Senior DevSecOps Engineer
Shield AI
📍 London🎓 5+ years experience⏱ Full Time Employee
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Job description
Shield AI is hiring for Senior DevSecOps Engineer in London. This is listed as a Full Time Employee opportunity.
What You’ll Do
- Design, build, and operate secure development and deployment infrastructure for Shield AI autonomy and defence programmes.
- Develop and maintain CI/CD pipelines that enable rapid, repeatable, and secure delivery of autonomy and mission software.
- Embed security throughout the software development lifecycle, ensuring security controls, testing, evidence, and assurance are integrated into engineering workflows rather than treated as separate activities.
- Apply UK MOD Secure by Design principles throughout the development lifecycle and help engineering teams understand and meet their responsibilities for cyber security and technical assurance.
- Work closely with software, autonomy, systems, cyber security, integration, and test engineers to establish development environments that support rapid engineering while meeting defence security requirements.
- Design and maintain development and deployment environments spanning cloud, on premises infrastructure, laboratory environments, simulation, hardware in the loop, and operational platforms.
- Enable secure software development and deployment across different security classifications and appropriately segmented development environments.
- Implement automated security controls within CI/CD pipelines, including static analysis, dependency scanning, container scanning, secrets detection, software composition analysis, vulnerability management, and policy enforcement.
- Champion a DevSecOps culture where software engineers take ownership of the security, reliability, deployability, and operational performance of the systems they develop.
Required Qualifications
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cyber Security, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- 5+ years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, software engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Significant experience delivering software or digital capabilities within UK defence or another highly regulated national security environment.
- Strong understanding of the UK Ministry of Defence/NATO approach to DevSecOps and Secure by Design, including the integration of cyber security and risk management throughout the capability lifecycle.
- Experience applying MOD security policies, security assurance processes, and technical security requirements to software intensive defence programmes.
- Experience developing and operating CI/CD pipelines using modern source control, build, test, artefact management, and deployment technologies.
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, containerisation, and infrastructure automation
- Experience with technologies such as Git, GitLab or GitHub, or equivalent tooling.
Desirable Qualifications
- Experience supporting DevSecOps, software delivery, or digital engineering activities across NATO nations or multinational defence programmes.
- Understanding of DevSecOps approaches, security frameworks, and software assurance practices used by other NATO nations, particularly the United States and European NATO partners.
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