DevSecOps Engineer AI-First

📋 Job Overview

ClearRoute is an engineering consultancy bridging Quality Engineering, Cloud Platforms and Developer Experience. We help enterprises reliably bring high-impact digital products to market faster, cheaper, and safer, working with technology leaders facing complex business challenges.

🏢 About ClearRoute

We take as much pride in our people, culture and work-life balance as we do in making better software. We’re not just making better software. We’re making the making of software better. Collaborative, entrepreneurial and dedicated to problem solving, we bring the step change our customer need to sustain innovation. Our values challenge us to do the best we can for ClearRoute, our customers and most importantly our team. This is an opportunity for you to build the organisation from the ground up, use your voice to drive change and help transform organisations and problem domains.

🎯 The Role

We are hiring a DevSecOps Engineer to join our AI-first Developer Platform team. The team owns the CI/CD pipelines that every engineer here ships through. We also build our own products on top of GitHub, Artifactory, and a Kubernetes-hosted marketplace of build runners. This is a hands-on build role in a regulated environment. You will build working software, not documents. You will own products, tools, services and security from end to end, and what you ship reaches delivery teams the same week. We assess evidence over years. Show us what you have built, what you measured, and a decision the measurement changed.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Build working prototypes, and harden the ones that prove their value
• Put agents to work on the toolchain, for example remediation at scale, pipeline upgrades, scanner triage and credential rotation
• Design how autonomous agents are allowed to act, including identity, scoping, audit trail and a stop control
• Create new products on our platform, such as self-serve dashboards, MCP servers, skills and developer tooling
• Make the secure, correct path the default in the pipeline, so developers do not have to do more, earlier
• Run time-boxed experiments, each with a decide-or-kill date and a written verdict
• Make the estate observable, through monitoring, telemetry, logging, tracing and alerting
• Talk to delivery teams directly, and bring back findings that change the roadmap
• Help run the platform, using zero-downtime practices that are defined in code and tested before release

📌 Required Qualifications

• 6 to 9 years of experience
• Test-driven and behaviour-driven development as your default way of working, including for pipelines, infrastructure and agents
• Practical DevSecOps, where teams own their pipelines and security is part of building
• Trunk-based development, with short-lived branches. Pairing as a normal way of working. Infrastructure as code, reviewed and tested as code
• Measuring a problem first, then testing each solution against that measurement. Real experience with observability, including monitoring, telemetry, logging, tracing and alerting
• Experience driving delivery metrics toward elite DORA performance, and understanding that the system matters more than the number
• Hands-on use of AI tools such as Claude and GitHub Copilot, and interest in how engineering changes in an AI-first world
• Some experience with CI/CD platforms, patterns and practices, and genuine interest in where they are going next

⭐ Desirable Experience

• Experience with C#, Python or TypeScript
• Experience with Terraform, AWS or Azure. Experience with GitHub, Azure DevOps or Artifactory
• Product instinct: you ask who the user is and what they will adopt before you ask what is technically interesting
• Experience teaching others through pairing, writing or speaking internally

🎁 Benefits

Real flexibility, in practice. We trust you to perform at your best and still have a life outside of work, with genuine hybrid working, a home office budget, an open feedback culture where your voice shapes decisions, and time off when life needs it (birthday included).

When ClearRoute wins, you win. We offer profit share so success is shared, meaningful recognition for great work, and benefits that look after you and your family, including private healthcare, competitive salary benchmarking, and a confidential employee assistance program covering counselling, mental health support, and financial wellbeing.

A community you'll genuinely want to be part of. Interest based communities like running and book clubs, Women in Tech group, monthly socials, and cross regional events bring people together across the company. An inclusive, collaborative culture where you don't need to conform to succeed, where people support one another and feel comfortable being themselves.

Where meaningful work meets real growth. You will tackle complex, real world problems at the forefront of platform engineering, AI, security, and scalable systems. Your growth is supported by learning budgets, Udemy access, a clear career framework, internal mobility, and thought leadership opportunities that take your impact beyond ClearRoute.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

We welcome applications from people who require flexibility and will be happy to discuss needs on an individual basis. We are committed to fostering a culture where all team members feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work. We celebrate individuality and our differences and understand that some differences may mean that you require changes made to the interview process.