Head of DevSecOps - Fixed Term Contract

Livestock Information; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading organization in livestock data seeks a Head of DevSecOps to manage IT operations and security across cloud environments. The role emphasizes fostering a DevSecOps culture, ensuring compliance with security standards, and leading a high-performing team. Ideal candidates will have proven leadership in IT operations and extensive Azure/M365 expertise, and are committed to driving continuous improvement and innovation.

Benefits

Fully remote and flexible working set-up

25 days annual leave plus bank holidays

Market-leading pension scheme

Enhanced Family Friendly Policies

Excellent learning and career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience managing complex IT operations focused on cloud services.
• Hands-on experience with Azure and M365.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy and implementation of IT operations and security management.
• Oversee design and optimization of infrastructure and automate processes.
• Maintain security compliance with standards like ISO 27001.

Skills

Proven IT Operations Leadership

Expertise in Cloud Technologies

Operational Excellence

Strategic Vision

Stakeholder Engagement

Line Management Experience

Commitment to Excellence

Tools

Azure

M365

Job description

Salary

The salary for this role is £70,000.

Contract

This role is advertised on a 12‑month fixed‑term contract.

About the Role

Would you relish the challenge of embedding a true DevSecOps culture across an ambitious, tech‑driven organisation? Are you passionate about leveraging automation and cloud innovation to deliver secure, scalable, and high‑performing services? Can you inspire technical excellence while balancing innovation, governance, and continuous improvement? If so, we’d love to hear from you!

At Livestock Information Ltd, our mission is to be an outstanding service provider of livestock data, empowering government, industry, and farmers to effectively manage disease and infection control while enhancing productivity and innovation in agriculture. To achieve this, we need great people who share our values.

Head of DevSecOps – Overview

As Head of DevSecOps, you will lead the strategy, implementation, and continuous improvement of our IT operations and security management across cloud‑based solutions – primarily within Azure and Microsoft 365 environments.

You will be responsible for ensuring the stability, security, and efficiency of our IT services, safeguarding digital assets, maintaining compliance with relevant industry standards (including ISO 27001), and supporting seamless DevOps practices across the organisation.

The ideal candidate will champion a DevSecOps mindset, embedding security and automation into every stage of our development and operational processes. You will collaborate closely with cross‑functional teams to integrate robust security controls from the outset, enhance processes and playbooks, and strengthen our overall security posture.

Key Responsibilities

• Strategy & Leadership: Defining, championing, and executing the company’s DevOps and cloud roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives and emphasising system optimisation and pioneering innovation.
• Team Management: Leading, mentoring, and nurturing a high‑performing team of DevOps, Identity and Integration Engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• Azure Cloud Services Management: Overseeing the design, implementation, and optimisation of secure, scalable, and cost‑efficient infrastructure. Driving adoption of services and ensuring compliance with disaster‑recovery plans.
• Automation & CI/CD: Instilling and enforcing Infrastructure‑as‑Code principles. Continuously improving and automating CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and frequent software releases.
• Site Reliability: Establishing and tracking key reliability metrics (SLAs). Overseeing monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, disaster recovery, and capacity planning to maintain availability, performance, and security of live services.
• Facilitating Business Change: Supporting new business initiatives and service improvements, implementing both Waterfall and Agile methodologies, utilising Azure DevOps for comprehensive backlog management, pipeline integration, and test plans.
• Security & Compliance: Integrating security best practices into the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Ensuring compliance with relevant industry standards (GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2) critical for an enterprise SaaS company dealing with sensitive client data.
• Cost Optimisation (FinOps): Managing cloud spending effectively, identifying and implementing cost‑saving measures without compromising performance or reliability.
• Continuous Service Improvement: Actively seeking opportunities for enhancement and collaborating across service teams to support the Service Continuous Service Improvement Programme. This initiative elevates service performance, reduces operational costs, minimises technical debt, and bolsters security measures.

Requirements

• Proven IT Operations Leadership: Demonstrable experience managing complex IT operations with a strong emphasis on cloud services and support management.
• Expertise in Cloud Technologies: Extensive hands‑on experience with Azure and M365, from architecture, design, build and test, release to service management.
• Operational Excellence: Track record of enhancing IT service delivery, managing change portfolios, and upholding IT security protocols and build standards.
• Strategic Vision: Adept at translating IT capabilities into strategic business advantages.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Skilled at building strong relationships and influencing across organisational boundaries to foster collaboration.
• Line Management Experience: Experienced in leading internal teams and managing contract service providers, including Azure DevSecOps engineers, service architects, full‑stack software engineers, test engineers, delivery managers, scrum masters, and business analysts.
• Commitment to Excellence: Dedicated to driving innovation, embedding best practices, and upholding the highest standards of compliance and security.

Benefits

• Fully remote and flexible working set‑up.
• 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service up to a maximum of 30 days (plus Bank Holidays).
• 1 Privilege Day.
• 4× annual salary Life Assurance.
• Market‑leading pension scheme through Legal & General.
• Enhanced Family Friendly Policies.
• Excellent learning, training, and career development opportunities.
• 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme.
• A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued.

Application and Interview Process

To apply for this role, submit a CV and answer some pre‑screening questions. The interview and assessment process will include a telephone interview with our Talent Team, followed by a first‑stage and a final‑stage interview, conducted either remotely via MS Teams or face‑to‑face.

If we need to make a reasonable adjustment so that you can complete your application, please contact us at [e-mail] before the closing date to discuss your needs.

The closing date for this role is 4 pm on Monday, 10th November. Applications received after the closing date will not be considered. We may close the advert early if we receive a high volume of applications.

Values

We approach our work with TACT; we are Transparent, Accountable, Committed and we work as a Team. We embrace honesty, build trust, and drive change with passion, commitment and enthusiasm to deliver a great service to the livestock industry. We work kindly and cohesively, allowing us to support each other in personal and strategic goals.

Remote Working

We are a fully remote organisation; however, roles are UK‑based and must be performed within the UK. We meet in person once a quarter for All Hands events and occasional additional team meet‑ups.

Diversity Statement

At Livestock Information, we value diversity and believe that every individual brings different strengths. We understand that not everyone may possess every skill outlined in this job description, but if you believe you have a solid skill set that enables you to excel in this position, we encourage you to apply.

Further Information

If you feel your application has not been treated fairly and openly or if you are dissatisfied with any interactions during the recruitment process and wish to make a complaint, contact our Talent team via email: [e-mail].

Disclaimer

Livestock Information Ltd. cannot sponsor work visas at this time.

Livestock Information Ltd. does not discriminate based on race, sex, colour, religion, age, national origin, marital status, disability, veteran status, genetic information, sexual orientation, gender identity or any other reason prohibited by law in the provision of employment opportunities and benefits.

Livestock Information Ltd. does not accept unsolicited CVs from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited CVs not originating directly from a candidate and sent to Livestock Information Ltd or any Livestock Information Ltd employees, including unsolicited CVs sent to a Livestock Information Ltd mailing address or email address, are rejected. Livestock Information Ltd will NOT pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited CV. Livestock Information Ltd considers any candidate for whom the recruiter has submitted an unsolicited CV referred by the company free of any fees.