Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Salt; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in the tech industry seeks a highly skilled Senior DevSecOps Engineer in Greater London to drive security practices and streamline automation. The ideal candidate will play a crucial role in enhancing the security posture and efficiency of development teams. Responsibilities include driving a security-first culture, managing CI/CD pipelines, and utilizing innovative technologies to improve the workflow.

Qualifications

• 5+ years managing infrastructure in cloud environments like Azure and AWS.
• 3+ years in DevSecOps role with strong focus on automation and security.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

Responsibilities

• Drive shift left security culture and conduct security training.
• Manage CI/CD pipelines and secure Azure Kubernetes Clusters.
• Conduct SAST, DAST testing, and penetration testing.

Skills

Cloud Architecture

DevSecOps Practices

Security Testing

Infrastructure as Code

Containerization (Docker/Kubernetes)

Networking

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science

Tools

Terraform

Hashicorp Vault

Azure Kubernetes Service

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK Stack

Job description

Senior DevSecOps Engineer, Greater London

Client:

Salt

Location:

Greater London, United Kingdom

Job Category:

Other

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EU work permit required:

Yes

Job Reference:

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Job Views:

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Posted:

02.06.2025

Expiry Date:

17.07.2025

Job Description:

We are looking for a highly skilled, highly experienced Senior DevSecOps engineer to join a growing function within the business, focussing on infrastructure, automation, security practices and providing tooling solutions to streamline the path-to-live for development teams.

The ideal candidate will be passionate about best practices within technology teams, fully supportive of what the group is doing and who wishes to make a difference.

Responsibilities:

• Drive shift left security culture uptake by assisting with security training friendly phishing campaigns as well as conducting brown bag sessions with all staff.
• Assist with the implementation of security gamification, chaos engineering practices, and SBOM implementation.
• Support and secure our existing CI/CD pipelines and assist with migration from monoliths to microservices.
• Experience with containerisation and maintaining, optimising, and securing Azure Kubernetes Clusters.
• Drive alerting and monitoring solutions to provide teams with better optics of the live application ecosystem, using tools such as Grafana, Prometheus, Loki, or ELK.
• Demonstrating a solid understanding of the SDLC and other continuous delivery frameworks and methodologies, such as SCRUM and Kanban.
• Utilise configuration management tools and Infrastructure tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef or Pulumi.
• Proven expertise in secrets management software and processes, using tools like Hashicorp Vault or Azure Key Vault.
• Proven experience in obtaining and managing major industry compliance certifications and practices (ISO27k, SOC and GDPR).
• Adhere to agile methodologies and Kanban processes and have a coaching mindset with the ability to understand and adapt to diverse cultures and hierarchies.
• An ability to drive innovation by discovering new technologies, reviewing tooling, and making suggestions on improving our current stack and architecture.
• Drive the change you seek and be an autonomous, proactive, confident, credible, and persuasive team player.
• Collaborate and support developers, analysts, and data scientists to continually improve and innovate.
• Conduct SAST and DAST testing as well as penetration testing and threat simulations to identify potential risks.
• Have a practical understanding of firewall networking, ingress, VPNs, and DNS to ensure seamless integration and communication within the infrastructure estate.

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Ideal Candidate:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or similar.
• Relevant Cloud Certifications (Azure, AWS or GCP).
• Relevant Hashicorp certifications (Terraform and Vault).
• Excellent written, presentation and influencing skills.
• Excellent project & product management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with clients, team members, and stakeholders at all levels.
• Confident, credible, persuasive, and a collaborative team player.
• A history of collaboration, problem-solving and communication drives collective success.

Experience Required:

• 5+ years of experience managing infrastructure in Azure, AWS or GCP.
• 3+ years of experience in DevSecOps role or security operations.
• 1 + years of experience configuring and supporting production firewalls.
• 1 + years of hands-on SIEM configuration and support.
• Expertise with IaC tooling (Hashicorp Terraform).
• Expertise with token / secret management tools (Hashicorp Vault).
• Expertise with monitoring and alerting platforms, such as ELK, DataDog, Grafana, Loki, etc.
• Expertise with Docker / Kubernetes and Helm design and implementation.
• Fundamental understanding of networking, ingress, and DNS along with WAF.
• Fundamental understanding of GIT/version control and SDLC build pipelines.
• Experience with GitHub Actions.
• Exposure to microservices architecture and experience with API Gateways.
• Object-orientated and non-object-orientated coding is highly advantageou

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Created on 02/06/2025 by TN United Kingdom