DevSecOps Engineer - Secure AI Defence Platform

Salary: £80,000-£90,000
Location: Hybrid / Ad-hoc on-site (London, Belfast, or Corsham)
Clearance: Active SC required

About the Company

Join a fast-growing UK defence-AI organisation building a sovereign, mission-critical AI operating system used across MoD environments. They specialise in secure, deploy-anywhere AI. From cloud to air-gapped systems and are backed by major defence partners.

The Role

You'll help engineer and secure the infrastructure behind cutting-edge defence AI platforms. This is a hands-on, impactful role working across cloud, security, CI/CD, and automation in highly secure environments.

Responsibilities

Build and secure cloud infrastructure on GCP and/or AWS
Own CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/CloudFormation)
Embed security across the build and deployment lifecycle
Implement container security (Docker/Kubernetes), secrets management and scanning
Support deployments into restricted, offline, or air-gapped environments
Automate security controls, monitoring, and compliance
Collaborate with engineering and product teams on secure architecture

What You'll Bring

Strong experience with AWS and/or GCP
Deep DevSecOps/DevOps background (CI/CD, IaC, containers, automation)
Solid cloud security knowledge (IAM, network security, encryption)
Scripting skills (Python/Bash)
Incident response and security tooling experience
Active SC Clearance

Bonus: Defence experience, Kubernetes expertise, zero-trust knowledge, or exposure to AI/ML infrastructure.

Why It's Exciting

Work on real sovereign AI used in live defence programmes
Build secure systems for high-assurance, classified environments
Join a rapidly scaling team shaping the future of defence technology
Collaborate with leading AI and security engineers
Flexible hybrid working with mission-focused on-site sessions

If this sounds of interest please feel free to drop me a copy of your CV and we can ave a chat b.coombes @ ioassociates . co.uk