Lead DevSecOps Engineer

Bloom & Wild; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working hours

Hybrid or remote working

Up to 45 days abroad

Health cash plan

Equity option

Flexible training framework

Nursery scheme

Product discounts

Job summary

Bloom & Wild, Europe’s largest direct-to-consumer flower and gifting business, is seeking its first Lead DevSecOps Engineer to own security across the product and technology estate. You will define a 12–18 month security roadmap and embed secure practices as the default option for engineers.

You’ll balance strategic governance with hands-on work, partnering with DX to secure CI/CD pipelines, and you’ll lead security initiatives across AWS (ECS/Fargate) and GCP while addressing AI security

Qualifications

• Deep experience embedding security into fast-moving product engineering environments.
• Experience with AWS (ECS/Fargate) and GCP security.
• Hands-on with infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD security, and policy-as-code.

Responsibilities

• Define security roadmap and governance for 12–18 months.
• Embed security into CI/CD pipelines and developer experience.
• Hardening authentication and securing AI workflows; address prompt injections and data leakage.

Skills

AWS (ECS/Fargate)

GCP

Infrastructure as code

CI/CD security

Least-privilege identity

Policy as code

Continuous monitoring

Agentic coding tools (AI)

Security roadmap & governance

Tools

Terraform

Datadog

Code & security tooling

Job description

Location: UK, Netherlands, or Remote (Europe)
Tech Stack: AWS (Fargate/ECS), GCP, Ruby on Rails, Angular, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Datadog

About Tech At Bloom & Wild Group

We’re Europe’s largest direct-to-consumer flower and gifting business (incorporating Bloom & Wild, bloomon, and Bergamotte). Our 65+ person Tech team builds the software powering our e-commerce platforms, production, and delivery logistics across Europe. You can read more here at Code & Wild.

The Role

As our first Lead DevSecOps Engineer, you’ll own security across our product and technology estate. Operating at the Lead level and reporting into our Engineering Director, you'll act as a deep subject matter specialist, defining our 12–18 month security roadmap and embedding security into our "paved road" so doing the secure thing is the fast, default option for every engineer.

You'll split your time roughly between:

• Strategic Security Roadmap & Governance: Defining priorities (OWASP SAMM audits), managing vendors, responsible disclosures, and advising leadership on risk trade-offs with commercial clarity.
• Shift-Left Controls & Developer Experience: Partnering with DX to build security into CI/CD pipelines (code/dependency scanning, secrets management, policy-as-code, feature flagging).
• AI-First Security & Hands-On Engineering: Hardening authentication, securing agentic AI workflows against prompt injection and data leakage, and using agentic coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor) to accelerate remediation.

What We're Looking For...

• Deep experience embedding security into fast-moving product engineering environments across AWS (ECS/Fargate) and GCP.
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD security, least-privilege identity, policy-as-code, and continuous monitoring.
• Real, personal experience using agentic coding tools to accelerate security workflows, and a strong awareness of how to secure AI systems themselves.
• Ability to operate as an individual contributor/expert without a team beneath you, influencing squads and translating technical risk for senior stakeholders with candour and clarity.

Don't check every box? Please apply anyway! We hire for potential and diverse perspectives over exhaustive checklists.

Perks & Benefits

• Flexibility: Core hours (10–4), hybrid or remote working, plus up to 45 days per year to work abroad.
• Time Off: 25 days holiday + birthday + flexible bank holidays + a volunteering day + a day for wedding or moving house + the option to buy more annual leave
• Growth & Support: Health cash plan, equity option, flexible training framework, workplace nursery scheme, and generous product discounts

How We Hire

• Initial Chat (30-min call with our Talent Acquisition Manager)
• Manager Interview (Deep dive on security strategy, posture, and squad partnership with our Engineering Director )
• Technical Session (Live technical exercise with Platform & Engineering team members)
• Final Chat with our Chief Product & Tech Officer

(Need interview adjustments? Just let us know in your application, we're happy to support you however you need.)

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.