Lead Software and DevOps Engineer
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.
- 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.
- 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