Lead DevSecOps Engineer

Join Our Team as an Lead DevSecOps Engineer (with a Focus on Infrastructure Engineering)!

We are working to secure critical digital infrastructure on a long term programme based out of Gloucester at our state of the art Cyber Centre.

Are you passionate about integrating cutting-edge technologies while ensuring robust security measures?

We’re seeking talented individuals at all levels to join our dynamic team as DevSecOps Engineers, with a particular emphasis on Infrastructure Engineering expertise.

At Lockheed Martin, we’ll provide you with meaningful work and education opportunities that will allow you to develop your skills and enhance your career with us, but equally important, you can also enjoy a strong work-life balance.

To ensure this, we offer a flexible work schedule and a comprehensive benefits package to enable you to live a healthy, fulfilling life in and outside of work.

You’ll play a pivotal role in integrating, administering and securing a range of systems and applications, with a strong focus on designing, building, and maintaining scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure.

As an Engineer within our DevSecOps team, you’ll be at the forefront of driving innovation and safeguarding digital infrastructures by ensuring robust, high-performance systems that support our mission-critical solutions.

• You’ll need to have an understanding of Windows and Linux systems and DevSecOps principles and experience of working within a multi-disciplined team.
• Knowledge and understanding of core software tools, methods, and frameworks to reliably integrate and deploy, integrate, and test features into environments to ensure optimum outcomes for our customers.
• Additionally, we’re looking for candidates with hands-on experience in infrastructure engineering, including expertise in areas such as cloud architecture, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Ansible), and system performance optimization to support seamless integration and testing processes.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, build, deploy and manage a broad set of IT Infrastructure aligning to customer needs and requirements, while leveraging infrastructure engineering best practices to maintain system reliability and scalability with a focus on automation and repeatability.
• Develop Infrastructure as Code and scripts and integrate those with CI/CD pipelines and a wider ecosystem of tools, prioritising automation to streamline deployments.
• Provide full end to end systems lifecycle management covering architecture, design, deployment and support through to decommissioning and migration.
• Support the integration and delivery of large and complex solutions into a wider system-of-systems, ensuring infrastructure components are robust and interoperable.
• Opportunities to experience the cloud by undertaking deployments in Public, Private, and Hybrid Cloud environments, addressing potential constraints while optimizing infrastructure performance and security.
• If you’re passionate about DevSecOps, with a strong focus and background in Infrastructure Engineering, and eager to take your career to the next level, we want to hear from you! Apply now to join our team and embark on an exciting journey of innovation and growth.

Required skills, qualifications and experience :

• Advanced understanding of DevSecOps. The ability to work within an agile environment and delivering using Scrum and Sprints utilising tools such as Jira and Confluence to help planning and collaboration.
• Expert in Windows and Linux systems administration (Active Directory etc).
• Expert in Virtualisation technologies and concepts - VMware vsphere, ARIA Ops performance monitoring, software defined networking - NSX.
• Advanced understanding of Web proxy servers and configuration - Squid.
• Experience of Automation technologies Terraform and Ansible for complex builds, Packer.
• Experience of CI/CD pipeline builds - Jenkins.
• Understanding of Git/Bitbucket/GitLab integration, coding and branching strategies.
• Proficient in the use and administration of Containerisation technologies - Kubernetes, Docker.
• Proficient in Powershell, bash scripting.
• Proficient in Python.
• Proficient in the use of Networking skills - IPv4 addressing and routing.
• Experience of Logging and monitoring using Zabbix and Splunk.
• Experience of Cloud and AWS concepts and technologies.

Desired Skills

• Ability to support maturation of automated CI/CD software pipelines for Cloud deployments.
• Understanding of IaC and using this to deploy and integrate services on Cloud.
• Hands on experience in using and integrating with AWS Services such as EC2, EKS, Fargate, IAM, S3, Lambda.
• Experience using the AWS SDK (Boto3) to automate integration tasks.
• Experience or understanding integrating hybrid-cloud application deployments.
• Understanding of CloudTrail to debug and diagnose integration issues.

We would love to hear from you if you have any of the following Qualifications or Certifications:

• Linux Admin, (RHCSA) or (RHCE).
• Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate.
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Ansible Automation (EX407).
• Terraform Associate certification.
• AWS Certification.
• CCNA Certification.
• Oracle Java Certification.
• ISTQB Certification.
• OSCP Certification.

What we offer you

At Lockheed Martin our employees come first and therefore your physical, mental and financial wellbeing matters to us. On top of working in a highly supportive, friendly, respectful environment you can expect so much more.

We are an employer in support of and offering Flexible working with the option to also work a 4 day week depending on business requirements, where you have the option of Fridays off.

Business Environment

Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems (RMS) provides systems engineering, software development, training solutions and complex program management for global security, civil and commercial markets. Simply stated, our mission is to be the world’s leading global security and aerospace company. To achieve this mission, RMS draws on its core capabilities in advanced platforms and weapons, C4ISR, global sustainment, training and sensors.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Lockheed Martin is committed to upholding principles of equal opportunity, fostering a work environment that is aligned with our core values of integrity, respect, and exceptional performance. We recognize the importance of leveraging the unique talents and experiences of all our employees to drive innovation, deliver superior solutions, and maximize value for our customers. Our focus is on identifying the most qualified candidate for each role, regardless of their background. If you are interested in a position, we invite you to share how your skills and perspectives could bolster our team and encourage you to apply, even if you feel your qualifications do not fully meet all the job criteria outlined in our advertisement. Furthermore, Lockheed Martin is dedicated to ensuring our recruitment process is inclusive for all individuals. We are prepared to accommodate reasonable adjustments for applicants as needed. If you require assistance or adjustments to participate in the job application or interview process, please contact ***email_hidden*** or call View phone number on uk.workus.org.