Contractor Head of DevSecOps

• Would you relish the challenge of embedding a true DevSecOps culture across an ambitious, tech-driven organisation?
• Are you passionate about leveraging automation and cloud innovation to deliver secure, scalable, and high-performing services?
• Can you inspire technical excellence while balancing innovation, governance, and continuous improvement?

If so, we’d love to hear from you!

As the Head of DevSecOps, you will lead the strategy, implementation, and continuous improvement of our IT operations and security management across cloud-based solutions — primarily within Azure and Microsoft 365 environments.

You will be responsible for ensuring the stability, security, and efficiency of our IT services, safeguarding digital assets, maintaining compliance with relevant industry standards (including ISO 27001), and supporting seamless DevOps practices across the organisation.

The ideal candidate will champion a DevSecOps mindset, embedding security and automation into every stage of our development and operational processes. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to integrate robust security controls from the outset, enhance processes and playbooks, and strengthen our overall security posture.

• Strategy & Leadership: Defining, championing, and executing the company’s DevOps, and cloud roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives emphasising system optimisation and pioneering innovation.
• Team Management: Leading, mentoring, and nurturing a high-performing team of DevOps, Identity and Integration Engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence.
• Azure Cloud Services Management: Overseeing the design, implementation, and optimisation of our secure, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure. Driving the adoption services and ensuring compliance to all Disaster Recovery Plans.
• Automation & CI/CD: Instilling and enforcing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles. Continuously improving and automating our CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and frequent software releases.
• Site Reliability: Establishing and tracking key reliability metrics (SLAs). Overseeing monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, disaster recovery, and capacity planning to maintain the availability, performance, and security of live services.
• Facilitating Business Change: Supporting new business initiatives and service improvements implementing both Waterfall and Agile methodologies, utilising Azure DevOps for comprehensive backlog management, pipeline integration, and Test Plans.
• Security & Compliance: Integrating security best practices into the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Ensuring compliance with relevant industry standards (e.g., GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2) critical for an enterprise SaaS company dealing with sensitive client data.
• Cost Optimisation (FinOps): Managing cloud spending effectively, identifying and implementing cost-saving measures without compromising performance or reliability.
• Continuous Service Improvement: Actively seeking out opportunities for enhancement and engaging in collaboration across Service teams to support the Service Continuous Service Improvement Programme. This initiative is dedicated to elevating service performance, reducing operational costs, minimising technical debt, and bolstering security measures.

We are looking for someone with the following:

• Proven IT Operations Leadership: Demonstrable experience in managing complex IT operations, with a strong emphasis on cloud services and support management.
• Expertise in Cloud Technologies: Extensive hands-on experience with Azure and M365, from architecture, design, build and test, release to service management.
• Operational Excellence: A track record of enhancing IT service delivery, managing change portfolios, and upholding IT security protocols and build standards.
• Strategic Vision: Adept at translating IT capabilities into strategic business advantages.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Skilled at building strong relationships and influencing effectively across organisational boundaries to foster collaboration.
• Line management experience: Experienced in leading internal teams and managing contract service providers, including Azure DevSecOps engineers, service architects, full-stack software engineers, test engineers, delivery managers, scrum masters, and business analysts.
• Commitment to Excellence: Dedicated to driving innovation, embedding best practices, and upholding the highest standards of compliance and security.

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