Azure DevOps Engineer

DevSecOps Engineer (MOD / MODCloud)

Rate: £645 per day inside ir35

Location: Remote

Contract 6 months+

Active SC security clearance is required for this role

We're looking for a Lead DevSecOps Engineer to take a key role on a major UK MOD digital transformation programme, working with a leading technology partner delivering secure digital products into the Defence environment.

This is a genuinely high-impact MODCloud role, spanning multiple cloud estates and products across the MOD digital landscape, you'll help engineer and govern will be deployed across the MOD digital estate (MODCloud), including:

Microsoft Azure - MODCloud ACE / i-ACE

AWS - MODCloud ICE

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - OCI / MODCloud OCE

You'll help establish consistent, secure and automated DevSecOps practices across multiple products and engineering teams, embedding security, compliance and automation throughout the software delivery lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Lead and embed DevSecOps engineering practices across multiple MOD digital products
• Design and govern secure CI/CD and GitOps pipelines
• Integrate security scanning, vulnerability management and compliance controls
• Drive Infrastructure as Code using Terraform
• Work across Kubernetes / Docker / AWS EKS
• Implement secrets, identity and access management using technologies such as HashiCorp Vault
• Establish observability, monitoring, logging and audit controls
• Develop secure‑by‑design engineering practices aligned to MOD security requirements
• Coordinate DevSecOps engineers, developers, testers and infrastructure teams
• Create and maintain security processes, technical standards and operational runbooks
• Support incident response, patching, risk management and compliance activity

Expereince required

You'll need strong hands-on experience across

• AWS
• Kubernetes/EKS
• Terraform
• GitHub Actions
• GitOps
• Argo CD
• Docker
• Vault
• Trivy
• cert-manager
• Grafana
• Loki
• Python
• Bash

You'll also need

• Proven DevSecOps leadership experience
• UK Government / GDS delivery experience
• Strong stakeholder and communication skills
• Experience working across distributed engineering teams