DevSecOps Security Consultant

Purview is a global leader in IT Engineering and Talent Solutions, trusted by Fortune 500 and mid-market clients across 21+ countries. Headquartered in Edinburgh, with delivery centres in India, our 1,200+ professionals drive meaningful digital transformation worldwide.

As a certified Ethnic Minority Business and Premier Member of MSDUK, we proudly blend diversity with deep technical expertise to deliver results that matter.

We’re currently hiring for the below role with one of our valued clients. If it aligns with your experience and aspirations, we’d love to hear from you!

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cybersecurity SME / Consultant to join the Engineering Excellence and Enablement team.

The successful candidate will work across global engineering platforms to benchmark, uplift, and continuously evolve cybersecurity maturity. The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring that build systems, runtime infrastructure, and developer tooling are secure by design, while enabling rapid and resilient software delivery across the bank.

This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the cybersecurity posture of engineering platforms at one of the world's leading financial institutions, ensuring the bank can deliver digital services securely, reliably, and at scale.

The role will be accountable for the following:

• Develop and maintain an Engineering-Platform Cybersecurity Maturity Framework to standardise assessments across platforms.
• Conduct comprehensive platform security reviews (build systems, CI/CD pipelines, runtime infrastructure, developer tooling) against defined framework criteria.
• Perform threat modelling and gap analysis
  , identifying vulnerabilities and systemic risks impacting source code, artifacts, and workloads.

• Establish standardised secure architecture and engineering patterns for build systems, CI/CD pipelines, runtime environments, and developer tooling.
• Define and enforce platform security baselines using policy-as-code and automated controls.
• Partner with platform owners to remediate critical gaps and implement scalable solutions for artifact integrity, access control, and configuration security.
• Integrate vulnerability management, SBOM, provenance, and code-signing practices within engineering workflows.

• Prioritise identified gaps based on business risk, regulatory impact, and operational criticality
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• Collaborate with platform owners and engineering leads to build actionable security roadmaps
  , balancing quick wins with long-term strategic improvements.
• Partner with engineering teams to design, develop, and embed security patterns and best practices into engineering platforms.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to platform owners, senior technology stakeholders, and Cybersecurity leadership
  , translating technical risks into business impact.
• Represent the function in key governance forums, providing updates on maturity progress, roadmap delivery, and risk posture
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• Influence and align stakeholders across federated engineering teams to ensure consistent adoption of cybersecurity best practices.
• Track and report maturity scores
  , ensuring measurable improvement across platforms.
• Continuously evolve the maturity framework in response to emerging threats, technology evolution, and regulatory expectations
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• Drive a culture of secure-by-design engineering through engagement, advocacy, and knowledge sharing.

To be successful in this role you should have proven experience within the Technology sector with knowledge of the following skills:

• Proven expertise in Cybersecurity within large-scale, regulated financial institutions or similarly complex environments.
• Deep technical knowledge of engineering platforms
  , including CI/CD systems, build tools, artifact repositories, runtime environments, and developer tooling.
• Strong experience with Dev Sec Ops …