DevSecOps Architect / Technical Lead

Andersen is hiring a DevSecOps Architect / Technical Lead for a project modernizing digital banking architecture and enhancing security, scalability, and platform reliability. The customer is a financial services organization providing banking products and digital solutions for individual and business clients. The company operates through an established service network and online platforms and is part of a larger international financial group, supporting ongoing development of its services for a broad client base. The project is focused on defining a structured architecture roadmap for a large-scale digital banking transformation program. It includes target-state architecture, platform modernization, API governance, security, data and analytics, system decoupling, and phased migration of business capabilities to reduce system dependencies and accelerate future digital development. The role requires a one-week on-site onboarding with the client in Slovenia. Travel and accommodation expenses are fully covered by the company. Candidates must be able and willing to travel to Slovenia for the onboarding.

Responsibilities: - Translating the DevSecOps master plan into a practical implementation roadmap. - Defining reusable CI/CD, security and release-management standards. - Supporting the transition from Bitbucket/Jenkins to Azure Repos and Azure Pipelines. - Implementing security scanning and release gates in CI/CD pipelines. - Configuring security controls for AKS, container images, identities and secrets. - Establishing artifact signing, SBOM generation and secure promotion processes. - Integrating platform security events with the bank’s monitoring and SIEM solutions. - Defining vulnerability-management, audit-evidence and incident-response processes. - Providing technical leadership, recommendations and knowledge transfer to delivery teams. - Participating directly in configuration, integration and troubleshooting activities.

Requirements: - Experience in DevSecOps, cloud security or platform security for 5+ years. - Proven experience designing and driving DevSecOps processes, architecture, or engineering standards across multiple teams, not only implementing predefined solutions within a single project. - Experience translating high-level security or DevSecOps strategy into a practical technical roadmap, architecture decisions, standards, and implementation guidance. - Experience owning technical decisions and driving the adoption of DevSecOps practices across engineering teams. - Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure. - Hands-on experience implementing security controls and gates across CI/CD, including several of the following: SAST, SCA, DAST, secret scanning, IaC scanning, and container scanning. - Practical experience with Kubernetes and container security, preferably AKS. - Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform. - Experience with identity, secrets, and certificate management. - Understanding of software supply-chain security practices such as SBOM, artifact signing, provenance, and secure artifact promotion. - Ability to combine architecture and technical leadership with hands-on implementation and troubleshooting. - Experience mentoring or technically guiding engineers and working across development, platform, security, and architecture teams. - Level of English – from Upper-Intermediate and above.

Nice to have: - Experience in banking, financial services, or another regulated industry. - Experience with Jenkins and Bitbucket, including migration to Azure DevOps. - Experience with Azure security services such as Key Vault, Azure Container Registry, Defender for Cloud / Containers, and Microsoft Sentinel. - Hands-on experience with security tools such as SonarQube, Sonatype, Gitleaks, Checkov, OWASP ZAP, DefectDojo, or similar. - Experience with software supply-chain security, including SBOM generation, artifact signing, provenance, and secure artifact promotion. - Experience with vulnerability-management and SIEM solutions. - Experience with policy-as-code and Kubernetes security controls such as Azure Policy, OPA, Gatekeeper, or other admission controls. - Understanding of DORA, audit traceability, segregation of duties, and security requirements in regulated environments.

Compensation: 5900–10000 EUR per month.