DevSecOps Capability Manager

As our DevSecOps Capability Manager, you’ll lead and scale Skipton’s DevSecOps capability to enable fast, safe and compliant software delivery across our product and platform teams. You will be accountable for embedding securebydesign principles, modern automation practices, and policyascode into our CI/CD ecosystem, ensuring that our engineering teams can deliver highquality change with confidence. 

You will drive improvements in lead time, deployment frequency, change failure rate and system reliability, all measured through our Engineering Scorecard. This role blends technical strategy, leadership, governance and handson capability development to strengthen our engineering foundations and support delivery of the Society’s Corporate Plan. 

What will you be doing? 

Value, Flow & Quality 

• Owning lead time for changes and deploymentfrequency outcomes across shared pipelines and platforms. 

• Publishing DORA and flow metrics monthly, using them to drive targeted improvements. 

• Removing delivery bottlenecks through automation and policyascode, including trunkbased development, automated approvals for lowrisk changes, canary/bluegreen deployment and autorollback. 

• Triggering “scorecard → investment” actions when performance thresholds are breached to restore flow, quality and reliability. 

Leadership & Capability Development 

• Leading, coaching and developing a team of 3–5 DevSecOps Engineers. 

• Defining and maintaining DevSecOps standards, patterns and best practices across engineering teams. 

• Building a highperforming engineering culture focused on security, automation and continuous improvement. 

Strategy, Governance & Technical Direction 

• Setting the strategy for DevSecOps capabilities, including pipeline standardisation and security automation. 

• Establishing governance for secure CI/CD, infrastructureascode and cloud delivery. 

• Defining and enforcing Observability Minimum Standards including tracing, SLOs, releaselinked annotations and dashboards. 

• Mandating securityinthepipeline, including secrets protection, SAST/SCA/DAST, IaC scanning and WAF coverage for external apps. 

• Governing Golden Path (ProdOS