DevOps Security Engineer

Addition
Watford, United Kingdom
Last month
£95,000 pa

Salary

£95,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Posted
2 Apr 2026 (Last month)

Benefits

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

Introduction

A major UK organisation behind one of the country’s most recognisable digital platforms is undergoing a large-scale cloud transformation. As part of this journey, they’re strengthening their security engineering capability — and are looking for a DevOps Security Engineer to help embed security into every layer of their cloud and delivery environments.

Role Overview:

  • Location: Watford (Hybrid - 3 days in office a week)
  • Package: Up to £95,000 p/a + benefits
  • Industry: Gaming / Digital Platforms / Technology

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • 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

Main Skills Needed:

  • 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 withTerraform for infrastructure as code
  • Hands-on cloud experience acrossAWS 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

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

Curious? Apply now — or grab five minutes with us to hear more.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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