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Lead Software and DevOps Engineer

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Summary

A lead-level engineer designs and delivers enterprise security capabilities across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises, spanning IAM, secrets/key management (HashiCorp Vault), secure CI/CD pipelines, and software supply chain security. They also lead a small engineering team, define security roadmaps, and drive adoption of security patterns while collaborating with stakeholders.

Salary: £41,000 - 77,000 per year

Requirements:
  • Experience of 7 to 11 years.
  • Strong experience in Security Architecture and DevSecOps.
  • Strong knowledge of Identity and Access Management (IAM).
  • Hands-on experience with Secrets Management and Cryptographic Key Management.
  • Strong expertise in HashiCorp Vault and cloud-native vault solutions.
  • Experience designing and securing CI/CD pipelines.
  • Good understanding of Software Supply Chain Security.
  • Strong experience building enterprise solutions across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments.
  • Proven experience leading engineering teams and large-scale technical initiatives.
  • Ability to design, develop, test, transition, and scale enterprise security capabilities.
  • Strong technical leadership and solution architecture skills.
  • Excellent stakeholder management, communication, documentation, and negotiation skills.
  • Ability to translate stakeholder requirements into practical technical solutions.
  • Experience influencing architecture and engineering decisions across multiple teams.
  • Public cloud certifications or equivalent practical experience are desirable.
  • AWS Professional-level Architecture or DevOps certification is advantageous.
  • Mandatory skills: AWS DevOps Services, Software Engineering, and Design Architecture.
Responsibilities:
  • Design and implement end-to-end security solutions across public cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Build new security environments, frameworks, components, and enterprise capabilities.
  • Conduct proof-of-concepts and pilot implementations for emerging security solutions.
  • Develop and maintain reusable security patterns and reference architectures.
  • Lead security engineering initiatives across IAM, secrets management, CI/CD pipeline security, and software supply chain security.
  • Implement secrets and key management solutions using cloud-native vaults and HashiCorp Vault.
  • Identify security control gaps and provide technical guidance to platform and engineering teams.
  • Manage changing stakeholder requirements, priorities, dependencies, and technical deliverables.
  • Lead a small engineering team and ensure successful delivery of agreed objectives.
  • Define security engineering strategy, roadmaps, milestones, and execution plans.
  • Drive enterprise-wide adoption of security patterns through pilots, scaling, and stakeholder alignment.
  • Design, build, test, hand over, and support the adoption of new security capabilities.
  • Produce high-quality technical designs, reference documentation, implementation guides, and knowledge-transfer materials.
  • Operate independently at a principal engineer level and influence architectural decisions and engineering direction.
  • Collaborate with engineering, platform, architecture, security, and customer teams to deliver scalable solutions.
Technologies:
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • CI/CD
  • Cloud
  • DevSecOps
  • DevOps
  • GCP
  • IAM
  • Support
  • Security

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We are hiring a Lead Software and DevOps Engineer with 7 to 11 years of experience to work across security engineering, DevSecOps, and enterprise cloud environments. The role involves leading a small engineering team, defining strategy and roadmaps, and driving adoption of security patterns and capabilities across AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-premises environments. The position requires strong stakeholder collaboration, technical leadership, and hands-on experience with IAM, secrets management, HashiCorp Vault, CI/CD security, and software supply chain security.

last updated 38 week of 2026

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