DevSecOps Lead
- North Ryde, NSW
- Contract
- Full-time
- Conduct regular one-to-ones, performance reviews, and professional development planning for team members.
- Maintain a roadmap for DevSecOps initiatives, aligning with broader business objectives.
- Architect and implement secure, cost-effective solutions on AWS using services such as EC2, S3, IAM, Lambda, VPC, and GuardDuty.
- Write, review, and maintain high-quality Terraform code for provisioning and managing cloud infrastructure.
- Manage and optimise the source control strategy in GitHub, including branching models, access controls, and repository security.
- Integrate and manage security tools within the CI/CD pipeline to provide automated security testing and feedback to developers.
- Act as a senior technical escalation point for complex cloud and security incidents.
- Collaborate with architects to design secure-by-default cloud patterns and reference architectures.
- Lead security reviews, threat modelling exercises, and compliance audits.
- Monitor service health, performance, and cost, implementing observability tooling and optimising where necessary.
- Present findings from user feedback and analytics to stakeholders to gain buy-in for service enhancements.
- Minimum 3+ years proven experience in a leadership or management role, responsible for a technical team of cloud/devsecops engineers.
- Demonstrable experience leading an organisation's transition from a traditional IT operations or SysAdmin model to a mature DevSecOps culture.
- Expert-level knowledge of Amazon Web Services (AWS) and its core infrastructure, security, and management services.
- Hands-on experience building and managing infrastructure with Terraform in a production environment.
- Proficiency in using and administering GitHub, including creating and managing CI/CD workflows with GitHub Actions.
- A deep understanding of DevSecOps principles, "shift-left" security, CI/CD, and automation best practices.
- Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills, with a proven ability to build strong cross-functional relationships.
- A strategic product and service design mindset, with experience creating reusable patterns and delivering platform capabilities.