DevSecOps Engineer

Salary/Rate: £80000 - £100000 per annum + Hybrid working

Business Sector: IT

Job ref: BBBH153768

Post Date: January 23, 2026

+Hybrid working 2/3 days a week onsite in Romsey

+SC cleared roles

Skills:

+MOD

+Terraform

+Ansible

+Gitlab

+SC clearance - sole British nationals only due to the nature of the project

We are seeking a DevSecOps Engineer to join our Defence Information Advantage team, helping to drive best practice across secure software delivery, deployment automation, and live system operations.

Working in the defence domain presents unique challenges across DevSecOps, MLOps and secure cloud adoption. You will use modern cloud and automation technologies to accelerate deployments while applying SRE principles to improve system resilience and uptime.

Key Responsibilities

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation

Support and operate live systems, resolving incidents and issues

Coach teams in DevSecOps best practice

Work closely with developers, product owners, security architects and QA

Contribute to agile ceremonies (Scrum, Kanban or SAFe)

Participate in code reviews and secure-by-design delivery

Skills & Experience

Degree in a STEM subject or equivalent practical experience

Strong DevSecOps tooling knowledge (Git, GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Ansible)

Containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes; GPU containers desirable)

Cyber security practices (vulnerability management, IAM, secure networking)

Experience with microservices, APIs, streaming platforms (Kafka/MQTT)

Scripting or automation using Python, Rust or similar

Observability/SRE tools such as Prometheus, Grafana or Elastic

You'll be proactive, curious, and an effective communicator with a strong commitment to continuous improvement. Previous defence-sector DevSecOps experience is a bonus.

If you'd like to discuss the DevSecOps Engineer role in more detail, please send your updated CV to and I will get in touch.