We are seeking an experienced Azure DevOps Engineer with a strong background in AWS deployments, Identity & Access Management (IAM), and automation to join our financial services client. The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in designing, implementing, and managing secure, scalable, and reliable CI/CD pipelines, as well as supporting IAM governance, access controls, and secure deployments across cloud environments.
This role requires someone who can operate in a regulated financial services environment, ensuring compliance, security, and resilience are embedded into all DevOps practices.
Key Responsibilities
This is an Inside IR35 contract role working via umbrella company and will require 2 days per week onsite in Manchester with the customer.
This role requires someone who can operate in a regulated financial services environment, ensuring compliance, security, and resilience are embedded into all DevOps practices.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for application deployments across Azure and AWS environments.
- Implement and manage Identity and Access Management (IAM) policies, roles, and permissions to ensure secure access and compliance with financial services standards.
- Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to deliver secure and automated deployment solutions.
- Ensure all deployments are highly available, resilient, and compliant with regulatory frameworks (e.g., PCI-DSS, ISO27001, SOC2).
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues in the build and release process.
- Implement monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions for cloud services and applications.
- Champion DevOps best practices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and automation to drive efficiency and consistency.
- Work closely with stakeholders to define and enforce least-privilege access models and secure onboarding processes.
- Support audits and compliance reporting by maintaining proper documentation and access records.
- Proven experience as a DevOps Engineer, Site Reliability Engineer, or similar role within a financial services or regulated environment.
- Strong expertise in Azure DevOps for CI/CD pipeline development and automation.
- Hands-on experience with AWS services including:
- IAM (users, roles, policies, permissions)
- EC2, S3, Lambda, ECS/EKS (deployment and scaling)
- CloudFormation or Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
- IAM (users, roles, policies, permissions)
- Deep knowledge of IAM best practices, access governance, and compliance standards.
- Experience with infrastructure automation tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or Pulumi.
- Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
- Familiarity with Kubernetes / container orchestration.
- Knowledge of monitoring and logging tools (CloudWatch, ELK stack, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent).
- Understanding of networking, security, and encryption in a cloud context.
- Experience working in regulated industries with a focus on compliance, security, and governance.
This is an Inside IR35 contract role working via umbrella company and will require 2 days per week onsite in Manchester with the customer.
