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# DevOps Security Engineer

- **Company:** Addition Solutions Ltd
- **Location:** Watford, UK
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** £95,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** 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, Runbook, Software Vulnerability Management, Policy as Code, Data Logging, Delivery Pipeline, Terraform, Devsecops
- **Published:** May 20, 2026
- **Apply:** https://find.jobs/jobs-near-me/devops-security-engineer-watford-hertfordshire/2778387386-2/

## About the Role

* 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

## 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


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