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Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Shield AI· Hivemind Solutions Division – Applications Engineering
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Hybrid (London)Full Time EmployeePosted 1mo ago

About the role

The DevSecOps Engineer designs, builds, secures, and operates the software delivery infrastructure for Shield AI's autonomy and defence programmes, combining software, platform, cyber security, and defence systems engineering to enable rapid, secure development and deployment.

Responsibilities

  • 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, integrating controls, testing, evidence, and assurance into engineering workflows.
  • Apply UK MOD Secure by Design principles throughout the development lifecycle and help engineering teams meet cyber security and technical assurance responsibilities.
  • Work 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 (static analysis, dependency scanning, container scanning, secrets detection, software composition analysis, vulnerability management, policy enforcement).
  • Champion a DevSecOps culture where software engineers own security, reliability, deployability, and operational performance of their systems.

Qualifications

  • BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cyber Security, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 5+ years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, software engineering, or related field.
  • Significant experience delivering software or digital capabilities within UK defence or other highly regulated national security environment.
  • Strong understanding of UK MOD/NATO approach to DevSecOps and Secure by Design, including 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 with modern source control, build, test, artefact management, and deployment technologies.
  • Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, containerisation, and infrastructure automation.
  • Experience with Git, GitLab or GitHub, or equivalent tooling.

Skills

Required:CI/CD pipelinesSecure by DesignInfrastructure as CodeSecurity controls in pipelinesUK MOD/NATO complianceGit/GitHub/GitLab
Last updated Oct 23, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

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