Job Description
Senior Software Engineer (DevSecOps) - INSIDE IR35 - Hybrid 2/3 days a week on site - circa £550 per day
We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to work on a major programme for a client and you will need to be willing to work up to 2/3 days a week onsite
Key responsibilities
Development process
* Ship small, frequent changes by default: adopt trunk-based development, use feature flags, and enable automated approvals for low risk paths; visualise and act on DORA/flow constraints with the team.
* Treat the Golden Path as the default for new and refactored services; surface policy drift and contribute fixes/templates that improve speed and consistency.
* Lead squad adoption of Golden Path patterns; identify and fix policy drift in pipelines or IaC modules.
* Troubleshoot and remove flow bottlenecks caused by pipelines, environments, data provisioning, or test flakiness.
* Ensure services are instrumented with deployment annotations, golden signals, SLOs, and audit-ready evidence.
* Design for ephemeral/data-ready environments (idempotent data, test hooks, parity enforcement).
* Embed contract/performance/resilience/security tests in CI; elevate squad testability patterns.
Skills (Technical & Delivery)
* Strong in at least one modern language/runtime and cloud native design; solid understanding of API, events, resilience, and observability patterns.
* Testability and shift left (contract/performance/resilience/security) in CI; performance profiling and failover/restore basics.
* Advanced knowledge of CI/CD automation, progressive delivery (feature flags, canary/blue green, rollback), and secure by design patterns.
* Strong understanding of environment architecture (ephemeral envs, drift detection, data on demand).
* Skilled in observability (tracing, metrics, logs) and how to diagnose issues from them.
* Able to assess squad level DORA/flow metrics and remove constraints.
Knowledge & Experience
* Delivered changes through the Golden Path with policy as code guardrails; contributed to release linked observability and improved lead time/CFR at squad level.
* Worked with Release/Environments/QE to run progressive delivery, rehearsals, and data ready testing.
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