud. Essential Skills & Experience Proven experience as a Lead Dev Sec Ops  Engineer in complex environments, ideally within government or defence.

Strong hands-on expertise with:
Git Hub Actions, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts Trivy, Hashi Corp Vault, cert-manager Docker, AWS EKS Terraform Grafana, Loki Python, Bash AWS IAM, S3 and networking fundamentals Public Strong stakeholder management and leadership skills. Experience leading distributed teams and working across cross-functional delivery teams. Highly

Desirable Experience delivering Dev Sec Ops  solutions within the MOD digital estate. Knowledge of Azure (MODCloud ACE/i-ACE), AWS (MODCloud ICE) and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (MODCloud OCE). Lead and standardise Dev Sec Ops  practices across teams delivering into the MODCloud estate. Design and implement secure CI/CD pipelines and Git Ops workflows for MODCloud-hosted products. Integrate security scanning, vulnerability management and compliance controls into delivery pipelines.

Drive Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and automation best practices across MODCloud environments. Implement secrets management, IAM, monitoring, logging and audit capabilities aligned to MOD standards.

Collaborate with developers, testers and infrastructure teams to embed secure-by-design principles across MODCloud deployments. Support incident response, patching, compliance reporting and operational documentation for MODCloud platforms and services. Help coordinate release activity across integrated products deployed into Azure, AWS and OCI within MODCloud.