DevSecOps Engineer (Contractor)

Friend MTS; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job description

Who are we?

Friend MTS stands as a trailblazer in content protection, marking its inception in 2006. Since then, we have consistently pioneered cutting-edge solutions, earning accolades and industry recognition. Our esteemed partnerships include collaborations with some of the globe's most prominent broadcasters, as we steadfastly secure content against piracy.

Our journey is fuelled by a team committed to innovation, propelling us into new frontiers. As our company continues to flourish, we reflect this growth internally. At Friend MTS, we lead with a spirit of curiosity, collaboration, and passion, and we invite you to embark on this exciting journey with us.

Job Overview:

We are seeking a highly skilled Security DevOps Contractor for a three-month engagement to enhance and automate our security infrastructure. You will work closely with our DevOps, Security, and Engineering teams to ensure robust security practices are seamlessly integrated into our CI/CD pipelines and cloud environments.

This is an exciting opportunity to contribute to a fast-paced, high-impact security initiative, ensuring the resilience and security of our systems while optimising performance and automation. Working as part of a team, the ideal candidate should be able to work independently, think on their feet, and proactively address security challenges.

Key Responsibilities:

1. CI/CD Pipeline Deployments: Create deployment pipelines to deploy AWS infrastructure and EKS services.
2. Cloud Security: Implement security best practices in an AWS environment, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
3. Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Security: Secure Terraform and Terragrunt templates, ensuring least privilege and compliance with security best practices.

Essential Skills:

1. Strong Security & DevOps Expertise: Proven experience in securing DevOps pipelines, cloud infrastructure, and automating security processes.
2. Cloud Security Mastery: Hands-on experience securing AWS environments.
3. CI/CD Integration: Proficiency with GitLab CI/CD, or similar tools.
4. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Deep understanding of securing Terraform, Terragrunt, CloudFormation.
5. Amazon EKS & Kubernetes Security: Experience in designing, securing and managing Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (Amazon EKS) environments.
6. Independent & Proactive Mindset: Ability to work autonomously, to propose, test, implement and validate.
7. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
8. Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

Desirable Skills:

1. Understanding of software development lifecycle and methodologies.
2. Experience in using Atlassian products (Jira and Confluence).
3. Programming & Scripting: Proficiency in Python, Bash, or similar languages for security automation.

Experience:

2-3 years experience using AWS, EKS and Terraform.

Here at Friend MTS, we are dedicated to nurturing and expanding a culture of belonging where everyone feels seen, heard, valued for who they are. By embracing the diversity of our people (and future people!) we achieve our best work, together. We ensure that at all stages of our hiring process, your education level, neurodivergence, background, race, religion, colour, sex, age, sexual orientation, national origin, or disability will not influence your chances for selection.

If you are interested in applying for a role at Friend MTS and need special assistance, please make us aware and we will support you in accommodating this.