DevSecOps Engineer

Our client is a global technology business operating in a highly critical and fast-evolving space, making this a strong opportunity to work on meaningful security challenges across complex systems, modern infrastructure, and high-impact engineering environments.

Our client is seeking a Software Security Developer / DevSecOps Engineer to support secure development practices across applications, embedded systems, cloud platforms, and broader IT environments. This role is suited to someone with a strong software development foundation who can contribute to DevSecOps processes, identify security weaknesses, and help improve internal security standards and procedures.

The successful candidate will work closely with regional and global engineering teams, supporting secure development, vulnerability management, and the ongoing improvement of internal product security processes. This role will also partner with the wider security function and help promote secure engineering practices across the business.

Key Responsibilities

• Support day-to-day security engineering activities across development and operations environments
• Help build and improve internal tools, workflows, and processes for engineering and business teams using strong software development practices
• Manage and maintain code through DevOps and CI/CD pipelines
• Use GitLab extensively for source control, daily activity tracking, and CI/CD support
• Contribute to cross-functional security initiatives and support the internal security team
• Act as a key contact for regional engineering teams on secure development practices and internal security processes
• Assist in driving product security and vulnerability management activities across the development lifecycle
• Provide guidance and support to more junior team members
• Support both regional and global engineering and security initiatives

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field is strongly preferred
• Around 4 to 7 years of relevant experience across software development, coding, DevOps, and CI/CD environments
• Strong coding experience, particularly in object-oriented programming languages such as C++
• Good understanding of modern software development environments, IT risk, and security implementation practices
• Familiarity with security frameworks such as OWASP SAMM is advantageous
• Additional certifications such as CISSP, CEH, or similar are beneficial
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, along with solid business and stakeholder management capability
• Able to communicate security requirements clearly across a broad range of teams
• Strong documentation, diagramming, and presentation skills
• Demonstrated leadership ability, sound judgment, and the ability to influence change in a fast-moving environment
• Capable of making meaningful technical contributions across the product, application, and service development lifecycle

Preferred Experience

• Experience in software development across IT applications, embedded systems, software platforms, or web-based applications
• Exposure to lab-based testing and debugging on target hardware
• Hands-on experience with Git and related source code management tools
• Familiarity with Linux kernel concepts, networking stacks, and relevant security features
• Experience configuring or working with Windows, Linux, Android, and iOS environments
• Understanding of computer boot processes and boot loaders
• Familiarity with low-level development and analysis tools such as compilers, debuggers, and disassemblers
• Exposure to reverse engineering, protocol analysis, and security control bypass techniques in a legitimate engineering or security context