DevSecOps Engineer

Optamor
Gl34Aa, GL3 4AA, United Kingdom
Last month
£35,000 – £86,000 pa

Salary

£35,000 – £86,000 pa

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Flexible
Work Location
On-site
Education
Degree
Security Clearance
Required
Posted
27 Apr 2026 (Last month)

Benefits

BUPA Benefits Bonus

DevSecOps Engineer

Brockworth, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, South West UK

£35044 - £86100 plus BUPA, benefits and bonus

37.5 hours + 4 Day Work Week option

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS) provides systems engineering, software development, training solutions and complex program management for global security, civil and commercial markets.

Simply stated, our mission is to be the world's leading global security and aerospace company.

The role:

We are seeking DevSecOps Engineers at a variety of levels of seniority.

Join Our Team as an DevSecOps Engineer (with a Focus on Infrastructure Engineering).

You'll play a pivotal role in integrating, administering and securing a range of systems and applications, with a strong focus on designing, building, and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure.

As an Engineer within our DevSecOps team, you'll be at the forefront of driving innovation and safeguarding digital infrastructures by ensuring robust, high-performance systems that support our mission-critical solutions.

  • You'll need to have an understanding of Windows and Linux systems and DevSecOps principles and experience of working within a multi-disciplined team.
  • Knowledge and understanding of core software tools, methods, and frameworks to reliably integrate and deploy, integrate, and test features into environments to ensure optimum outcomes for our customers.
  • Additionally, we're looking for candidates with hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, including expertise in areas such as cloud architecture, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), and system performance optimization to support seamless integration and testing processes.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, build, deploy and manage a broad set of IT Infrastructure aligning to customer needs and requirements, while leveraging infrastructure engineering best practices to maintain system reliability and scalability with a focus on automation and repeatability.
  • Develop Infrastructure as Code and scripts and integrate those with CI/CD pipelines and a wider ecosystem of tools, prioritising automation to streamline deployments.
  • Provide full end to end systems lifecycle management covering architecture, design, deployment and support through to decommissioning and migration.
  • Support the integration and delivery of large and complex solutions into a wider system-of-systems, ensuring infrastructure components are robust and interoperable.
  • Opportunities to experience the cloud by undertaking deployments in Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud environments, addressing potential constraints while optimizing infrastructure performance and security.
  • If you're passionate about DevSecOps, with a strong focus and background in Infrastructure Engineering, and eager to take your career to the next level, we want to hear from you! Apply now to join our team and embark on an exciting journey of innovation and growth.

Required skills, qualifications and experience :

  • Advanced understanding of DevSecOps. The ability to work within an agile environment and delivering using Scrum and Sprints utilising tools such as Jira and Confluence to help planning and collaboration.
  • Expert in Windows and Linux systems administration (Active Directory etc).
  • Expert in Virtualisation technologies and concepts - VMware vsphere, ARIA Ops performance monitoring, software defined networking - NSX.
  • Advanced understanding of Web proxy servers and configuration - Squid.
  • Experience of Automation technologies Terraform and Ansible for complex builds, Packer.
  • Experience of CI/CD pipeline builds - Jenkins.
  • Understanding of Git/Bitbucket/GitLab integration, coding and branching strategies.
  • Proficient in the use and administration of Containerisation technologies - Kubernetes, Docker.
  • Proficient in Powershell, bash scripting.
  • Proficient in Python.
  • Proficient in the use of Networking skills - IPv4 addressing and routing.
  • Experience of Logging and monitoring using Zabbix and Splunk.
  • Experience of Cloud and AWS concepts and technologies.

Desired Skills:

  • Ability to support maturation of automated CI/CD software pipelines for Cloud deployments.
  • Understanding of IaC and using this to deploy and integrate services on Cloud.
  • Hands on experience in using and integrating with AWS Services such as EC2, EKS, Fargate, IAM, S3, Lambda.
  • Experience using the AWS SDK (Boto3) to automate integration tasks.
  • Experience or understanding integrating hybrid-cloud application deployments.
  • Understanding of CloudTrail to debug and diagnose integration issues.

We would love to hear from you if you have any of the following Qualifications or Certifications:

  • Linux Admin, (RHCSA) or (RHCE).
  • Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate.
  • Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation (EX407).
  • Terraform Associate certification.
  • AWS Certification.
  • CCNA Certification.
  • Oracle Java Certification.
  • ISTQB Certification.
  • OSCP Certification.

Disclaimer:

This vacancy is being advertised by Optamor Limited. Optamor is a specialist Recruitment Process Outsourcing provider. We provide a flexible full recruitment solution which takes care of all recruitment requirements from planning to on-boarding. Our specialist recruitment divisions cover the entire technical arena, including some of the most economically and strategically important industries in the UK and the world today. We will never send your CV without your permission.

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