DevSecOps Capability Manager

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Hours: 35 hours per week Closing Date: Fri, 12 Jun 2026 As our DevSecOps Capability Manager, you'll lead and scale Skipton's DevSecOps capability to enable fast, safe and compliant software delivery across our product and platform teams. You will be accountable for embedding secure by design principles, modern automation practices, and policy as code into our CI/CD ecosystem, ensuring that our engineering teams can deliver high quality change with confidence. You will drive improvements in lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate and system reliability, all measured through our Engineering Scorecard. This role blends technical strategy, leadership, governance and hands on capability development to strengthen our engineering foundations and support delivery of the Society's Corporate Plan. What will you be doing? Value, Flow & Quality Owning lead time for changes and deployment frequency outcomes across shared pipelines and platforms. Publishing DORA and flow metrics monthly, using them to drive targeted improvements. Removing delivery bottlenecks through automation and policy as code , including trunk based development, automated approvals for low risk changes, canary/ blue green deployment and auto rollback . Triggering "scorecard → investment" actions when performance thresholds are breached to restore flow, quality and reliability. Leadership & Capability Development Leading, coaching and developing a team of 3-5 DevSecOps Engineers. Defining and maintaining DevSecOps standards, patterns and best practices across engineering teams. Building a high performing engineering culture focused on security, automation and continuous improvement. Strategy, Governance & Technical Direction Setting the strategy for DevSecOps capabilities, including pipeline standardisation and security automation. Establishing governance for secure CI/CD, infrastructure as code and cloud delivery. Defining and enforcing Observability Minimum Standards including tracing, SLOs, release linked annotations and dashboards. Mandating security in the pipeline , including secrets protection, SAST/SCA/DAST, IaC scanning and WAF coverage for external apps. Governing Golden Path ( ProdOS ) templates, patterns and adoption levels. Operational Oversight & Risk Management Overseeing the reliability, performance and security posture of pipelines, platforms and engineering tooling. Ensuring effective vulnerability management, including remediation tracking and escalation. Providing leadership during incidents and post incident reviews, improving MTTR and root cause clarity. Integrating telemetry across Azure, Defender, Entra and WAF to unify our security posture. Using SLO/ error budget signals and observability insights to inform go/ no go and rollback decisions. Collaboration Across Technology & Business Acting as a senior advisor to Engineering Managers, Product Owners and Cyber Security teams. Ensuring strong alignment on security requirements, delivery processes and adoption of modern practices. Representing DevSecOps across governance forums and contributing to technology wide decisions. Acting as a visible advocate for safe, rapid delivery and sharing best practice internally and externally. Tooling, Automation & Platform Optimisation Leading decisions on DevSecOps tooling, including evaluation and lifecycle management. Driving automation across testing, security scanning, deployment, monitoring and compliance. Partnering with Cloud and Platform Engineering to ensure scalable, resilient and consistent DevSecOps ecosystems. Owning the Golden Path service catalogue, including pipelines, IaC modules and secure defaults. Business Continuity & Operational Resilience Embedding BCP and operational resilience controls directly as policy as code . Ensuring pipelines produce audit ready evidence for regulated environments. Running periodic game days with Release & Environments teams to validate recoverability. What do we need from you? Knowledge, skills & experience Strong leadership and people management experience, particularly coaching senior engineers. Deep expertise in CI/CD design, automation and security integration. Strong understanding of cloud platforms, containerisation, infrastructure as code and modern delivery patterns. Demonstrated ability to address and remediate security risks at scale. Excellent communication and influencing skills across technical and non technical audiences. Proven track record of improving DORA and flow metrics through automation and modern engineering practices. Experience defining observability standards and implementing unified dashboards. Extensive experience in DevOps, security engineering or platform engineering within complex or regulated environments. Strong working knowledge of automated security tooling (SAST, SCA, DAST, secrets scanning, container scanning). Experience in cloud security, identity and access management, zero trust principles a