Principal DevSecOps Engineer — Secure CI/CD Leader

Leonardo Worldwide Corporation; Luton; Hybrid; GBP 54,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

Leonardo UK in the United Kingdom is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (DevSecOps) to accelerate secure software delivery across defence and security programmes.

You will lead and mentor teams, drive automation, and shape our enterprise DevSecOps capabilities across cloud, on‑prem, and hybrid environments.

The role focuses on designing development and deployment environments, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring secure-by-design throughout the software lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Systems Engineering or related discipline.
• Hands-on CI/CD experience and tooling.
• Experience with cloud, on-premises and hybrid environments with security considerations.
• Experience with enterprise DevOps and DevSecOps tools supporting modern software delivery.
• Background in software engineering, platform engineering, IT operations or 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 to mentor and influence technical teams.
• Passion for automation, continuous improvement and engineering excellence.

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 the 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

CI/CD practices

Agile development

Communication skills

Mentorship

Automation

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Software/Systems

Job description

Leonardo UK in the United Kingdom is seeking a Principal Software Engineer (DevSecOps) to accelerate secure software delivery across defence and security programmes.

You will lead and mentor teams, drive automation, and shape our enterprise DevSecOps capabilities across cloud, on‑prem, and hybrid environments.

The role focuses on designing development and deployment environments, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring secure-by-design throughout the software lifecycle.