Manager, DevSecOps

Primary responsibilities / Key result areas

• Lead, manage, mentor, and develop a global DevSecOps engineering team, including performance management, career development, hiring, onboarding, and succession planning.
• Ensure DevSecOps engineers are effectively embedded into Agile development workstreams and provide strong support across CI/CD, cloud, platform, security, and application delivery activities.
• Facilitate collaboration between Development, Information Security, IT Operations, Infrastructure, Architecture, and Business teams to drive secure and reliable software delivery.
• Promote secure coding, shift-left security, security-by-design, and automated security controls across the software development lifecycle.
• Evaluate, implement, manage, and continuously improve DevSecOps and security tools, including SAST, DAST, vulnerability scanning, container security, secrets management, threat detection, and incident response tooling.
• Ensure compliance with applicable security, privacy, and control frameworks such as ISO 27001, SOC 2, NIST, and internal Information Security standards.
• Support audits by ensuring timely collection, validation, and submission of evidence for systems, tools, platforms, and processes under the team’s responsibility.
• Anticipate operational, security, and delivery risks; coordinate incident response, root cause analysis, corrective actions, and continuous improvement across environments.
• Define, track, and communicate DevSecOps metrics and KPIs to measure security posture, delivery effectiveness, operational reliability, team performance, and maturity improvement.
• Stay current with emerging DevSecOps tools, practices, and compliance standards.
• Qualifications & Experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information security, or a related field.
• Relevant certifications (e.g., CISSP, CISM, CompTIA Security+, Certified DevSecOps Professional) are highly desirable
• At least 12+ years of experience in the IT industry
• 7+ years in DevOps, security engineering, or a related role with at least 4 years in people management