IT & Software

Lead DevSecOps Engineer

AECOM

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you lead security for AI-driven products and platforms from design to production, focusing on secure-by-design practices and risk reduction without slowing delivery. You will own security sign-off for new features, drive threat modelling and CVE remediation, and oversee testing and incident response with cross-functional teams. You’ll shape the security strategy for AI/LLM capabilities, third‑party dependencies, and the cloud stack, influencing engineers and leaders. This position offers high-visibility impact on sustainable infrastructure and the future of AI-enabled building design.

Pay / Benefits
  • medical, dental, vision
  • life and disability benefits
  • paid time off and leaves of absence
  • voluntary benefits and perks
  • flexible work options
  • retirement savings plan and employee stock purchase plan
Responsibilities
  • Run security reviews of new product designs through to launch, using threat modelling to assess architecture and data flows
  • Own security for AI and LLM features, define guardrails and testing approaches to mitigate risks
  • Secure AI supply chain, assess third-party models, vector stores, and training data usage
  • Maintain CVE remediation across the platform, triage vulnerabilities, and coordinate patching with engineering
  • Maintain and tune CI/CD security tooling (SAST, SCA, secret scanning, container, IaC) with GitHub Actions and Terraform
  • Manage and scoper pen tests, coordinate with external testers, and track remediation to closure
  • Strengthen cloud and identity security across Azure and GCP, including IAM, networking, secrets management
  • Lead security incident response and post‑incident reviews, keeping runbooks up to date
  • Establish a security champions program across engineering teams to share ownership of security
Key requirements
  • Hands-on security engineering or related roles with technical leadership
  • Experience leading security reviews and threat modelling with clear sign-off decisions
  • Vulnerability management and incident response experience including CVE triage
  • Maintaining and tuning security scanning tooling in CI/CD (SAST, SCA, secret, container, IaC) with GitHub Actions and Terraform
  • End-to-end penetration testing management
  • Strong cloud security knowledge in Azure and/or GCP (IAM, networking, secrets)
  • Ability to articulate risk and influence engineers and leaders
  • Experience in fast-moving teams within a large organization with governance processes
  • Clear risk communication
  • Influencing without authority
  • Collaborative problem-solving
  • Threat modelling
  • CVE triage and remediation
  • SAST, SCA, secret scanning, container security, IaC security

Reference: WJ-747_31002031

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