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DevSecOps Engineer – Terraform Sentinel Policy Developer

identifi Global Resources
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🔐 DevSecOps Engineer – Terraform Sentinel Policy Developer

📍 Remote (Occasional travel to London or Edinburgh)

💼 Contract | 6 Months


Rate:£550 / £575 per day | Immediate Start – Outside IR35


Secure the Future of Cloud Development — One Policy at a Time

Are you a hands-on DevSecOps engineer with a passion for embedding security into the development lifecycle? Do you thrive in high-impact environments where your code shapes how cloud platforms are governed?

Join one of Europe’s top DevOps consultancies — a digital transformation leader trusted by major enterprises across the public and private sector. We're looking for aTerraform Policy Developer with Sentinel experienceto help design and implement the next generation of cloud controls for a flagship client.


🚀 The Mission

You’ll play a critical role in developing security policies as code, enabling safe, scalable, and developer-friendly adoption of public cloud infrastructure. This is your chance to help a major organisation “shift security left” — catching misconfigurations and vulnerabilities before they go live.


What You'll Do

  • Develop 20 new Sentinel policiesaligned with AWS best practices and existing Terraform control rules
  • 🧪 Use an existing automated testing framework to validate policy behaviour and fail scenarios
  • 🛠️ Demo and hand over policies to internal platform teams and customers
  • 📚 Write clear and practical developer and customer documentation
  • 📊 Showcase policy capabilities across public cloud teams
  • 🤝 Lead hands-on sessions with users to drive adoption and gather feedback
  • 📈 Contribute to broader cloud control strategy and parity between Terraform and Sentinel frameworks


Tech Stack & Environment

  • Terraform (HCL)– infrastructure as code
  • Sentinel– policy as code (Terraform Cloud/Enterprise)
  • Python– scripting and automation
  • GitLab– CI/CD pipelines and source control
  • AWS– primary cloud provider (Azure coming soon)
  • Security Frameworks– AWS Foundational Best Practices


Who You Are

  • ✅ An experienced DevSecOps or Platform Engineer with a strong grasp of cloud security automation
  • ✅ You’ve written and deployed Sentinel policies and understand how to enforce security guardrails at scale
  • ✅ Strong working knowledge of Terraform, GitLab, and cloud-native architecture (AWS preferred)
  • ✅ Able to demo, document, and explain your work to engineers, security teams, and stakeholders
  • ✅ Autonomous, collaborative, and comfortable with fast-moving environments


Bonus Points For

  • Experience with AWS Security Lake
  • Familiarity with multi-cloud environments
  • Understanding of Cactus (internal Terraform module library)
  • Previous experience in public sector or regulated industries


Why Join Us?

  • 🌐 Work with a visionary public cloud platform team on a mission to automate and scale security
  • 🔧 Collaborate with a tight-knit group of high-calibre engineers solving real-world challenges
  • 🧱 Own policy development from discovery to release
  • 🧠 Be part of building a developer-friendly security framework
  • 💼 Long-term potential and pipeline of exciting cloud transformation projects


Ready to apply your DevSecOps expertise where it really matters?

Send us your CV today and help reshape cloud security — one line of policy code at a time.



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