DevOps Engineer

Richmond Square Consulting Limited; Poole; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Pension

Private healthcare

Electric car scheme

Training & development

Career progression

Job summary

Richmond Square Consulting Limited in Poole is seeking a senior cloud security/DevSecOps lead to design and deliver secure cloud environments for high-assurance workloads.

The role requires leading architecture discussions, advising customers, and ensuring security across AWS/Azure/GCP with regular on-site presence in Hereford. Hybrid working is offered along with career development and security-focused programmes.

Qualifications

• We require strong commercial experience in DevSecOps/Cloud security roles.
• Proven leadership in large AWS implementations or migrations in secure environments.
• Hands-on design/build of cloud environments for critical workloads.
• Deep understanding of cloud security, DevSecOps and secure architecture.

Responsibilities

• Design and deliver secure cloud environments for customer challenges.
• Lead architecture discussions and design exercises.
• Apply DevSecOps and cloud security best practices in high-assurance environments.
• Build deep customer relationships and work with technical teams.
• Help customers understand and solve cloud and security challenges.
• Make pragmatic engineering trade-offs while maintaining quality.
• Collaborate with customers and partners to gather requirements.
• Support secure delivery across cloud infrastructure and engineering teams.
• Promote knowledge sharing and engineering excellence.

Skills

DevSecOps

Cloud architecture

AWS

Leadership

Customer consulting

Communication

Security

Platform engineering

CI/CD

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements

• We need someone with strong commercial experience as a DevSecOps Engineer, Cloud Architect, Cloud Security Architect, or in a similar role.
• We need proven experience leading large AWS implementations or migrations in secure or high-assurance environments.
• We need hands-on expertise in designing and building cloud environments that run critical workloads.
• We need a strong understanding of cloud security, DevSecOps, and secure architecture principles.
• We need the ability to lead architectural discussions and influence technical direction.
• We need strong customer-facing consulting skills, including the ability to gather requirements and manage ambiguity.
• We need the ability to build strong relationships with customers and challenge established thinking where needed.
• We need strong presentation, communication, and knowledge-sharing skills.
• We need team leadership experience.
• We need active MOD SC clearance and willingness to undergo DV clearance.
• We need regular on-site presence in Hereford.
• Desired: AWS certifications at Associate level or above.
• Desired: experience in the national defence sector or other highly secure or regulated environments.
• Desired: broader cloud knowledge across Azure and/or GCP.
• Desired: strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code.
• Desired: experience with secure cloud migrations and modern platform design.
• Desired: familiarity with containerisation, platform engineering, and secure CI/CD environments.
• Desired: strong understanding of cloud governance, observability, and operational security practice.

Responsibilities

• We design and deliver secure cloud environments to meet customer challenges.
• We work across a mix of greenfield and brownfield projects.
• We lead architecture discussions and design exercises.
• We apply DevSecOps and cloud security best practice in high-assurance environments.
• We build deep customer relationships and work closely with technical and operational teams.
• We help customers understand, shape, and solve cloud and security challenges.
• We make pragmatic engineering trade-offs while maintaining strong technical quality.
• We collaborate with customers and partner suppliers to gather and shape requirements.
• We support secure delivery practices across cloud infrastructure, platforms, and engineering teams.
• We promote knowledge sharing, technical leadership, and engineering excellence.

Technologies

• AWS
• Architect
• Azure
• CI/CD
• Cloud
• DevSecOps
• GCP
• Support
• Security
• DevOps

More

We are a growing UK technology business delivering secure cloud and software solutions into the national defence sector. This is an opportunity to work on high-impact programmes supporting some of the UKs most complex and interesting security challenges. We offer a salary of £80,000 to £100,000, bonus, hybrid working, pension, private healthcare, an electric car scheme, training and development opportunities, a friendly and knowledgeable peer-sharing culture, career progression, and the chance to work on meaningful programmes in a highly secure environment. The role is based in Poole with hybrid working, and it requires regular on-site presence in Hereford.