SC Lead DevSecOps Engineer - Remote - £650p/d

SmartSourcing are looking for a SC Cleared Lead DevSecOps Engineer to work with a Government client Remote, with visits to Bristol and London as required

Summary: A senior, client facing Lead DevSecOps Engineer role driving secure delivery, automation and DevSecOps governance across multi cloud MOD environments (Azure ACE/i;ACE, AWS ICE, OCI OCE) within a major digital transformation programme.

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced, client facing Lead DevSecOps Engineer to coordinate and mature DevSecOps practices across multiple digital products.

You will embed security, compliance and automation throughout the software delivery life cycle, ensuring platforms and applications meet stringent MOD security and operational standards. You will also establish consistent, documented processes used by DevSecOps engineers across Azure, AWS and OCI based MODCloud environments.

This role requires deep expertise in CI/CD, delivery workflows and security tooling, alongside strong collaboration with developers, DevSecOps engineers, infrastructure engineers and test teams.

Key Responsibilities

DevSecOps practice leadership Design, implement, document and continuously improve DevSecOps practices across delivery teams.

Secure CI/CD pipelines - Build secure, automated pipelines with integrated scanning and policy enforcement.

Security scanning integration - Embed scanning across build, test and deployment workflows.

Vulnerability life cycle management - Manage scanning outputs, allow lists and risk acceptance processes.

Secrets and identity management - Govern secure handling of secrets and access controls.

Secure;by;design collaboration - Partner with developers to embed secure engineering aligned to MOD standards.

Infrastructure as Code governance - Enable and govern IaC practices across teams and environments.

Incident response and compliance - Support patching cycles, incident response and compliance reporting.

Documentation - Produce clear processes, controls and runbooks in Confluence.

Essential Skills and ExperienceDevSecOps leadership with hands;on capability across:

CI/CD and GitOps (GitHub Actions, Argo CD, Argo Rollouts)

Security and compliance tooling (Trivy, Vault, cert;manager)

Containers and orchestration (Docker, AWS EKS)

Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Observability (Grafana, Loki)

Scripting and automation (Python, Bash)

Cloud and networking fundamentals (AWS IAM, S3, network policies)

Highly Desirable

MODCloud experience across Azure ACE/i;ACE, AWS ICE and OCI OCE.

Please apply online if you feel you are a good fit for this role.