Senior DevSecOps Engineer – Secure CI/CD & IaC Leader

83zero Ltd; West of England; On-site; GBP 110,000 - 125,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus 5-10%

Pension

Benefits

Job summary

83zero Ltd in Bristol is seeking a Principal DevSecOps Engineer to lead secure, automated delivery across complex transformation programmes. You will design and evolve CI/CD pipelines, embed security controls and govern IaC practices.

This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, offering hybrid working 3 days on-site and a focus on security, observability and governance. SC clearance and UK residency required.

Qualifications

• Experience delivering within the UK Government Digital Service (GDS) lifecycle on a public sector engagement.
• Strong CI/CD pipelines and GitOps with modern tooling.
• Proficient in security tooling and vulnerability management.
• Terraform/IaC experience and secure-by-design practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and continuously improve secure, automated CI/CD and GitOps pipelines.
• Embed security scanning, vulnerability management and secrets management into delivery workflows.
• Establish secure-by-design engineering practices and enforce security standards.
• Lead Infrastructure as Code (IaC) practices across teams and environments.
• Drive observability, monitoring, logging and audit controls.
• Support incident response, patching, compliance reporting and debt remediation.
• Partner with developers to improve engineering quality and security.
• Document security processes, controls and runbooks.

Skills

CI/CD & GitOps

Security & compliance

Containers & cloud

Infrastructure as Code

Observability

Automation

UK Government (GDS) lifecycle

Tools

GitHub Actions

Argo CD

Argo Rollouts

Trivy

HashiCorp Vault

cert-manager

Terraform

Grafana

Loki

Python

Bash

Job description

83zero Ltd in Bristol is seeking a Principal DevSecOps Engineer to lead secure, automated delivery across complex transformation programmes. You will design and evolve CI/CD pipelines, embed security controls and govern IaC practices.

This role combines hands-on engineering with technical leadership, offering hybrid working 3 days on-site and a focus on security, observability and governance. SC clearance and UK residency required.