DevSecOps Engineer – Cloud Security & Automation

Venquis; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Venquis is seeking a hands-on DevSecOps Security Engineer to strengthen its in-house security engineering capabilities. You will focus on practical engineering across Azure, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure, embedding security throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

You will work with Security, DevOps, Engineering and Product teams to implement and improve security controls, manage vulnerabilities and automate security processes.

Qualifications

• Hands-on DevSecOps experience in cloud security engineering.
• Practical experience securing Azure environments.
• Experience with Azure DevOps and CI/CD workflows.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and improve security tooling across Azure DevOps pipelines, including secrets scanning, SAST, dependency scanning, infrastructure‑as‑code scanning and container security.
• Triage security findings, support remediation and manage exceptions, ensuring risks are prioritised and tracked.
• Operate and improve Azure security controls, including Entra ID, RBAC/PIM, Key Vault, Log Analytics and Microsoft Defender for Cloud.
• Monitor cloud security posture, identify misconfigurations and vulnerabilities, and coordinate remediation with relevant teams.
• Support vulnerability management across applications, cloud infrastructure, containers and dependencies.
• Work with DevOps and Engineering teams to improve CI/CD security without creating unnecessary delivery friction.
• Automate security processes, reporting and evidence collection using tools such as PowerShell, Python, Azure CLI, Logic Apps or Functions.
• Develop and maintain security runbooks, operating procedures, dashboards and documentation.
• Support incident response and continually improve security controls based on findings and lessons learned.

Skills

DevSecOps

Cloud security

Azure

Azure DevOps

CI/CD

Security tooling

RBAC/PIM

PowerShell

Python

Azure CLI

Job description

Venquis is seeking a hands-on DevSecOps Security Engineer to strengthen its in-house security engineering capabilities. You will focus on practical engineering across Azure, Azure DevOps, CI/CD pipelines and cloud infrastructure, embedding security throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

You will work with Security, DevOps, Engineering and Product teams to implement and improve security controls, manage vulnerabilities and automate security processes.