DevSecOps Capability Manager

## Dev Sec Ops  Capability Manager Apply locations:
Skipton, England time type:
Full time posted on:
Posted Yesterday job requisition :
JR3859##
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* Hours:

** 35 hours per week##
** Closing Date:
** Fri, 12 Jun 2026

As our Dev Sec Ops  Capability Manager, you’ll lead and scale Skipton’s Dev Sec Ops  capability to enable fast, safe and compliant software delivery across our product and platform teams. You will be accountable for embedding securebydesign principles, modern automation practices, and policyascode into our CI/CD ecosystem, ensuring that our engineering teams can deliver high quality change with confidence.

You will drive improvements in lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate and system reliability, all measured through our Engineering Scorecard. This role blends technical strategy, leadership, governance and handson capability development to strengthen our engineering foundations and support delivery of the Society’s Corporate Plan.
** What will you be doing?
**** Value, Flow & Quality
*** Owning lead time for changes and deployment frequency outcomes across shared pipelines and platforms.
* Publishing DORA and flow metrics monthly, using them to drive targeted improvements.
* Removing delivery bottlenecks through automation and policyascode, including trunk based development, automated approvals for lowrisk changes, canary/bluegreen deployment and autorollback.
* Triggering “scorecard → investment” actions when performance thresholds are breached to restore flow, quality and reliability.
** Leadership & Capability Development
*** Leading, coaching and developing a team of 3–5 Dev Sec Ops  Engineers.
* Defining and maintaining Dev Sec Ops  standards, patterns and best practices across engineering teams.
* Building a high performing engineering culture focused on security, automation and continuous improvement.
** Strategy, Governance & Technical Direction
*** Setting the strategy for Dev Sec Ops  capabilities, including pipeline standardisation and security automation.
* Establishing governance for secure CI/CD, infrastructureascode and cloud delivery.
* Defining and enforcing Observability Minimum Standards including tracing, SLOs, release linked annotations and dashboards.
* Mandating securityinthepipeline, including secrets protection, SAST/SCA/DAST, IaC scanning and WAF coverage for external apps.
* Governing Golden Path (ProdOS) templates, patterns and adoption levels.
** Operational Oversight & Risk Management
*** Overseeing the reliability, performance and security posture of pipelines, platforms and engineering tooling.
* Ensuring effective vulnerability management, including remediation tracking and escalation.
* Providing leadership during incidents and postincident reviews, improving MTTR and rootcause clarity.
* Integrating telemetry across Azure, Defender, Entra and WAF to unify our security posture.
* Using SLO/error budget signals and observability insights to inform go/nogo and rollback decisions.
** Collaboration Across Technology & Business
*** Acting as a senior advisor to Engineering Managers, Product Owners and Cyber Security teams.
* Ensuring strong alignment on security requirements, delivery processes and adoption of modern practices.
* Representing Dev Sec Ops  across governance forums and contributing to technology wide decisions.
* Acting as a visible advocate for safe, rapid delivery and sharing best practice internally and externally.
** Tooling, Automation & Platform Optimisation
*** Leading decisions on Dev Sec Ops  tooling, including evaluation and lifecycle management.
* Driving automation across testing, security scanning, deployment, monitoring and compliance.
* Partnering with Cloud and Platform Engineering to ensure scalable, resilient and consistent Dev Sec Ops  ecosystems.
* Owning the Golden Path service catalogue, including pipelines, IaC modules and secure defaults.
** Business Continuity & Operational Resilience
*** Embedding BCP and operational resilience controls directly as policyascode.
* Ensuring pipelines produce auditready evidence for regulated environments.
* Running periodic gamedays with Release & Environments teams to validate recoverability.
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