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DevSecOps Lead

Basingstoke
2 weeks ago
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DevSecOps Lead

+Permanent opportunity

+On site in Basingstoke

+DV cleared role

+£78,000 - £104,000

Skills:

+DevOps

+Team leadership

+CI/CD pipelines

+Azure / AWS

As a Lead 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.

The role 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 (and support) the DevSecOps Tech Lead (MSL) and will lead the engineers, 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.

Owns significant parts of the Solution, 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. Works with the Customer to ensure that DevOps adoption is aligned to Engineering process.

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

Work closely with the DevSecOps Tech Lead (MSL), Managed Service Teams and Engineering Process Lead to drive the usage and implementation of DevOps tooling to facilitate secure build and test automation.

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

Responsible for the significant aspects of the technical implementation, delivery and assurance of the DevSecOps tooling, associated processed and ways of working.
Leading Technical Implementation and design activities, making Design decisions and assessing options.
Advising on use of DevSecOps technologies and processes, to senior customers.
Works with DevSecOps Tech Lead (MSL)., Product Owners and Scrum Master to define/prioritise work and raise Risks/Dependencies.
Works with DevSecOps Tech Lead (MSL) to ensure the DevSecOps implementation satisfies its requirements and ensuring it aligns to the Business Outcomes and security needs.
Mentoring junior engineers and making implementation decisions.
Contribution to Planning the work for the team.
Reporting on progress and tracking this with Solution Owner.
Defines Support Approach working with Service/Support Team.
Engages with other teams on the usage of the tooling and dependency management.

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
Technical LeadershipIf you'd like to discuss this DevSecOps Lead in more detail, please send your updated CV to (url removed) and I will get in touch

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