Senior DevSecOps Engineer (Docker Compose to Kubernetes) for NATO

Would you like to join the leading international intergovernmental organization

We are looking for a Senior DevSecOps contractor to support the modernization of the application deployment and delivery landscape. This is a highly hands-on role: the selected contractors must have extensive practical experience and be able to contribute from day 1 with minimal ramp-up.

The main focus will be migrating an existing application from Docker Compose to Kubernetes workloads running on k3s.

This is a delivery-focused role. We are looking for engineers who can assess the current setup quickly propose pragmatic improvements and implement them directly.

Important: we will only consider candidates whose primary professional experience is as a DevSecOps Engineer. Profiles coming mainly from software development infrastructure system administration or security roles with only partial DevSecOps exposure will not be considered.

Key responsibilities:

• Migrate containerized applications from Docker Compose to Kubernetes (k3s).

• Design build and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps and GitLab CI/CD or Jenkins.

• Integrate security controls into the delivery process including static code analysis dependency scanning container image scanning secrets detection image signing vulnerability management and release gates.

• Support deployment automation environment promotion rollback traceability and release reliability.

• Work closely with development infrastructure and security teams to improve automation resilience and secure delivery practices.

• Troubleshoot and resolve build deployment and runtime issues across CI/CD and Kubernetes

• environments.

• Document implemented solutions and contribute to good DevSecOps practices across the team.

Essential Qualifications & Experience:

• 6 years of professional experience in DevSecOps Platform Engineering or closely related roles with DevSecOps as the main professional focus.

• Strong hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes; experience with k3s is highly desirable.

• Proven experience transitioning workloads from Docker Compose to Kubernetes.

• Strong practical experience implementing CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps plus GitLab CI/CD or Jenkins.

• Strong hands-on experience with DevSecOps and software supply chain security practices including SAST dependency scanning container/image scanning secrets handling and image signing.

• Good understanding of cloud or hybrid infrastructure Linux environments and automation/scripting.

• Experience with Git-based workflows Agile/Scrum delivery and collaboration tools such as Azure DevOps GitLab and Jira.

• Strong troubleshooting communication and documentation skills.

• Good spoken and written English.

If youve read the description and feel this role is a great match wed love to hear from you! Click Apply for this job to be directed to a brief questionnaire. It should only take a few moments to complete and well be in touch promptly if your experience aligns with our needs.