Security Engineer IAM

A leading Professional Services company is seeking a Security Engineer IAM on a contract basis to work on an exciting project with a financial services client.

You will be required to work onsite in London 4-5 days a week. Please DO NOT apply unless you can commit to this.

The Security Engineer IAM must have the following skills:

* Minimum of 3 years of hands-on experience working with cloud-native services in AWS or GCP.

* Experience in the design and implementation of enterprise security solutions in Financial Services or a large complex and/or global environment

* Highly motivated self-starter with excellent interpersonal and communication skills

* Ability to work independently, multi-task, and take ownership of various parts of a project or initiative.

* Relevant certifications such as CISSP, AWS Certified Security Specialty, Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer are desirable

* Experience with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools: Terraform and CloudFormation

* Proficiency in Python, Go or Java

* Proficiency in unit testing frameworks such as Behave, pytest or Junit

* Proficiency in developing and securing SOAP and REST based web service APIs

* Experience in DevOps and agile methodologies and automated solution delivery and testing through CI/CD pipelines

The Role:

* Collaborate with cross-functional cloud teams including security, infrastructure, service engineering and business application teams to define and implement IAM roles and policies required to build, support and consume services in public cloud.

* Define and develop security controls and tools to ensure IAM implementation in public cloud environments are compliant with cloud security standards and policies.

* Build automation and libraries to enable developers to create IAM identities and permissions through self-service.

* Deliver IAM solutions through CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and validation
Only candidates based in UK and eligible to work in UK are allowed