Lead DevSecOps Engineer

TEKTORA LIMITED · Hampshire – Basingstoke, on site 5 days per week (Mon–Fri)

Lead DevSecOps Engineer at TEKTORA LIMITED, based in Hampshire – Basingstoke, on site 5 days per week (Mon–Fri), paying £650 per day. This is a contract role.

Salary
£650 per day
Location
Hampshire – Basingstoke, on site 5 days per week (Mon–Fri)
Contract
Contract
Posted
1 day ago
Closes
17 Nov 2026
Sector
DevOps Engineer

About 27% above the going rate for devops engineer

Reference jobs/lead-devsecops-engineer-955336

About the role

Lead DevSecOps Engineer

Location: Hampshire – Basingstoke, on site 5 days per week (Mon–Fri)
Working Pattern: On site, customer premises
Type: Contract, outside IR35
Rate: Open to discussion
Clearance: UK Sole National with active DV Clearance
Company: Tektora, supporting a leading Defence and National Security IT provider

Tektora are supporting a leading Defence and National Security IT provider who are looking to speak with DV Cleared Lead DevSecOps Engineers for a contract opportunity driving the technical delivery of CI/CD pipelines and integrated security tooling on one of the programme's most critical and technologically advanced workstreams.

This role would suit someone with a software development background and strong DevSecOps tooling experience who has worked in an agile, sprint-based lifecycle and is looking to develop further across secure engineering processes, automation and technical leadership.

The Role

You will be involved in:

  • Owning aspects of the technical implementation, delivery and assurance of the DevSecOps tooling and associated ways of working
  • Contributing to technical implementation and design activities, supporting design decisions and assessing options
  • Developing and documenting re-usable automation scripts and Infrastructure as Code artefacts
  • Writing build automation in Ansible and IaC in Terraform, and configuring and building CI/CD pipelines
  • Advising end users on the use of DevSecOps technologies, tooling and secure engineering processes
  • Working within a Scrum team to define and prioritise work and raise risks and dependencies
  • Ensuring the DevSecOps implementation aligns to business outcomes and security needs
  • Mentoring junior engineers and making implementation decisions
  • Contributing to planning and reporting progress to the DevSecOps Technical Lead
  • Engaging other teams on tooling usage and dependency management

Key Experience Required

  • UK Sole National with active DV Clearance
  • Significant experience implementing, configuring and using CI/CD pipelines, ideally Azure DevOps
  • IaC tooling including Terraform, Ansible and Harbor
  • SCA, IAST and DAST tooling such as Black Duck, Coverity, Codesight, JFrog or Snyk
  • Automated test tooling, ideally Selenium or Robot Framework
  • Secure secrets management, ideally Azure DevOps and HashiCorp Vault
  • Version control with Git
  • A software development background
  • Comfortable across both Windows and Linux operating systems

Desirable Experience

  • Test management tooling, ideally Azure Test Plans
  • Experience working in an agile, sprint-based delivery lifecycle
  • Previous experience mentoring or leading a team of engineers
  • Prior delivery within a Defence or National Security programme
  • Relevant DevSecOps or cloud certifications

Interested?

Tektora are looking to speak with DV Cleared Lead DevSecOps Engineers who are open to contract opportunities and keen to develop further across secure automation, CI/CD and Defence programme delivery.

Please apply with your CV and we will be in touch to discuss the opportunity in more detail.

Reference: jobs/lead-devsecops-engineer-955336 · Posted 1 day ago · Closes 17 Nov 2026 · Listed via TEKTORA LIMITED

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