DevOps Security Engineer

Addition Solutions Ltd
Watford, UK
3 months ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Experienced
Experience required
3 years minimum
Compensation
£95,000.0
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source

Tech stack

Kubernetes Security Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Security Encodings Cyber Security DevOps Github Identity and Access Management Key Management Cloud Services
+7 more
Runbook Software Vulnerability Management Policy as Code Data Logging Delivery Pipeline Terraform Devsecops

Job description

  • Monitoring, triaging and resolving vulnerabilities across cloud infrastructure, applications, containers and delivery pipelines
  • Acting as a key technical link between engineering teams and cyber security functions to ensure rapid remediation of security threats
  • Embedding security tools into CI/CD pipelines, including container and secret scanning
  • Strengthening infrastructure security through Terraform-based infrastructure as code
  • Automating security validation and policy enforcement using cloud-native tools and policy-as-code approaches
  • Supporting threat modelling and secure design across engineering teams
  • Managing vulnerability remediation workflows and ensuring issues are resolved within defined risk and compliance timelines
  • Implementing and maintaining secure configurations across cloud services including IAM, key management, WAF, logging and monitoring
  • Creating clear technical documentation, guidance and runbooks to support engineering teams
  • Driving secure development practices across product and platform teams
  • Helping define and enforce governance policies across cloud and DevOps environments

Requirements

  • 3-5+ years’ experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering or DevSecOps roles
  • Strong development and automation skills with the ability to build security tooling
  • Proven experience working with Terraform for infrastructure as code
  • Hands-on cloud experience across AWS and Azure environments
  • Strong understanding of cloud security principles including IAM, networking and container security
  • Experience integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions)
  • Practical exposure to vulnerability management and threat remediation processes
  • Experience collaborating with SOC, cyber defence or enterprise security teams
  • Understanding of modern application architectures and cloud-native systems
  • Ability to adapt quickly in fast-moving cloud environments

Benefits & conditions

What’s in It for You:

  • Company bonus scheme
  • Pension contributions matched up to 8.5%
  • 26 days annual leave plus additional wellbeing days
  • Private medical cover
  • Life assurance
  • Enhanced parental leave policies
  • £500 annual wellness allowance
  • Access to nutritionists, personal trainers and discounted health assessments
  • Financial coaching and wellbeing support
  • The chance to contribute to a large-scale digital and cloud transformation programme
  • A collaborative engineering culture where security is embedded from the start

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