DevSecOps Engineer (Remote)

Spektrum supports apex purchasers (NATO UN EU and National Government and Defence) and their Tier 1 supplier ecosystem with a wide range of specialist services. We provide our clients with professional services specialised aerospace and defence sales delivery and operational subject matter expertise. We are looking for personnel to join our team and support key client projects.

Who we are supporting

Allied Command Transformation (ACT) is NATOs leading agent for change: driving facilitating and advocating the continuous improvement of Alliance capabilities to maintain and enhance the military relevance and effectiveness of the Alliance. The main objectives of ACT are: providing appropriate support to NATO missions and operations; leading NATO military transformation; and improving relationships interaction and practical cooperation with partners nations and international organisations. ACT therefore leads Alliance concept development capability development training and lessons-learned initiatives and provides unfettered military support to policy development within NATO.

The program

Capability Development & Management Support (CDMS)

DCOS Capability Development (CAPDEV) acts as the Supreme Allied Commander Transformations Director for guidance direction and coordination of the activities and resources of the Capability Development Directorate.

The Requirements Division will execute all tasks and activities needed to support requirements management for NATO capabilities

The Capability Requirements (CR) Branch will develop the Capability Requirements Brief and recommended courses of action to resolve issues through the life cycle management of requirements using matrixed cross-functional project-specific Requirements Management teams.

The Requirements Forward Branch (Mons) is responsible for conducting requirements development and management representation and engagement-related functions in Europe.

The Capability Division coordinates the development of capabilities from capability planning through acceptance and then disposal with management entities NATO Headquarters staff and the NATO Governance Structure

The Capability Forward Branch (Mons) coordinates with ACO NCIA NSPA NATO HQ territorial Host Nations and NATO Centres of Excellence (COEs) to support the development of capabilities.

Strategic Plans and Policy (SPP) supports Allied Command Transformation in formalizing military advice to shape future military strategy political guidance and other policy documents supporting NATOs strategic objectives.

Role Duties and Responsibilities
Deploy and operate containerized services using orchestration frameworks to ensure scalability and resilience.
Automate infrastructure through Infrastructure as Code (IaC) to provide consistent and repeatable environments.
Deploy and monitor workloads in cloud environments (AWS Azure Google Cloud VMware OpenStack).
Implement site reliability engineering (SRE) and observability practices to ensure resilience monitoring logging metrics and distributed tracing.
Support high-throughput and service-oriented architectures ensuring resilient and scalable deployments.
Deliver incremental capabilities in Agile and DevSecOps environments following frameworks such as Scrum SAFe or Kanban.
Design and manage secure networking and service meshes (TLS Istio Linkerd API gateways) to ensure encrypted and reliable service-to-service communication.
Apply zero-trust principles and compliance automation to enforce security policies and validate system compliance.
Manage identity and access using secure methods for secrets tokens certificates and least-privilege access control.

Essential Skills and Experience

Minimum 4 years of experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker Kubernetes OpenShift).
Minimum 4 years of experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and security validation (Jenkins GitLab GitHub Actions PyTest Selenium SAST/DAST).
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Ansible Helm Pulumi).
Experience deploying and securing workloads in hybrid/public cloud environments (AWS Azure Google Cloud VMware OpenStack).
Experience implementing site reliability engineering and observability practices (Prometheus Grafana ELK/Loki OpenTelemetry).
Experience implementing scalable resilient high-throughput systems and serviceoriented architectures (SOA distributed systems performance tuning).
Experience delivering capabilities in Agile/DevSecOps environments (Scrum SAFe Kanban).
Experience designing and managing secure networking and service mesh (TLS Istio Linkerd API gateways).
Experience applying zero-trust principles and compliance automation (OPA Kyverno SBOM CIS benchmarks).
Experience managing secrets and access policies using modern IAM solutions (Vault AWS KMS Azure Key Vault RBAC/ABAC).

Desirable Skills and Experience
Experience in developing and adapting a DevSecOps platform to allow Agile and Innovative development in a NATO or National defense institution

Education
Relevant Degree in Computer Science

Language Proficiency
Advanced Proficiency in English

Working Location
Remote

Working Policy
Remote

Contract Duration
January 2026 December 2030