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With more than 200 years history, join us and help to accelerate the transition to net-zero!
As a Senior Sec DevOps Engineer you’ll contribute to JM’s mission as a world leader in sustainable technology, transforming energy and reducing carbon emissions for a cleaner, brighter future.
The role:
We’re seeking a Senior Sec DevOps Engineer to lead the strategic integration of security into our software delivery lifecycle. This is a senior-level role focused on embedding scalable, automated security controls across cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and application architecture. You’ll play a critical role in defining and driving our Sec DevOps roadmap, aligning with engineering leadership and risk stakeholders to protect the integrity, availability, and confidentiality of our systems at scale.
As a Senior Sec DevOps Engineer, you will help drive our goals by:
- Drive automation-first initiatives across infrastructure provisioning, deployments, monitoring, and incident response.
- Establish best practices for cloud-native platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, serverless, microservices) including observability, performance, cost optimization, and governance.
- Proactively reduce organizational risk by embedding resilience, compliance, and security controls into infrastructure, pipelines, and workflows.
- Serve as the technical authority for DevOps and platform reliability, contributing to architecture reviews, operational readiness, and incident management.
- Enable developers through scaffolding, self-service platforms, and golden paths (e.g., Backstage, internal developer portals), improving productivity while maintaining standards.
- Partner with Security Operations and Vulnerability Management to integrate Sec DevOps practices into pipelines, tooling, and infrastructure.
- Mentor engineers across teams on DevOps practices, fostering a culture of ownership, automation, and continuous improvement.
- Collaborate with leadership and stakeholders to balance speed, security, reliability, and cost efficiency in system design and operations.
- Refine incident response and postmortem processes, ensuring lessons learned improve resilience, tooling, and processes.
Key skills that will help you succeed in this role:
- 5+ years in DevOps, Platform, or Infrastructure Engineering, including experience in a lead or senior role.
- Proven track record of building and scaling cloud-native platforms at enterprise scale (ideally Azure).
- Expert in Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation) and Kubernetes ecosystem (Helm, Operators, GitOps).
- Strong experience with CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Argo, etc.) and pipeline security.
- Proficient in at least one scripting or programming language (Python, Go, Bash, etc.).
- Hands-on experience with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry, Datadog, etc.) and automation frameworks.
- Familiarity with developer enablement tooling such as Backstage, scaffolding frameworks, and internal developer platforms.
- Familiarity with FinOps and cost optimization in cloud environments.
- Exposure to security tooling (e.g. Wiz, Snyk, Trivy, Checkov, Vault, Prisma, SonarQube, etc.) and compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001, NIST, GDPR).
Even if you only match some of the skills, we’d love to hear from you to discuss further!
What we offer:
We make sure salaries are fair, competitive and aligned to individual roles, experience and responsibilities. We are also supportive of hybrid and flexible working and where applicable, offer life, medical and other benefits that support our employees’ financial and physical wellbeing, such as:
- Competitive salary
- Private health insurance
- Discretionary annual bonuses & salary reviews
- Incentivized referral bonus program
- Remote working model
- Team building events
- Professional development budget (Certifications, e-learning platforms and conferences)
- Psychological Health Support Program (Elements and other wellbeing initiatives)
- Wellbeing support
Ready to make a meaningful impact on your career and the environment? Join us and help shape a sustainable future while advancing your career!
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