BBC Career Opportunities Senior Software Engineer (DevSecOps)

JOB TITLE: Senior Software Engineer DevSecOps
JOB BAND: D
CONTRACT TYPE: Permanent Full-time
DEPARTMENT: Media Technology Development Operations DevSecOps
LOCATION: UK wide - London Salford Cardiff Newcastle or Glasgow Hybrid (1 day per week in the office)
PROPOSED SALARY RANGE: 70000 - 80000 depending on relevant skills knowledge and experience. The expected salary range for this role reflects internal benchmarking and external market insights.
London Weighting: 5441 on top of base salary for London office only

Were happy to discuss flexible working. If youd like to please indicate your preference in the application - though theres no obligation to do so now. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Join Media Technologys Dev Operations team as a Senior Software Engineer DevSecOps. Youll operate and evolve the platforms and workflows that help engineering teams understand own and reduce security risk across applications and cloud services. This is a hands-on role spanning vulnerability management platform ownership software engineering integrations and automation with opportunities to apply emerging AI-assisted capabilities where they can improve security and engineering outcomes.

Dev Operations works across Media Technology to improve how engineering risk is understood and managed at scale. Youll help shape a growing security engineering capability combining platform ownership with software engineering to make vulnerability management more effective and easier for teams to adopt. Youll have room to influence technical direction build reusable patterns and explore practical uses of AI and automation in security operations.

• Operate and evolve security posture and vulnerability-management platforms including configuration access integrations data quality risk policies and reporting.
• Own the technical implementation of vulnerability-management workflows from prioritisation and assignment through to risk treatment resolution and reporting.
• Monitor platform health and effectiveness investigate data and integration issues and work with suppliers where product support or changes are required.
• Design build and operate integrations and automation that connect security findings with the technical and organisational context needed to make them actionable.
• Work with engineering teams and technical leaders to improve ownership prioritisation and risk-management outcomes turning successful approaches into reusable patterns.
• Maintain strong engineering standards through automated testing observability documentation technical review and operational support.
• Evaluate prototype and integrate AI-assisted capabilities where they can improve security analysis prioritisation remediation support or operational workflows.

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

• Hands-on experience operating and improving vulnerability-management application-security or other security platforms used by engineering teams.
• A strong understanding of the vulnerability-management lifecycle including prioritisation ownership risk treatment resolution and reporting.
• Strong software engineering experience building and operating production services integrations or automation using at least one modern programming language.
• Experience designing secure integrations and data flows across cloud environments using APIs Infrastructure as Code webhooks or event-driven patterns with attention to identity and access management least-privilege design secrets failure handling and operational monitoring.
• Strong technical judgement and communication skills with experience working across engineering teams to shape designs explain trade-offs and deliver practical outcomes.

DESIRABLE

• Experience working in DevSecOps application security security engineering or platform engineering.
• Experience building or operating shared technical capabilities used by multiple engineering teams.
• Experience adapting technical platforms to support different teams workflows and reporting needs.
• Experience integrating security engineering or operational data from multiple systems.
• Experience applying automation data or AI to improve engineering security or operational workflows.

If you can bring some of these skills and experience along with transferable strengths wed love to hear from you and encourage you to apply.

Before your start date you may need to disclose any unspent convictions or police charges in line with our Contracts of Employment policy. This allows us to discuss any support you may need and assess any risks. Failure to disclose may result in the withdrawal of your offer.