Lead DevSecOps Engineer - Contract | Hybrid, UK Defence

Talent; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Talent seeks an experienced Lead DevSecOps Engineer on a 6-month contract in the UK. The role is hybrid, with roughly one day per week in London or Bristol/Bath, and a requirement for Active SC clearance.

You will drive secure, GitOps-enabled pipelines across a multi-cloud environment while leading a client-facing team. The successful candidate will embed security into every stage of delivery, coordinate across product teams, and ensure robust observability and compliance within AWS, Azure, and

Qualifications

• Experience leading DevSecOps for distributed teams.
• Hands-on with GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts.
• Proven security- and compliance-focused delivery in multi-cloud.
• UK Defence/public sector delivery preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement secure CI/CD pipelines with GitOps.
• Embed security controls across AWS, Azure, and OCI.
• Collaborate with developers and testers to ensure secure delivery.
• Create runbooks and documentation in Confluence.

Skills

Technical Leadership

GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

Cloud Native (Docker,EKS)

Security tooling

Automation (Python,Bash)

UK public sector delivery

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes (EKS)

Job description

Talent seeks an experienced Lead DevSecOps Engineer on a 6-month contract in the UK. The role is hybrid, with roughly one day per week in London or Bristol/Bath, and a requirement for Active SC clearance.

You will drive secure, GitOps-enabled pipelines across a multi-cloud environment while leading a client-facing team. The successful candidate will embed security into every stage of delivery, coordinate across product teams, and ensure robust observability and compliance within AWS, Azure, and