Contract: DevSecOps Engineer

Start Date: ASAP

Duration: 6 months

Location: Suffolk - onsite 3 days per week

Rate: £500 - £510 per day inside of IR35

Reference: 20280

The Role

The consultant will work closely with technical and delivery teams to identify, design, and validate cloud security controls across Azure environments. This is a hands-on, advisory-focused role, helping ensure that appropriate security frameworks and best practices are Embedded as cloud adoption scales.

Key Responsibilities:

• Architect and implement secure Azure environments, integrating DevOps and CI/CD pipelines with security gates.
• Develop and enforce Policy as Code, IAM, and privileged access security controls.
• Manage Azure security services (Defender for Cloud, Sentinel, Azure Policy) and ensure robust network security (VNETs, NSGs, Firewalls, VPN/ExpressRoute).
• Oversee data protection, secrets management, and container security (AKS).
• Integrate SAST/DAST/SCA tools into CI/CD pipelines and collaborate on compliance (NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR).

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of hands-on cloud security experience with Azure.
• Proven expertise in secure architecture design and DevOps integration.
• Strong knowledge of IAM, Conditional Access, MFA, and PIM.
• Familiarity with security tools (MS Defender, Palo Alto Prisma) and compliance frameworks.
• Relevant certifications: AZ-500, AZ-400, CCSP (preferred)

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a regulated industry (eg, financial services, insurance).
• Information Security and/or Information Technology industry certification (CISSP, CISM, CRISC).
• Experience with other Cloud vendors (AWS, GCP).
• Scripting and automation expertise (eg, PowerShell, Python, Bash).

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