Overview
Nortal's Applied Defence R&D serves as an innovation engine, transforming complex defence challenges into validated, deployable solutions. By combining cyber resilience, AI, data science, embedded security, and digital engineering, we deliver mission-ready prototypes and architectures. Partnering with governments, armed forces, industry, and academia, we create sovereign IP, dual-use technologies, and NATO/EU-aligned innovations that reduce risk and accelerate capability delivery.
We are looking for a Security DevOps Engineer to design and run secure development and deployment environments for our R&D projects. You will embed security into CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure, and the software supply chain across cloud, on-premises, and lab environments.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain secure CI/CD pipelines and development environments
- Integrate automated security controls into build, test, release, and deployment workflows
- Implement infrastructure-as-code and secure, repeatable deployment patterns
- Manage secrets, certificates, credentials, and access controls across environments
- Integrate vulnerability scanning, container scanning, and related security tooling
- Support software supply-chain security, SBOM generation, and provenance controls
- Harden operating systems, containers, orchestration platforms, and cloud services
- Prepare technical sections for R&D deliverables and security documentation
Methods & Approaches
- DevSecOps and secure software development lifecycle practices
- Infrastructure as code and policy-as-code approaches
- Continuous vulnerability management and automated security testing
- Secure software supply-chain and artefact-management practices
Deliverables
- Secure and automated development, test, and deployment pipelines
- Infrastructure-as-code, hardening baselines, and operational documentation
- Automated security checks, vulnerability reports, and SBOMs
- Contributions to R&D project deliverables and integration reports
Skills & Experience
- Background in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud engineering, or cybersecurity engineering
- Hands-on experience with CI/CD platforms, containers, orchestration, and infrastructure-as-code
- Experience integrating security tooling such as SAST, DAST, SCA, or vulnerability management
- Understanding of Linux, networking, identity and access management, and system hardening
- Experience with cloud, hybrid, on-premises, or isolated development environments
- Relevant cloud, DevOps, Kubernetes, or security certifications are a plus
- Willingness to complete a government security clearance process
Why Nortal?
- We hire people not only for their skills but also for cultural add. We live by our values: commit to delivering value and results, take ownership, empower yourself and others, and own your future and growth. Besides our professionalism, we like to spice things up with good humour.
- We care about your growth & development. At Nortal, we support constant improvement and knowledge sharing.
- We prioritise your health & well-being by providing a flexible package for health insurance and sports initiatives.
- We support your work-life balance and provide flexible working hours.
- You can choose whether to work from the office or remotely within Estonia.
Salary range:
€4600-6500 gross/monthly (full-time).Final compensation will depend on factors such as relevant experience, role seniority, and skill set.
About Nortal
For over 25 years, we’ve been shaping digital transformation, delivering complex solutions for global enterprises and public sector organisations. Today, we are at the forefront of an AI-driven transformation era, helping organisations turn data into real business value. By combining deep domain expertise with data and AI, we design solutions that create immediate impact while scaling for the future.
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