DevSecOps Engineer

Role Overview
The DevSecOps Engineer is a mid-level technical role responsible for designing, building, and maintaining DevSecOps pipelines that enable CI/CD across the programme’s application development and deployment lifecycle. Reporting to the Infrastructure Lead, this role plays a critical enabling function across the build, test, and deployment phases of the core banking and payments transformation, ensuring development teams have robust, secure, and efficient pipelines to support reliable software delivery.

Key Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines supporting application development, testing, and deployment across the programme’s SDLC lifecycle
Integrate security controls and automated security checks into pipelines at every stage, embedding a shift-left security approach across the development lifecycle
Configure and manage DevSecOps tooling across source code control, code scanning, static and dynamic analysis, code merging, dependency management, packaging, and artefact management
Implement and maintain automated testing integrations within pipelines, coordinating with the Test Automation Lead to ensure functional, regression, and security test suites are triggered and reported correctly
Manage version control processes and branching strategies, ensuring consistency and traceability across development streams and release branches
Continuously monitor, maintain, and iterate on pipelines to improve deployment efficiency and address bottlenecks as the programme scales through successive test cycles
Troubleshoot and resolve pipeline failures, environment issues, and deployment blockers, escalating complex issues to the Infrastructure Lead as appropriate
Collaborate with the Security Architect to ensure security scanning, vulnerability management, and compliance checks are embedded within pipeline workflows
Support environment provisioning and infrastructure-as-code activities using tools such as Terraform or Ansible, coordinating with the broader infrastructure team

Technical Expertise Required

Hands-on proficiency with CI/CD platforms such as Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions
Strong experience with source code control and version management tools, particularly Git, including branching strategies and merge request workflows
Proficiency in code quality and security scanning tools such as SonarQube, Checkmarx, Snyk, or OWASP ZAP
Experience with containerisation and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or CloudFormation
Working knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP and their native DevSecOps tooling
Familiarity with monitoring and observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK Stack

Qualifications & Experience

4 to 6 years of hands-on experience in DevSecOps, DevOps engineering, or a related discipline
Demonstrated experience designing and managing CI/CD pipelines across multi-team, multi-environment delivery contexts
Strong troubleshooting skills, able to diagnose and resolve pipeline and environment issues under delivery pressure
Experience in banking or financial services environments is advantageous
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field
Certifications such as AWS DevOps Engineer, Azure DevOps Expert, or CKA are advantageous

Core Competencies

Strong technical depth across the DevSecOps toolchain with a delivery-focused problem-solving mindset
Continuous improvement orientation, proactively identifying opportunities to optimise pipeline performance
Collaborative team player across development, testing, security, and infrastructure teams
Meticulous attention to detail in pipeline configuration, security integration, and documentation
Adaptable and resilient under pressure, able to support multiple delivery streams within tight timelines

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

Visit us at www.accenture.com 

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