DevSecOps Capability Manager

Hours: 35 hours per week. Closing Date: Sat, 4 Jul 2026. Job Overview As our DevSecOps Capability Manager, you’ll lead and scale Skipton’s DevSecOps capability to enable fast, safe and compliant software delivery across our product and platform teams.

You will be accountable for embedding secure‑by‑design principles, modern automation practices, and policy‑as‑code into our CI/CD ecosystem, ensuring that our engineering teams can deliver high quality change with confidence. You will drive improvements in lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate and system reliability, all measured through our Engineering Scorecard. This role blends technical strategy, leadership, governance and hands‑on capability development to strengthen our engineering foundations and support delivery of the Society’s Corporate Plan.

Key Responsibilities Own lead time for changes and deployment frequency outcomes across shared pipelines and platforms. Publish DORA and flow metrics monthly, using them to drive targeted improvements. Remove delivery bottlenecks through automation and policy‑as‑code, including trunk‑based development, automated approvals for low‑risk changes, canary/blue‑green deployment and auto‑rollback.

Trigger “scorecard → investment” actions when performance thresholds are breached to restore flow, quality and reliability. Lead, coach and develop a team of 3–5 DevSecOps Engineers. Define and maintain DevSecOps standards, patterns and best practices across engineering teams.

Build a high‑performing engineering culture focused on security, automation and continuous improvement. Set the strategy for DevSecOps capabilities, including pipeline standardisation and security automation. Establish governance for secure CI/CD, infrastructure‑as‑code and cloud delivery.

Define and enforce Observability Minimum Standards including tracing, SLOs, release‑linked annotations and dashboards. Mandate security in the pipeline, including secrets protection, SAST/SCA/DAST, IaC scanning and WAF coverage for external apps. Govern Golden Path (ProdOS) templates, patterns and adoption levels.

Oversee the reliability, performance and security posture of pipelines, platforms and engineering tooling. Ensure effective vulnerability management, including remediation tracking and escalation. Provide leadership during incidents and post‑incident reviews, improving MTTR and root‑cause clarity.

Integrate telemetry across Azure Defender, Entra and WAF to unify our security posture. Use SLO/error‑budget signals and observability insights to inform go/no‑go and rollback decisions. Act as a senior advisor to Engineering Managers, Product Owners and Cyber Security teams, ensuring alignment on security requirements.

Represent DevSecOps across governance forums and contribute to technology‑wide decisions. Lead decisions on DevSecOps tooling, evaluation and lifecycle management. Drive automation across testing, security scanning, deployment, monitoring and compliance.

Partner with Cloud and Platform Engineering to ensure scalable, resilient and consistent DevSecOps ecosystems. Own the Golden Path service catalogue, including pipelines, IaC modules and secure defaults. Embed BCP and operational resilience controls directly as policy‑as‑code.

Ensure pipelines produce audit‑ready evidence for regulated environments. Run periodic gamedays with Release & Environment teams to validate recoverability. Qualifications Strong leadership and people‑management experience, particularly coaching senior engineers.

Deep expertise in CI/CD design, automation and security integration. Strong understanding of cloud platforms, containerisation, infrastructure‑as‑code and modern delivery patterns. Demonstrated ability to address and remediate security risks at scale.

Excellent communication and influencing skills across technical and non‑technical audiences. Proven track record of improving DORA and flow metrics through automation and modern engineering practices. Experience defining observability standards and implementing unified dashboards.

Extensive experience in DevOps, security engineering or platform engineering within complex or regulated environments. Strong working knowledge of automated security tooling (SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning, container scanning). Experience in cloud security, identity and access management, zero‑trust principles and platform guardrails.

Practical involvement in incident management and post‑incident review processes. Demonstrable delivery of policy‑as‑code and compliance‑as‑code in regulated environments. Benefits Annual discretionary bonus scheme. 25 days standard annual leave + bank holidays + 1 additional day per year of service up to a maximum of 30 days.

Holiday trading scheme to buy and sell additional annual leave days. Matching employee pension contribution (up to 10% per annum). Colleague mortgage (conditions apply).

Salary sacrifice scheme for hybrid & electric car. Commitment to training and development. Private medical insurance for all colleagues.

Three paid volunteering days per annum. Cycling to work initiative and discounted gym membership. #J-18808-Ljbffr