DevSecOps Security Consultant (FS Industry)
3 days ago
Sheffield
Job Title: DevSecOps Security Consultant\n Location: Sheffield or Birmingham (hybrid - 3 days per week)\n Salary/Rate: £(Apply online only) per day inside IR35\n Start Date: May\n Job Type: Initial contract until 18/05/2027\n\nCompany Introduction\n We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our sector-leading consultancy clients! They are currently looking for a skilled DevSecOps Security Consultant to join their client at a Tier 1 bank in either Sheffield or Birmingham on a hybrid basis.\n\nJob Responsibilities/Objectives\n We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Cybersecurity SME / Consultant to join the Engineering Excellence and Enablement team. The successful candidate will work across global engineering platforms to benchmark, uplift, and continuously evolve cybersecurity maturity. The successful candidate will play a critical role in ensuring that build systems, runtime infrastructure, and developer tooling are secure by design, while enabling rapid and resilient software delivery across the bank.\n This role offers a unique opportunity to shape the cybersecurity posture of engineering platforms at one of the world?s leading financial institutions, ensuring the bank can deliver digital services securely, reliably, and at scale.\n\nFramework and Assessment\n\nDevelop and maintain an Engineering-Platform Cybersecurity Maturity Framework to standardise assessments across platforms.\nConduct comprehensive platform security reviews (build systems, CI/CD pipelines, runtime infrastructure, developer tooling) against defined framework criteria.\nPerform threat modelling and gap analysis, identifying vulnerabilities and systemic risks impacting source code, artifacts, and workloads.Engineering Platform Security Enablement\n\nEstablish standardised secure architecture and engineering patterns for build systems, CI/CD pipelines, runtime environments, and developer tooling.\nDefine and enforce platform security baselines using policy-as-code and automated controls.\nPartner with platform owners to remediate critical gaps and implement scalable solutions for artifact integrity, access control, and configuration security.\nIntegrate vulnerability management, SBOM, provenance, and code-signing practices within engineering workflows.Roadmap Development & Execution\n\nPrioritise identified gaps based on business risk, regulatory impact, and operational criticality.\nCollaborate with platform owners and engineering leads to build actionable security roadmaps, balancing quick wins with long-term strategic improvements.\nPartner with engineering teams to design, develop, and embed security patterns and best practices into engineering platforms.Stakeholder Engagement & Governance\n\nServe as a trusted advisor to platform owners, senior technology stakeholders, and Cybersecurity leadership, translating technical risks into business impact.\nRepresent the function in key governance forums, providing updates on maturity progress, roadmap delivery, and risk posture.\nInfluence and align stakeholders across federated engineering teams to ensure consistent adoption of cybersecurity best practices.Continuous Improvement\n\nTrack and report maturity scores, ensuring measurable improvement across platforms.\nContinuously evolve the maturity framework in response to emerging threats, technology evolution, and regulatory expectations.\nDrive a culture of secure-by-design engineering through engagement, advocacy, and knowledge sharing.Required Skills/Experience\n The ideal candidate will have the following:\n\nProven expertise in Cybersecurity within large-scale, regulated financial institutions or similarly complex environments.\nDeep technical knowledge of engineering platforms, including CI/CD systems, build tools, artifact repositories, runtime environments, and developer tooling.\nStrong experience with DevSecOps practices, including secure pipeline design, integration of security scanning tools, and automation of security controls.\nStrong knowledge and understanding of service mesh, cryptography, network security, application security, vulnerability management, and risk management.\nDemonstrable ability to conduct threat modelling, platform security assessments, and gap analysis.\nExperience building and implementing maturity models, frameworks, or roadmaps in complex enterprise environments.\nStrong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence senior leadership and drive change across federated technology teams.\nExcellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical risk into business impact.Desirable Skills/Experience\n Although not essential, the following skills are desired by the client:\n\nProfessional certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CCSK, CCSP, or equivalent.\nHands-on knowledge of cloud security (AWS, Azure, GCP) and container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes).\nExperience in international and diverse environments, with exposure to regulatory engagement.\nFamiliarity with engineering excellence practices such as SLSA, supply chain security, SBOM, or secure developer tooling initiatives.If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.\n\nDisclaimer\n Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.\n Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. 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