Role: DevOps Engineer
Location: Sheffield, UK
Contract Type GCP Cloud mandatory
In this role, you will: · Design, build, and maintain CI/CD pipelines for IAM components, policies, connectors, microservices, and integrations. · Enable automated testing, security scanning, and controlled deployments across DEV/TEST/PROD environments. · Implement continuous improvement to streamline IAM release processes. · Develop and maintain IaC (Terraform, Ansible for deploying IAM infrastructure, identity policies, directories, and supporting platforms. · Ensure consistent, repeatable environments and compliance with architectural standards. · Develop scripts and automation for account lifecycle operations, access provisioning, and system integrations. · Deploy IAM services or related microservices on Kubernetes, cloud-native platforms, and serverless environments. · Manage containerisation, service mesh integrations, certificates, and secrets for IAM workloads. · Embed security into the build and deployment process, including vulnerability scanning, secrets detection, and code quality checks. · Work with cybersecurity teams to ensure compliance with Zero Trust principles and IAM security policies. · Collaborate with IAM architects, security teams, and application owners on design and integration requirements. · Create and maintain documentation for pipelines, IaC, deployment patterns, and operational processes.
Key Skills & Experience
Technical Skills · Infrastructure as code (Terraform & GCP Provisioning) Terraform core, GCP Infra, Policy as code, develop the capability to manage, maintain and write policies, · Containerization & Kubernetes (GKE), Docker, Kubernetes, Helm / Kustomize, GKE Ops · CI/CD engineering, pipeline authoring, artifacts management, testing automation, deployment strategy · Data pipeline and DevOps (KAFKA / PubSub) – Kafka basics, schema registry, streaming infra and monitoring · Graph platform engineering, Neo4j basics, backups, recovery and DR GDS/APOC, observability · DevSecOps & platform security, security scanning, IAM and identity, network security, compliance · Release engineering and governance, release ops, change management, documentation · Regionalisation and compliance, regional deployments and failover, data residency, conditional access