Lead DevSecOps Engineer

About Arondite

Arondite enables organisations to wield autonomy, data and AI at scale. We equip operators with the foundational software to orchestrate their mix of platforms and capabilities, and then take mission-critical decisions faster than their adversaries.

We exist to ensure the UK and its allies out-think, out-pace and out-adapt those who seek to threaten our values and way of life. Our technology is designed for deployment in the world’s most austere environments, and is relied upon by the world’s most demanding operators. We deploy alongside them, bringing our technical expertise wherever it is needed.

You will join Arondite at a pivotal moment in the company’s journey. We are ambitious, building for the long-term and backed by globally renowned investors including Index Ventures (Anthropic, Wiz, Figma, Revolut). Our company is being built by exceptional engineers - people who find high-impact and technically challenging work engaging and exciting, and who consistently deliver outsized impact. You will collaborate with other brilliant minds to solve some of the world’s hardest and most important problems.

You will have ownership and autonomy from Day One. There is no corporate ladder at Arondite. From your first day, you will directly influence the design, functionality, and direction of Arondite’s product offering. We hire the best people and give them extremely high levels of autonomy; the sky is the limit for an individual with the right ambition.

If you are motivated by our mission and if you want to be part of a growing team of outstanding people, then we want to hear from you.

About the role

As Lead DevSecOps Engineer at Arondite you will be driving platform engineering and developer experience. You will take full ownership of our internal development ecosystem, evolving it into a secure, robust, self-service platform that abstracts infrastructure complexity. You will design and maintain the "Golden Path": the standardized, automated route from local code to a production-ready state. You will need to be versatile and view infrastructure as a product, with our internal developers as your primary customers.

Being a lead at an early stage company will mean building a team to continue delivering and improving the capabilities as we scale. You will need to engage with stakeholders to build a DevSecOps roadmap, and you will set the technical direction in order to deliver the required outcomes. You will also support and mentor less experienced engineers by reviewing their outputs and giving them feedback.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Taking end-to-end ownership of the internal developer platform, identifying bottlenecks in the secure software development lifecycle and building automated solutions to resolve them.
• Architecting and evolving standardized deployment patterns that bake in security, compliance, and observability, allowing product teams to focus on delivering customer functionality.
• Ensuring high availability, performance, and seamless integration of our self-hosted engineering suite (GitLab) with the wider ecosystem.
• Managing infrastructure-as-code practices and tooling to deliver version-controlled, auditable, and reproducible infrastructure
• Driving the adoption of modern deployment methodologies (such as GitOps) to ensure declarative, reproducible, and audited state management across all environments.
• Owning automated security tooling (e.g. SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning, and secrets detection) to deliver security audit evidence for the platform