DevSecOps Engineer

Location: London (Fully Remote)

Rate: Up to £750 per day

IR35: Inside or Outside IR35 (assessment pending / depending on engagement)

We’re working with a cloud-native technology organisation operating in a regulated environment, currently scaling their DevSecOps capability as part of a wider platform and security transformation.

This is a hands-on delivery role, ideal for a contractor who can quickly assess existing tooling and processes and implement practical security improvements.

Key Responsibilities

• Embed security controls and automation across CI/CD pipelines
• Improve cloud security posture across environments
• Implement and manage security tooling (SAST, DAST, container scanning, secrets management)
• Support Infrastructure as Code security and best practices
• Work closely with engineering teams to promote security-by-design
• Identify and remediate vulnerabilities and misconfigurations
• Contribute to security standards, guardrails, and documentation

Required Skills & Experience

• Strong experience in a DevSecOps or DevOps with security focus role
• Hands-on cloud experience (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• CI/CD tooling (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar)
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Container and Kubernetes security
• Experience implementing security tooling and automation
• Ability to operate in fast-paced, distributed engineering teams