5 hours ago
London, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate secure development and deployment infrastructure for autonomy and defence programmes.
- Develop and maintain secure, repeatable CI/CD pipelines for autonomy and mission software.
- Integrate security controls, testing, evidence, and assurance throughout the software development lifecycle.
- Apply UK MOD Secure by Design principles and help engineering teams meet cyber security and technical assurance responsibilities.
- Design and maintain development and deployment environments across cloud, on-premises, laboratory, simulation, hardware-in-the-loop, and operational platforms.
- Enable secure software development and deployment across different security classifications and segmented environments.
- Automate static analysis, dependency scanning, container scanning, secrets detection, software composition analysis, vulnerability management, and policy enforcement.
- Champion a DevSecOps culture focused on security, reliability, deployability, and operational performance.
Requirements
- BS or MS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Cyber Security, Electrical Engineering, Systems Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, platform engineering, site reliability engineering, software engineering, or a related technical discipline.
- Significant experience delivering software or digital capabilities within UK defence or another highly regulated national security environment.
- Strong understanding of UK Ministry of Defence and NATO DevSecOps and Secure by Design approaches.
- Experience applying MOD security policies, security assurance processes, and technical security requirements to software-intensive defence programmes.
- Experience developing and operating CI/CD pipelines with source control, build, test, artefact management, and deployment technologies.
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, containerisation, and infrastructure automation.
- Experience with Git, GitLab or GitHub, or equivalent tooling.
- Experience supporting DevSecOps, software delivery, or digital engineering across NATO nations or multinational defence programmes is desirable.
- Understanding of DevSecOps approaches, security frameworks, and software assurance practices used by NATO nations, particularly the United States and European NATO partners, is desirable.
About Shield AI
Shield AI builds autonomous systems for military and national security customers, combining its Hivemind autonomy software with V-BAT and X-BAT unmanned aircraft and Aechelon simulation technologies. The privately held company sells hardware, software, and related services to U.S. and allied defense agencies. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in San Diego, it operates across the U.S., Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific, and its technology is used in operational deployments.