Lead DevSecOps Engineer

In AECOMs AI Engineering team your work will help deliver technology that directly shapes the physical world around us. We build AI-driven products that change how infrastructure and buildings are designed and engineered reducing waste cutting CO₂ and making the built environment more efficient and sustainable. This role ensures those products and the platforms behind them are reliable scalable and secure by design.

With our AI Engineering team weve created a unique setup: a lean highly technical team with the speed and ownership of a start up backed by the scale resources and domain expertise of one of the worlds leading engineering firms. 

There has never been a better time to be at AECOM. We are leading the industrys AI transformation and with our people and technology we deliver excellence and innovate with impact.

We invite you to bring your bold ideas and big dreams to solve the worlds most complex challenges. Were one global team driven by our common purpose to deliver a better world. Join us.

What Youll Do

As part of our AI Engineering team you will lead the DevSecOps capabilities that help engineers build release and operate services across our multi-cloud platform. You will shape CI/CD Infrastructure as Code observability reliability cloud governance and secure engineering across Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP). You will also manage cloud-vendor service reviews security advisories escalations and roadmap discussions.

• Evolve CI/CD pipelines and reusable workflows that enable fast reliable and repeatable testing and deployment with automated quality and security controls
• Build observability and operational readiness through monitoring logging tracing runbooks and incident response improving the reliability and performance of production services
• Define and track service reliability objectives and recovery requirements for production services using incident reviews to drive continuous improvement.
• Embed proportionate security into engineering workflows and cloud environments including platform security reviews threat modelling access and secrets management automated scanning and vulnerability remediation
• Monitor cloud security posture across Azure and GCP helping teams prioritise misconfigurations vulnerabilities and remediation work according to risk
• Manage technical and service relationships with Microsoft Google Cloud and other critical vendors leading service reviews security advisory responses escalations and roadmap and cost discussions
• Partner with platform product and AI/ML engineers on architecture decisions mentor colleagues and make clear trade-offs across developer experience reliability performance cost and security

Qualifications :

Must-Have Qualifications

• Demonstrated hands-on experience across DevOps SRE platform engineering DevSecOps or related roles with experience guiding technical decisions or mentoring colleagues
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and release automation ideally with GitHub Actions or similar tooling
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code and cloud platform automation using Terraform
• Demonstrated ownership of production reliability including observability service-level objectives incident management post-incident reviews capacity planning and disaster-recovery testing.
• Practical experience carrying out security reviews and implementing controls across identity secrets management software supply chains and vulnerability management
• Experience working directly with cloud providers or technology vendors ideally including Microsoft or Google Cloud on service reviews escalations or roadmap discussions
• Practical experience monitoring and optimising cloud expenditure across large Azure or GCP environments.

Preferred Skills

• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service cloud capabilities
• Experience applying image scanning artefact signing or software provenance controls to containerised workloads
• Familiarity with cloud security posture management policy-as-code security monitoring or compliance automation
• Experience supporting AI/ML workloads and SaaS platforms in production

Additional Information :

Our Hiring Process

• 25-minute screening call
• Take-home challenge: A hands-on task to assess your problem-solving and technical skills
• Combined technical and cultural interview (in-person)
  • Technical Interview: 1-hour with 2 of our engineers to discuss your solution to the take-home challenge
  • Culture fit: 30-minute meeting with our leadership team

Why Join Us

• Work on real-world problems where AI creates measurable impact.
• Be part of a team where your work matters and your ideas become real.
• Collaborate with sharp driven colleagues in a culture of trust ownership and high standards.
• Contribute to making the built environment smarter and more sustainable.

At AECOM we are committed to maintaining a secure and trustworthy recruitment process and take any fraudulent hiring activity seriously. To support this commitment all newly hired employees are required to attend an in-person Day 1 onboarding at an AECOM office location as a condition of employment.

About AECOM

AECOM is proud to offer comprehensive benefits to meet the diverse needs of our employees. Depending on your employment status AECOM benefits may include medical dental vision life AD&D disability benefits paid time off leaves of absences voluntary benefits perks flexible work options well-being resources employee assistance program business travel insurance service recognition awards retirement savings plan and employee stock purchase plan.

AECOM is the global infrastructure leader committed to delivering a better world. As a trusted professional services firm powered by deep technical abilities we solve our clients complex challenges in water environment energy transportation and buildings. Our teams partner with public- and private-sector clients to create innovative sustainable and resilient solutions throughout the project lifecycle from advisory planning design and engineering to program and construction management. AECOM is a Fortune 500 firm that had revenue of $16.1 billion in fiscal year 2025. Learn more at .

What makes AECOM a great place to work 

You will be part of a global team that champions your growth and career ambitions. Work on groundbreaking projectsboth in your local community and on a global scalethat are transforming our industry and shaping the future. With cutting-edge technology and a network of experts youll have the resources to make a real impact. Our award-winning training and development programs are designed to expand your technical expertise and leadership skills helping you build the career youve always envisioned. Here youll find a welcoming workplace built on respect collaboration and communitywhere you have the freedom to grow in a world of opportunity. 

We are a Disability Confident Employer and will offer an interview to applicants who have a disability or long-term condition who meet the minimum/essential criteria for the role. Please let us know using this email address   if you would like to apply through the Disability Confident Interview Scheme.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time