DevSecOps Capability Manager

Are you passionate about driving secure, high-performing software delivery at scale? This is a fantastic opportunity to lead and evolve a Dev Sec Ops  capability within a forward-thinking organisation, enabling fast, safe, and compliant delivery across multiple engineering teams.

As the Dev Sec Ops  Capability Manager, you’ll lead and scale Dev Sec Ops  practices across the organisation, embedding secure-by-design principles, modern automation, and policy-as-code into the CI/CD ecosystem.

You’ll play a pivotal role in improving engineering performance, focusing on DORA metrics such as lead time, deployment frequency, and reliability. This role blends technical leadership, strategy, governance, and hands‑on capability development.

• Own and improve lead time and deployment frequency across platforms
• Publish and act on DORA and flow metrics
• Remove bottlenecks through automation and policy-as-code
• Drive performance improvements via engineering scorecards

• Lead, coach, and develop a team of Dev Sec Ops  Engineers
• Define standards, patterns, and best practices
• Foster a culture of security, automation, and continuous improvement

• Set Dev Sec Ops  strategy across pipelines and security automation
• Establish governance for CI/CD, IaC, and cloud delivery
• Define observability standards (SLOs, tracing, dashboards)
• Embed security into pipelines (SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets, IaC scanning)
• Govern "Golden Path" templates and adoption
• Oversee reliability, performance, and security of platforms and pipelines
• Lead vulnerability management and remediation
• Support incident response and post‑incident reviews
• Integrate telemetry across Azure ecosystem (Defender, Entra, WAF)
• Act as a senior advisor to engineering, product, and security teams
• Align stakeholders on delivery and security best practice
• Represent Dev Sec Ops  in governance forums
• Own Dev Sec Ops  tooling strategy and lifecycle
• Drive automation across testing, security, deployment, and monitoring
• Partner with Cloud and Platform teams
• Own and evolve the Golden Path service catalogue

• Embed resilience and BCP via policy-as-code
• Run recovery and resilience testing (game days)

• Strong leadership and people management experience
• Deep expertise in CI/CD, Dev Sec Ops , and security integration
• Strong cloud, containerisation, and IaC knowledge
• Proven ability to improve DORA and engineering performance metrics
• Experience with observability and monitoring frameworks
• Strong background in security tooling (SAST, SCA, DAST, scanning tools)
• Solid understanding of cloud security, IAM, and zero‑trust principles
• Experience working in complex or regulated environments
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills

• Impact: Lead a critical Dev Sec Ops  capability in a large-scale organisation
• Flexibility: Hybrid and flexible working options
• Career Growth: Ongoing learning, development, and leadership exposure
• Benefits Package: Annual discretionary bonus
• 25 days holiday + bank holidays + holiday trading
• Up to 10% matched pension
• Private medical insurance
• Electric car salary sacrifice scheme
• Inclusive employee networks

Apply today or reach out directly to Charlie Smith at  for a confidential chat.