Devsecops Team Lead

As DevSecOps Team Lead, you bridge Security, Operations and Engineering to scale a Security-as-Code ecosystem. You’ll lead a team of engineers, drive multi-quarter security roadmaps, and embed security into product discovery with automated guardrails. You’ll design secure cloud architectures and manage third-party tools, enabling faster, safer software delivery at scale. This is a chance to shape security practices in a fast-growing global SaaS platform.

• Optional flexible working office membership with IWG
• Additional perks and benefits based on country
• Lead, mentor and coach a team of DevSecOps engineers; conduct performance reviews and foster high performance
• Own the DevSecOps roadmap, aligning security with business and engineering goals
• Serve as primary security liaison for Engineering and Product during Product Discovery; ensure security requirements are baked in
• Lead policy-as-code initiatives (OPA, Kyverno) for automated compliance across environments
• Oversee secure cloud architectures (AWS/Azure/GCP) and Kubernetes with Zero Trust and identity-driven access
• Evaluate and manage third-party security vendors/tools (e.g., Snyk, Wiz, Cloudflare) for ROI and fit
• Define and monitor security KPIs (MTTR, vulnerability burn-down, false positives)
• Act as technical escalation point for high-severity incidents and drive blameless post-mortems
• 6+ years in Security, DevOps, or Infrastructure roles
• 2+ years in a leadership capacity (Team Lead, Tech Lead, or Engineering Manager)
• Proven track record of scaling security in a cloud-native, high-growth environment
• Terraform/OpenTofu, Ansible, and CI/CD platforms (GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) proficiency
• Deep Kubernetes security knowledge (RBAC, Network Policies, Admission Controllers) and cloud security services
• Experience implementing and tuning SAST, DAST, SCA, and Secret Management (HashiCorp Vault) at scale
• Programming skills in Python, Go, or TypeScript for internal tooling
• Pragmatism: balance security with speed of business
• Strong communication: translate risk to executive stakeholders
• Cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management
• Terraform/OpenTofu
• Ansible
• GitHub Actions