Role: Senior DevSecOps Engineer

Salary: £47,675 - £56,445

Grade: SEO

Location: Cardiff (hybrid)

The Opportunity

Yolk Recruitment are excited to be working with an innovation-driven civil service organisation as they journey through some incredible projects whilst working with one of the first fully cloud-based organizations.

This is a senior technical role responsible for improving how digital systems are built, deployed, secured, and operated across the organisation. Working across development, operations, and security teams, the role ensures services are delivered reliably, efficiently, and in line with governance and regulatory requirements.

The focus is on embedding strong DevSecOps practices, improving consistency and automation, and reducing risk while enabling faster and more predictable delivery. The role also supports long-term technology planning, ensuring platforms are scalable, resilient, and fit for future needs.

DevSecOps & Platform Engineering

• Design, build, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines across cloud environments.
• Embed DevSecOps practices, including automated security testing and secure access controls.
• Develop and manage Infrastructure-as-Code to ensure consistent, scalable platforms.
• Design and deploy secure cloud services and networking.
• Integrate pipelines with organisational governance and change processes.
• Automate testing and deployments across environments.
• Maintain documentation, runbooks, and reusable scripts.
• Troubleshoot delivery pipelines and mentor engineers in best practice.

Infrastructure, Security & Governance

• Support development of IT strategy and technical roadmaps.
• Contribute to disaster recovery planning and testing.
• Identify and manage technical risks, ensuring compliance with policies and controls.
• Maintain governance artefacts and support audits and accreditation.
• Ensure systems remain secure, resilient, and up to date.

Experience & Technical Knowledge

• Proven experience applying DevSecOps methodologies and working with CI/CD tools (e.g. Azure DevOps).
• Experience embedding security controls into delivery pipelines, including management of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC).
• Strong knowledge of cloud platforms (e.g. Azure), Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, ARM, Bicep), and container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Proficient with version control systems and scripting or programming languages (e.g. PowerShell, C#, TypeScript).
• Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex systems and lead incident investigation and resolution across diverse technology stacks.

Benefits:

• 31 days annual leave + Bank Holidays, and 2 Privilege days
• Flexible and hybrid working
• Generous employer contribution of 28.97%
• Time off for wellbeing activities
• Green car scheme
• Cycle2Work and season travel tickets
• Access to subsidised sports groups

Think this one’s for you

If you think this Senior DevSecOps Engineer officer opportunity is for you then please apply online.

Yolk Public Sector & Not-for-Profit team works with organisations across the UK to fulfil their recruitment needs and to achieve their D&I objectives. We recruit temporary, contract and permanent hires for 1 off specialist needs or for volume campaigns. We support our applicants to navigate the public sector recruitment processes and secure their dream jobs.

Yolk Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and embraces diversity in our workforce. We employ the best people for the job at hand and actively encourage applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, race, religion, sexual orientation, disability, educational background, parental status, gender identity or any other protected characteristic. We champion and celebrate diversity at Yolk allowing our team to bring their whole selves to work.