Senior DevSecOps Engineer: Azure, Terraform & Kubernetes

Methods Business and Digital Technology; City of Edinburgh; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

LinkedIn Learning access

Management development programme

Employee assistance programme

Office events (breakfast Tuesdays, Th

Pizza Thursdays

Thirsty Thursdays

25 days annual leave + bank holidays +

Buy 10 extra days

Pension — Salary Exchange Scheme (4%)

Life Assurance 4x base salary

Private Medical Insurance

Travel Insurance

Enhanced Maternity and Paternity Pay

Season ticket loan

Job summary

Methods Business and Digital Technology seeks a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to build, automate and operate secure cloud and platform services. You will combine hands-on engineering with a security-first mindset, delivering reliable software from development through production.

The role emphasises Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, container platforms and resilience, with Azure, Terraform and Kubernetes at its core.

Qualifications

• Hands-on DevOps/DevSecOps experience with production services.
• Experience building on Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
• Strong Terraform skills and reusable modules.
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines with Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab or Jenkins.
• Experience with Kubernetes, containerisation and Linux administration.
• Automating deployment tasks with Python or PowerShell; Ansible.
• Identity and access management and secure deployment practices.
• Monitoring, logging, incident investigation and recovery.
• Ability to work independently and mentor less experienced engineers.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cloud and platform infrastructure using Terraform and other automation tools.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines across development, test and production environments.
• Embed security into engineering workflows through automated scanning, secrets management and access controls.
• Deploy and support containerised applications and Kubernetes services.
• Implement resilience, backup and recovery arrangements.
• Improve logging, monitoring and alerting; investigate incidents and deployment failures.
• Contribute to threat modelling and remediation with security specialists.
• Translate requirements into engineering tasks and communicate progress clearly.
• Collaborate with developers, operations and third-party suppliers to resolve integration issues.

Skills

DevSecOps

Azure

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Python

PowerShell

IAM

Secrets management

Linux

Security reviews

Education

Relevant IT degree or equivalent

Tools

Azure DevOps

GitHub

GitLab

Jenkins

Terraform

Docker

Job description

Methods Business and Digital Technology seeks a Senior DevSecOps Engineer to build, automate and operate secure cloud and platform services. You will combine hands-on engineering with a security-first mindset, delivering reliable software from development through production.

The role emphasises Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, container platforms and resilience, with Azure, Terraform and Kubernetes at its core.