Senior DevOps Engineer

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior DevSecOps Engineer to design, automate, and maintain secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure and deployment pipelines. You will play a key role in integrating security into development workflows and infrastructure operations across cloud and on-premise environments.

This role requires strong expertise in cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, CI/CD, security engineering, and modern DevSecOps practices. You will work closely with engineering, operations, and security teams to drive automation, reliability, and compliance at scale.

Key Responsibilities

Infrastructure & Automation

Design and implement automation solutions for deployment, scaling, monitoring, and infrastructure management across cloud and data centre environments.

Provision and manage virtual machines, databases, containers, and supporting infrastructure for development teams.

Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines with streamlined release and change management processes.

Develop scripts and automation tools to support software build, integration, testing, and deployment.

Automate configuration management across development, QA, and production environments.

Optimise system reliability, performance, and service availability through monitoring and automation.

Implement disaster recovery, backup, and business continuity solutions.

Deploy and manage infrastructure monitoring and observability tools.

Security & Compliance

Implement security best practices and controls aligned with industry standards and organisational policies.

Design and maintain secure system architectures, including threat modelling and risk assessments.

Conduct vulnerability assessments, system hardening, and security troubleshooting.

Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native platforms.

Support compliance initiatives across regulated and security-sensitive environments.

Manage secrets, access controls, and zero-trust security practices where applicable.

Operations & Support

Troubleshoot and resolve infrastructure, platform, and application issues across environments.

Participate in incident response and on-call support for critical production systems.

Take ownership of end-to-end infrastructure and security solutions across the organisation.

Requirements

Qualifications & Experience

Degree or Diploma in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related discipline.

Strong understanding of SDLC, CI/CD, DevOps, and Test-Driven Development (TDD).

Experience managing high-availability, high-performance, and secure hybrid cloud environments.

Proficiency in Shell scripting, YAML, and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC).

Experience with Git and modern branching strategies.

Hands-on experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.

Experience with automation and provisioning tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, or Vagrant.

Strong understanding of containerisation and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes.

Familiarity with CNCF ecosystem tools such as Prometheus, Helm, ArgoCD, Istio, Gatekeeper, and Crossplane.

Experience with monitoring, observability, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.

Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills across infrastructure and application layers.

Security & DevSecOps Expertise

Experience implementing security controls within CI/CD pipelines and cloud-native architectures.

Hands-on experience with vulnerability scanning, security assessments, and system hardening.

Familiarity with enterprise security tools such as HashiCorp Vault, Tenable, HP Fortify, Sonatype Nexus IQ, and AWS security services.

Strong knowledge of networking concepts including firewalls, subnets, routing, and access controls.

Experience operating in government, regulated, or high-security environments is an advantage.

Preferred Qualifications

Security certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CREST, or cloud security certifications.

Experience driving or supporting DevSecOps transformation initiatives.

Familiarity with ISO 27001, NIST, CIS Benchmarks, and related security frameworks.

Experience with API security, secrets management, and service mesh security implementations such as Istio or Linkerd.

Pay: $8,000.00 - $9,000.00 per month

Work Location: In person