DevSecOps Engineer

Roke, Roke Manor, Romsey, Hampshire, United Kingdom

Job Description

Great ideas come from different minds. That's why we bring together engineers, scientists, analysts, and creatives from every background - and give them the trust, tools, and freedom to make a difference. What connects us is the mission: solving meaningful problems and building capability that protects what matters most.
And as the challenges evolve, so do we - working on the technologies that will shape tomorrow, not just today.

The Opportunity

Roke are now looking for a passionate DevSecOps Engineer with Software Development experience to become an aggregated part of our Defence Information Advantage team. Innovation is at the core of what we do. You will be encouraged to contribute to Roke's innovation process by devising ideas for products/ techniques, developing other people's ideas & your own. You will belong to a community in which to engage about best practice, emerging technologies & CPD.

Your Role

In this role you will work with software developers, users, project and project managers, heads of engineering, quality assurance and IT colleagues. You will oversee code releases, deployments, and support operational systems. The role calls for both technical skills and soft skills to communicate effectively with colleagues at different levels in the organization in a collaborative and holistic environment.

What you'll bring

As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will have a degree level qualification in a STEM subject, or an equivalent level of practical experience.

Depending on your level of ability/experience, you will have familiarity, competence or expertise in a subset of these areas:

Cloud technologies:

• AWS

Programming languages:

• Java
• Python
• node.js
• SQL

Data technologies:

• Relational databases (e.g. PostgreSQL)
• Data streaming (e.g. kafka)
• Big data (e.g. Hadoop)

Cyber security

• Vulnerability management (e.g. tenable)
• Static and Dynamic Analysis (e.g. SonarQube)
• Microservices
• On premise virtualization
• Cloud
• Edge compute
• Containerisation (e.g. Docker, Podman)
• APIs (e.g. RESTful)

DevSecOps tooling

• Version control (e.g. Git)
• Continuous Integration/Deployment (e.g. Gitlab CI/CD)
• Unit testing (e.g. JUnit)
• Behaviour Driven Development (e.g. Cucumber)
• Infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform, Puppet, Ansible)

Beyond your technical skills, you will be proactive and able to communicate effectively with a variety of stakeholders. You will work well alone or as part of a team and grasp opportunities. You will be curious and seek out the best approach/solution/tool for the job at hand.
You'll need to be able to draw on previous experiences of DevSecOps roles and be able to demonstrate a clear commitment to Continuous Improvement and Learning from Experience. Experience of successful DevSecOps implementation within the defence industry is a bonus!
Roke has a hybrid working policy as does our client base. Collaborative activities are likely to take place in our Woking, Romsey and Gloucester locations as well as client sites in Andover, London, Bristol and Cambridge.

Areas of responsibility

• Join and contribute to agile ceremonies following Scrum, Kanban or SAFe Agile.
• Coach team members in DevSecOps.
• Work with product owners and software developers to schedule releases and implement CI/CD pipelines.
• Work with security architects to ensure the products and services are secure by design.
• Work with quality engineers to ensure the products and services are of high quality.
• Effectively implement changes to products and services.
• Participate and contribute to code reviews.
• Support operational systems, troubleshoot and resolve issues.

The Next Step

Roke, Roke Manor, Romsey, Hampshire, United Kingdom