Devsecops Lead

**Company description**:
**Location: Basingstoke (hybrid working 2 office days per week)**

**Employment Type: Permanent, full time**

**Additional Benefits: Annual Bonus + Cash-Car Allowance + Private Medical Insurance**

Thought The AA only provide roadside assistance? Think again.

For over 100 years, we’ve continued to evolve and adapt. Today, as the nation’s number one motoring organisation, we offer a range of excellent products and services to millions of customers from roadside assistance to home and motor insurance as well as providing the latest driving technologies. As we continue to expand, diversify, and modernise, joining us as a **DevSecOps Lead**, you’ll play a key part to our success and join us on this exciting motoring journey.

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**This is the job**:
Joining The AA as a DevSecOps Lead, you’ll be responsible for the delivery of all DevSecOps initiatives and will closely collaborate with skilled software engineers, architects, and product teams to design and build foundational toolsets and capabilities that allow our teams to quickly bring new features to market.

You’ll also own, design, and implement the DevSecOps Strategy and Patterns across the teams within our Digital function. Within the role, you will line manage a medium sized team of offshore partner resources and permanent team members as well as working cross-functionally within the wider business.

**What will I be doing?**:

- Work closely with the solution architects, developers and product teams to drive the design and development of high-quality technical solution deployments of DevSecOps principles (incl. production, test and dev environments)
- Establish a governance process around Security of the estate and Cloud cost utilization
- Provide quantified delivery estimates for assigned changes & projects. This will include challenging estimates provided by external development partners. Manages demand as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
- Manage all assigned DevOps projects or continuous improvement activities within change initiatives, projects, or programme to fully meet the defined functional and non-functional requirements within budget and timescale
- “Hands on” development and peer reviews as required, exercising troubleshooting and methodical diagnostic skills to resolve issues. On occasion, you may be expected to provide an ‘out of hours’ service for business-critical issues
- Review requirements, functional specifications, architectural designs and testing strategies. Recommends alternative technical solutions to meet DevSecOps requirements more efficiently, ensuring greater standardisation and reusability. Recognizes system deficiencies and implements effective solutions

**What do I need?**:
**We love tech**
- Strong DevOps and Security background utilising various Cloud platforms, AWS in particular
- Demonstrable Technical Manager with the ability to deliver on DevSecOps strategies and processes
- Thorough understanding of Version control solutions, specifically Git/GitHub/Azure Repos
- CI/CD tooling experience i.e., AWS Suite - CodeBuild, Codepipelines, CodeDeploy, Azure DevOps, Azure Pipelines
- Containerisation orchestration, specifically, ECS and Kubernetes

**but more about you**
- A people leader, able to lead technical teams on wider business objectives/goals
- Strong communicator and collaborator with the ability to confidently discuss/present to varying stakeholder levels
- Broader knowledge and understanding of wider IT Teams i.e., IT Operations, Development, and IT Service

**Additional Information**:
We’re always looking to recognise and reward our employees for the work they do. As a valued member of The AA, you will join and learn within a team that’s as driven as they are supportive and have access to a range of benefits including:

- Free AA breakdown membership from day one, 50% discount for family and friends in the first year plus discounts on other AA products
- 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays + the option to buy additional annual leave
- Dedicated Employee Assistance Programme and a 24/7 remote GP service for you and your family
- Pension scheme available up to 7% contribution
- Exclusive EV discount scheme
- Diverse learning and development opportunities to support you to progress in your career
- Access to employee inclusivity networks
- Dental and Critical Illness Insurance cover accessible for all AA colleagues

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