Principal DevSecOps Engineer - Secure, Automated Delivery

Leonardo; Basildon; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid working

Job summary

Leonardo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (DevSecOps) to accelerate secure software delivery across defence and security programmes. You will shape and evolve enterprise DevSecOps capabilities, enable rapid, reliable updates, and champion secure-by-design practices.

You will mentor teams, drive automation, and oversee CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and deployment processes across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• 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.
• Experience with enterprise DevOps and DevSecOps tools supporting modern software delivery.
• Background in software engineering, platform engineering, IT operations or a related discipline.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the delivery and evolution of Leonardo's enterprise-wide DevSecOps platform.
• Support and mentor teams adopting DevSecOps practices, tools and ways of working.
• Contribute to planning and implementation of DevSecOps capabilities across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.
• Design, deploy and maintain development, test and operational environments.
• Drive automation across software delivery and infrastructure provisioning to improve quality, consistency and efficiency.
• Develop and maintain automation frameworks, CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Apply effective change, configuration and release management practices.
• Support deployed services, ensuring high levels of performance, security and availability.
• Collaborate with engineers, platform teams and stakeholders to improve delivery capability and engineering practices.
• Champion secure-by-design principles across the software development lifecycle.

Skills

DevSecOps

CI/CD

Cloud platforms

Security by design

Agile

Mentoring

Communication

Education

Degree in Computer Science

Tools

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as code

Job description

Leonardo is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (DevSecOps) to accelerate secure software delivery across defence and security programmes. You will shape and evolve enterprise DevSecOps capabilities, enable rapid, reliable updates, and champion secure-by-design practices.

You will mentor teams, drive automation, and oversee CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, and deployment processes across cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments.