Security Platform Engineer (DevSecOps) - SC (MOD/Defence)

Job Summary

Advertiser Salary / Rate Posted
Talent Locker £75,000
16th April 2026
Location Start Date
South East
Type Job Sector
permanent Defence

Security Platform Engineer (DevSecOps) - MOD/Defence Farnborough UK Security Clearance Required £70-75k Kubernetes, Splunk, Nessus. You'll own the security tooling across a live platform, not just monitor it. Working for a defence consultancy providing technical solutions to the MOD and Defence sectors, you will be working across a Kubernetes platform, responsible for deploying, running and improving the tools that provide visibility, detection and control. This is hands on and sits right between platform engineering and security, with a big focus on getting security embedded properly into how things are built and run. You'll spend your time securing Kubernetes environments, running and tuning Splunk for logging and threat detection, and managing Nessus to track and drive vulnerability remediation. A big part of the role is integrating security into CI/CD pipelines and automating as much as possible, whether that's through scripting or infrastructure as code. You'll also be working…

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