Lead DevSecOps Engineer - Secure Cloud & CI/CD

Leonardo DRS; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 76,000 - 94,000; Full time

Job summary

Leonardo DRS in the United Kingdom is seeking a DevSecOps professional to deliver and evolve an enterprise-wide platform. You will mentor teams, implement DevSecOps capabilities across cloud, on‑premises and hybrid environments, and design automation for development, testing and operations.

You will drive CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks and secure deployment practices, contributing to high performance, security and availability across services.

Qualifications

• We require a degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related discipline with experience delivering software solutions in a complex engineering environment.
• Experience designing, building and operating secure-by-design environments.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD practices and tooling.
• Knowledge of cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments, including security considerations.
• Background in software engineering, platform engineering, IT operations or a related discipline.
• Experience with requirements management, configuration management and version control tools.
• Knowledge of infrastructure-as-code, automation and deployment technologies.
• Experience working within Agile development environments.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to mentor and influence technical teams.
• Passion for automation, continuous improvement and engineering excellence.

Responsibilities

• We contribute to the delivery and evolution of our enterprise-wide DevSecOps platform.
• We support and mentor teams adopting DevSecOps practices, tools and ways of working.
• We contribute to the planning and implementation of DevSecOps capabilities across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.
• We design, deploy and maintain development, test and operational environments.
• We drive automation across software delivery and infrastructure provisioning to improve quality, consistency and efficiency.
• We develop and maintain automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• We apply effective change, configuration and release management practices.
• We support deployed services, ensuring high levels of performance, security and availability.
• We collaborate with engineers, platform teams and stakeholders to improve delivery capability and engineering practices.
• We champion secure-by-design principles across the software development lifecycle.

Skills

CI/CD practices

Cloud and hybrid environments

DevSecOps

Agile development

Mentoring & leadership

Automation & engineering excellence

Security-by-design mindset

Education

Degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering / Systems Engineering

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code

Version control systems

Automation frameworks

Deployment technologies

Job description

Leonardo DRS in the United Kingdom is seeking a DevSecOps professional to deliver and evolve an enterprise-wide platform. You will mentor teams, implement DevSecOps capabilities across cloud, on‑premises and hybrid environments, and design automation for development, testing and operations.

You will drive CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks and secure deployment practices, contributing to high performance, security and availability across services.