Principal DevOps Engineer — Secure Platform Automation Lead

Leonardo S.p.A.; Bristol; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexi-time leave

Pension up to 15%

Mental health support

Bonus scheme

Online courses (Coursera/LinkedIn)

Flexible benefits budget

Flexible working

Job summary

Leonardo UK is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead automation, platform engineering and secure delivery across defence and government programmes. The role demands hands-on engineering coupled with technical authority, mentoring teams and driving DevSecOps practices in highly controlled environments.

You will engage with customers and internal teams to design, implement and operate CI/CD pipelines, IaC and platform automation, while ensuring compliance and security requirements are

Qualifications

• Experience designing, implementing and operating CI/CD pipelines in regulated environments.
• Strong skills in IaC, platform automation and secure software delivery.
• Leadership and mentoring of DevOps engineers across multiple teams.
• Experience with DevSecOps and integrating security controls into pipelines.
• Proven ability to operate in highly controlled defence/government environments.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical authority for automation, DevOps and platform practices across projects.
• Lead design and improvements of CI/CD pipelines and IaC implementations.
• Develop secure deployment pipelines for controlled environments.
• Collaborate with Platform, Security, Architects and Project Teams to automate infrastructure and apps.
• Promote DevSecOps adoption and security controls in the lifecycle.
• Capture requirements and produce high/low level designs as needed.
• Provide technical leadership for work packages, including planning and delivery oversight.
• Drive automation and engineering best practices across platform teams.
• Mentor DevOps and junior engineers to raise capability.
• Support assessments, feasibility studies and future capability planning.
• Engage with customers and stakeholders to defend and assure solutions.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

IaC

Platform automation

DevOps leadership

DevSecOps

Cloud platforms

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Terraform

Ansible

VMware Aria Automation

Job description

Leonardo UK is seeking a Principal DevOps Engineer to lead automation, platform engineering and secure delivery across defence and government programmes. The role demands hands-on engineering coupled with technical authority, mentoring teams and driving DevSecOps practices in highly controlled environments.

You will engage with customers and internal teams to design, implement and operate CI/CD pipelines, IaC and platform automation, while ensuring compliance and security requirements are