# Senior DevSecOps Engineer

**Company:** [Shield AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/shield-ai)
**Location:** London, United Kingdom
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** DevSecOps, CI/CD, Infrastructure As Code, Configuration Management, Containerization, Git, GitLab, GitHub, Static Analysis, Dependency Scanning, Container Scanning, Secrets Detection, Vulnerability Management, Secure By Design, Cybersecurity
**Posted:** 2026-09-09

> Designs and operates secure development infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines for autonomous defence systems. Requires at least five years of DevOps or related experience, plus UK defence or regulated national-security experience and knowledge of Secure by Design and assurance practices.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate secure development and deployment infrastructure for autonomy and defence programmes.
- Develop and maintain secure, repeatable CI/CD pipelines for autonomy and mission software.
- Embed security controls, testing, evidence, and assurance throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Apply UK Ministry of Defence Secure by Design principles and support engineering teams with cybersecurity and technical assurance responsibilities.
- Collaborate with software, autonomy, systems, cybersecurity, integration, and test engineers.
- Design and maintain environments across cloud, on-premises infrastructure, laboratories, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and operational platforms.
- Enable secure development and deployment across different security classifications and segmented environments.
- Automate security controls in CI/CD pipelines, including static analysis, dependency scanning, container scanning, secrets detection, software composition analysis, vulnerability management, and policy enforcement.
- Promote engineering ownership of security, reliability, deployability, and operational performance.

## Requirements
- Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cybersecurity, 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 discipline.
- Significant experience delivering software or digital capabilities in 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.
- Experience integrating cybersecurity, risk management, MOD security policies, security assurance processes, and technical security requirements into software-intensive defence programmes.
- Experience developing and operating CI/CD pipelines using source control, build, testing, artifact management, and deployment technologies.
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, containerization, and infrastructure automation.
- Experience with Git, GitLab, GitHub, or equivalent tools.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience supporting DevSecOps, software delivery, or digital engineering 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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