Synthesized

DevSecOps Lead

Synthesized

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: London • United Kingdom

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

AWSCloudDockerJavaScriptKubernetesPythonTypeScript

About the role

  • Collaborate with leadership on risk management, security posture, and compliance roadmap
  • Act as the technical authority for cloud security, platform reliability, and DevOps best practices
  • Drive shift-left security practices across engineering teams
  • Own identity and access management (IAM), secrets management, and network security
  • Embed security into CI/CD pipelines (SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning)
  • Implement zero-trust principles and least-privilege access controls
  • Oversee vulnerability management and remediation processes
  • Mentor and lead DevSecOps engineers, setting standards and best practices
  • Manage cloud resource utilisation and cost management

Requirements

  • Understanding of DevSecOps principles and practices
  • Understanding of cloud security best practices and implementing security controls as code
  • Proven experience with AWS
  • Experience with infrastructure as code tools and methodologies
  • Knowledge of containerisation technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Familiarity with CI/CD concepts and tools (GitHub Actions)
  • Experience with monitoring and observability implementation
  • Programming skills in languages relevant to cloud automation (Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, PowerShell, shell scripts, etc.)
  • Industry-recognized cloud and security certifications
  • Hands-on experience implementing technical controls for compliance frameworks such as SOC2 and ISO-27001
  • Experience with serverless architectures and function-as-a-service implementations
  • Knowledge of security scanning and testing tools for infrastructure code
  • Familiarity with secret management solutions
  • Ability to maintain good humour when explaining for the fifth time why "turning it off and on again" isn't always the solution to cloud problems
Benefits
  • Competitive salary and meaningful equity
  • 25 days annual leave
  • Hybrid, flexible working
  • Learning & development budget for coaching, courses, and conferences
  • Private medical, dental, and vision cover
  • Regular team socials and offsites
  • Generous Family leave
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Hard Skills & Tools
DevSecOpscloud securityidentity and access managementsecrets managementnetwork securityCI/CDinfrastructure as codecontainerisationprogramming (Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, PowerShell, shell scripts)vulnerability management
Soft Skills
mentoringleadershipcollaborationcommunicationproblem-solvinghumour
Certifications
cloud certificationssecurity certificationsSOC2ISO-27001