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DevSecOps Engineer
Fractional Talent · London, ENG, United Kingdom
London, ENG, United KingdomRemote
Remuneration
Not specified
Location
London, ENG, United Kingdom
Visa sponsorship
Not specified
Job summary
Own and improve the CI/CD pipelines, AWS infrastructure, security standards, and reliability practices that support a platform delivering content through Apple News. Build automation, harden cloud services and code against risks including the OWASP Top 10, and maintain observability and incident response. The platform uses JavaScript, TypeScript, Node.js, MongoDB, and Apple News Format, with daily use of AI development tools.
Benefits
Randomized social one-to-one meetingsFriday socialsVirtual officeOptional UK meetups
Qualifications
- Significant commercial experience operating production CI/CD pipelines, deployments, and cloud infrastructure
- Strong AWS skills, including IAM, secrets management, and least privilege
- Knowledge of secure coding practices and the OWASP Top 10
- Experience with infrastructure as code, scripting, and maintaining robust, observable systems
- Experience securing, configuring, and operating MongoDB; Atlas experience preferred
- Ability to review and secure JavaScript and TypeScript code
- Sound judgment in reliability and incident response
- Ability to make technical decisions independently and bring the team along
- Daily practical use of AI development tools
- Comfort with Git workflows and agile teams
- Based in the UK and available during 10am–6pm GMT core hours
- Threat modelling, penetration testing awareness, or a security certification preferred
- Experience mentoring or reviewing engineers' work preferred
- Publishing or media experience preferred
- Apple News Format experience preferred; training provided
Responsibilities
- Build, automate, and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
- Configure, automate, and securely operate AWS infrastructure
- Set secure coding standards and address vulnerabilities, secrets, and platform hardening
- Maintain observability and alerting, and support incident response
- Promote secure and reliable engineering practices across the team
- Use AI-assisted approaches to improve development, automation, security, and delivery
Skills
AWSDockerGitGitHubGitHub ActionsIAMJavaScriptKubernetesMongoDBNode.jsTerraformTypeScript
Certifications
Security certification preferred
Work schedule
Monday to Friday, 10am–6pm GMT
Travel
Optional UK meetups
Industry
PublishingMedia
Company size
Small, lean team
Relocation
No