DevSecOps Engineer

DevSecOps Engineer

Location: London (Hybrid 2-3 Days Per Week)

Salary: £65,000 - £90,000 + Benefits

Type: Permanent

About the Company

167 Solutions is partnering with an innovative technology organisation that is scaling its cloud engineering and platform capabilities. We are seeking a hands-on DevSecOps Engineer who can embed security directly into the software development life cycle while remaining actively involved in engineering, automation, cloud infrastructure, and platform delivery.

This is not a traditional security administration or governance role. We are looking for an engineer who writes code, builds automation, develops cloud-native solutions, and integrates security into modern software delivery practices.

The Opportunity

As a DevSecOps Engineer, you will work closely with Software Engineers, Platform Engineers, Cloud Architects, and Security teams to build secure-by-design solutions across AWS environments.

You will be responsible for automating security controls, improving cloud security posture, developing CI/CD pipelines, and implementing security tooling within a fast-paced engineering environment.

The successful candidate will have strong software engineering capabilities alongside cloud and security expertise.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain secure AWS cloud infrastructure.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and AWS-native tooling.
• Build security controls directly into CI/CD pipelines.
• Develop automation scripts and tooling using Python, Go, TypeScript, or similar languages.
• Implement container security across Kubernetes and Docker environments.
• Integrate security scanning, vulnerability management, and compliance controls into engineering workflows.
• Collaborate with software development teams to improve secure coding practices.
• Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, and incident response automation.
• Support threat modelling and secure architecture reviews.
• Drive DevSecOps best practices across engineering teams.
• Contribute to platform engineering and cloud-native application delivery.

Required Experience

• Proven experience in a DevSecOps, Platform Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, or Software Engineering role.
• Strong AWS experience including services such as:
• IAM
• ECS/EKS
• Lambda
• CloudWatch
• VPC
• Secrets Manager
• Security Hub
• GuardDuty
• Hands-on software development experience using:
• Python
• Go
• TypeScript
• Java (desirable)
• Strong Terraform and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
• Strong understanding of secure software development practices.
• Experience integrating security tooling into development workflows.
• Familiarity with modern observability and monitoring platforms.

Desirable Experience

• AWS Security Speciality certification.
• Experience with Open Policy Agent (OPA).
• Experience with GitHub Actions, GitLab CI or Jenkins.
• Knowledge of container runtime security.
• Experience within highly regulated or enterprise-scale environments.
• Exposure to cloud-native security platforms and zero-trust architectures.
• Understanding of SOC2, ISO27001, NIST or Cyber Essentials frameworks.

What Success Looks Like

• Security becomes embedded within the engineering life cycle rather than acting as a gatekeeper.
• Automated controls reduce risk without slowing delivery.
• Development teams can deploy securely and confidently.
• Cloud environments remain scalable, resilient, and secure by design.
• Engineering and security teams operate as a single delivery function.

Why Apply?

• Work on modern AWS cloud platforms.
• Engineering-first culture.
• Opportunity to shape DevSecOps practices across the organisation.
• Significant investment in cloud, platform, and security capabilities.
• Exposure to cutting-edge automation and cloud-native technologies.
• Genuine influence on technical direction and security strategy.