Lead DevSecOps Engineer

SLAMcore; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Core hours & flexible location

Generous time off

Health cash plan and equity

Job summary

Bloom & Wild Group is seeking a Lead DevSecOps Engineer to own security across our product and technology estate. You will report to the Engineering Director and define a 12–18 month roadmap to embed security so the secure option is the default for every engineer.

You will split time between strategic governance, shift-left controls in CI/CD, and hands-on security for AI workflows. Deep AWS/GCP experience and IaC are essential for this role.

Qualifications

• Deep experience embedding security into fast-moving product engineering environments across AWS (ECS/Fargate) and GCP.
• Infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD security, least-privilege identity, policy-as-code, and continuous monitoring expertise.
• Experience with agentic coding tools to accelerate security workflows and securing AI systems.
• Ability to operate as an individual contributor/expert and translate technical risk for senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Define priorities and shape the security roadmap with governance, audits, and risk disclosures.
• Partner with DX to build security into CI/CD pipelines, code/dependency scanning, secrets management, and policy-as-code.
• Hardening authentication and securing AI workflows while accelerating remediation with agentic coding tools.

Skills

Security governance

DevSecOps

Stakeholder communication

Threat modeling

Tools

AWS

GCP

Ruby on Rails

Angular

PostgreSQL

Terraform

Datadog

Job description

Location: UK, Netherlands, or Remote (Europe)

Tech Stack: AWS (Fargate/ECS), GCP, Ruby on Rails, Angular, PostgreSQL, Terraform, Datadog

About Tech at Bloom & Wild Group

We’re Europe’s largest direct-to-consumer flower and gifting business (incorporating Bloom & Wild, bloomon, and Bergamotte). Our 65+ person Tech team builds the software powering our e-commerce platforms, production, and delivery logistics across Europe. You can read more here at Code & Wild.

The Role

As our first Lead DevSecOps Engineer, you’ll own security across our product and technology estate. Operating at the Lead level and reporting into our Engineering Director, you'll act as a deep subject matter specialist, defining our 12–18 month security roadmap and embedding security into our "paved road" so doing the secure thing is the fast, default option for every engineer.

You'll split your time roughly between:

• Strategic Security Roadmap & Governance: Defining priorities (OWASP SAMM audits), managing vendors, responsible disclosures, and advising leadership on risk trade-offs with commercial clarity.
• Shift-Left Controls & Developer Experience: Partnering with DX to build security into CI/CD pipelines (code/dependency scanning, secrets management, policy-as-code, feature flagging).
• AI-First Security & Hands-On Engineering: Hardening authentication, securing agentic AI workflows against prompt injection and data leakage, and using agentic coding tools (e.g. Claude Code, Cursor) to accelerate remediation.

What we're looking for...

• Deep experience embedding security into fast-moving product engineering environments across AWS (ECS/Fargate) and GCP.
• Expertise in infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD security, least-privilege identity, policy-as-code, and continuous monitoring.
• Real, personal experience using agentic coding tools to accelerate security workflows, and a strong awareness of how to secure AI systems themselves.
• Ability to operate as an individual contributor/expert without a team beneath you, influencing squads and translating technical risk for senior stakeholders with candour and clarity.

Don't check every box? Please apply anyway! We hire for potential and diverse perspectives over exhaustive checklists.

Perks & Benefits

• Flexibility: Core hours (10–4), hybrid or remote working, plus up to 45 days per year to work abroad.
• Time Off: 25 days holiday + birthday + flexible bank holidays + a volunteering day + a day for wedding or moving house + the option to buy more annual leave
• Growth & Support: Health cash plan, equity option, flexible training framework, workplace nursery scheme, and generous product discounts

How we hire

1. Initial Chat (30-min call with our Talent Acquisition Manager)
2. Manager Interview (Deep dive on security strategy, posture, and squad partnership with our Engineering Director )
3. Technical Session (Live technical exercise with Platform & Engineering team members)
4. Final Chat with our Chief Product & Tech Officer

(Need interview adjustments? Just let us know in your application, we're happy to support you however you need.)