DevSecOps Engineer at Ministry of Justice, London, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

On behalf of The Ministry of Justice, we are looking for a DevSecOps Engineer (Inside IR35) for a 6 Month contract based Hybrid in any MOJ Office.

The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) priorities include improving public safety and reducing reoffending by reforming prisons, probation and youth justice, and building a justice system which makes access to justice swifter and more certain for all citizens whatever their background. Project professionals in the MoJ help to improve the government's ability to protect the public and reduce reoffending, and to provide a more effective, transparent and responsive criminal justice system for victims and the public.

As a DevSecOps Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:

• Responsible for ensuring that the replacement LAA systems are security compliant, adhering to standards such as Secure by Design and GovAssure, utilising a shift left mentality to fix problems before production.
• Responsible for ensuring that security is built into every part of the development lifecycle, specifically ensuring that security tooling (native and non-native) is properly embedded into CI/CD CI/CD pipelines.

Essential:

• Strong hands-on expertise in DevSecOps practices, particularly security automation in CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code pipelines.
• Deep understanding of modern DevOps tooling (e.g., GitHub Actions/ CircleCI, Terraform, Kubernetes, Docker) with secure configurations.
• Experience implementing security controls in cloud-native environments (e.g., AWS or Azure) including IAM, network policies, and container security.
• Proven track record of using tools such as Snyk, Trivy, Checkov, OPA/Gatekeeper/ OWASP ZAP, or similar to enforce pipeline and platform security.
• Familiarity with compliance requirements (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001, CIS Benchmarks) and their implementation via code.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, MOJ guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

The Ministry of Justice guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.