DevSecOps Lead

Job Description

Position: Full-Time

About Us:

GlobalDrum enables brands to own, understand, and monetise their most valuable social audiences.

Using live first-party behavioral data, brands have the autonomy to operate diversified business models on demand

We are evolving our unique next-generation B2B2C Platform as a Service (PaaS) that operates on a globally distributed cloud infrastructure incorporating a scalable, event-driven architecture using the latest AI and data techniques to evolve an entire sector.

Located in London, Dubai and New York, the Company is at the centre of reshaping how global brands will evolve in a sector valued at $276Bn in 2025 representing 30% of all digital ad spending. If this seems too ambitious for you, then don't apply.

Job Description:

Beyond managing the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) cloud deployments, you will own software user access and office infrastructure management, ensuring our Dubai-based engineering team and multi-region offices operate smoothly and securely. You will work within a fast-paced environment, seamlessly integrating security and infrastructure tasks into our rapid development sprints.

Key Responsibilities:

• Cloud Environments: Contribute to the design and implementation of real-time, distributed, high availability, scalable, event-driven solutions, leveraging services like Lambda, Kinesis, DynamoDB, ECS/EKS, etc.
• Provision, and maintain highly available and secure cloud infrastructure across AWS and GCP using Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Establish and enforce comprehensive Information Security policies, managing vulnerability scanning and orchestrating external Penetration Testing.
• Manage internal corporate IT, including software user access provisioning, identity management, and physical office infrastructure setup and maintenance.
• Build, optimize, and secure automated CI/CD pipelines to support rapid, AI-assisted development lifecycles.
• Operational Support for API and MCP interfaces: Contribute to the Design and development of published external APIs and Model Context Protocol (MCP) interfaces that are reliable, scalable, well-documented, and meet the needs of our business partners.
• Monitoring & Security: Establish comprehensive logging, monitoring, and alerting systems, and ensure the platform adheres to high security and compliance standards.

Required Experience and Skills:

• 7+ years of progressive experience in software development, with at least 3 years in a Lead Dev/Ops or Technical Lead role.
• Demonstrable success in developing and launching a B2B2C Platform as a Service that relies on published, high-traffic external APIs.
• Proven domain knowledge in at least two of the following areas: social media, advertising, eCommerce, or news.
• Extensive experience of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles, specifically using Terraform in production environments with geographically distributed cloud infrastructure for resilience and data sovereignty.
• Mastery of Agile methods and building, maintaining, and optimizing sophisticated CI/CD pipelines.
• Expertise in containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) and infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, CloudFormation).

Preferred Qualifications:

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• Experience with microservices architecture and service mesh technologies.
• Familiarity with data streaming technologies like Kafka or Kinesis.
• A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field.

What You'll Gain:

• Competitive salary and performance-based bonuses
• Flexible remote/hybrid work options
• Stock options
• A key role within an exciting, mission-driven team, with unlimited growth opportunities.