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DevSecOps Engineer

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1 month ago
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+£38,000 - £55,000 - dependant on experience

+DV cleared role - must be eligible for clearance

Skills:

+Graduate with software development skills for junior role

+CI/CD pipelines

+AWS / Azure

As a DevSecOps Engineer you will contribute to this by driving the technical delivery of the DevSecOps (CI/CD pipelines and integrated security tooling) and associated processes, ensuring these are delivered and utilised in the most effective way.

My client strongly believes in investing in its people and will support you in driving your career forwards, undertaking training, and certifications in relevant skills and technologies.

The role will sit in our, Digital function which promises exciting opportunities, use of cutting-edge technologies and a culture that encourages innovation, nurtures talent and drives delivery excellence. It provides the right candidate with an exciting career path and real opportunity to not only grow themselves but to influence the business as we work together to bring our Defence customers into the digital age.

On the project, this role will report into the DevSecOps Tech Lead (MSL) and will support the team, to drive scrum teams' adoption of the DevOps toolchain. This team is widely recognised as an exciting and inspiring team, driving positive change on one of DNS's most critical and technologically advanced programmes, this role provides excellent customer exposure and a real opportunity to catapult your career forwards.

Contributes to the development of automation scripts, writes Build Automation scripts (Ansible) and IaC (Terraform), configures and builds CI/CD pipelines. Advises on use of DevOps Tooling, best practices and secure engineering processes. Works with DevOps delivery team to understand roadmap and processes.

Preferably experienced at working in an agile, sprint-based lifecycle. Experienced with both Windows and Linux operating systems.

Develop, and document re-usable automation scripts and IaC artefacts to assist various teams on the project in their deliveries.

Act as an evangelist and advisor on the use of DevOps tools and Automation technologies.

Your role will involve

Developing CI/CD Pipelines, Ansible Scripts, Terraform and generally automating the build and deployment of software and infrastructure components, using modern tools and DevSecOps best practices.
*Responsible for small aspects of the technical implementation, delivery and assurance of the DevSecOps tooling, associated processed and ways of working.
*Contributing to the Technical Implementation and design activities, supporting making Design decisions and assessing options.
*Advising on use of DevSecOps technologies and processes, to end users.
*Works within a SCRUM team to support, define/prioritise work and raise Risks/Dependencies.
*Ensures the DevSecOps implementation satisfies its requirements and ensuring it aligns to the Business Outcomes and security needs.
*Contribution to Planning the work for the team.
*Reporting on progress and tracking this with DevSecOps Tech Lead (MSL).
*Engages with other teams on the usage of the tooling
Your transferable skills and experience:

Key Skills
Significant experience in the Implementation / Configuration / Usage in a number of the following -
*CI/CD Pipelines, ideally Azure DevOps
*IaC code tooling, including Terraform, Ansible, Harbor
*SCA/IAST/DAST tooling, e.g. Black Duck, Coverity, Codesight, JFrog, Snyk
*Automated Test tooling, ideally Selenium / Robot Framework
*Test Management Tooling ideally Azure Test Plans
*Secure Secrets Management, ideally Azure DevOps and Hashicorp Vault
*Version control with Git

General
*Software Development Background
*Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
*Excellent communication and teamwork skills.
*DevSecOps tooling and practices

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

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