DevOps Engineer (IAM - Identity Access Management)

GCS
Sheffield, South Yorkshire, United Kingdom
4 days ago
£550 – £570 pd

Salary

£550 – £570 pd

Job Type
Permanent
Work Pattern
Full-time
Work Location
On-site
Seniority
Mid
Education
Degree
Security Clearance
Required
Posted
11 May 2026 (4 days ago)

Benefits

25 days holiday Pension Private healthcare Equity Remote allowance

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.

To be successful in this role, you should meet the following requirements:

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

Soft Skills

Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting capabilities.

Ability to work collaboratively across security, engineering, and operations teams.

Excellent communication and documentation skills.

Experience working in Agile/Scrum environments.

Experience of Privileged Access Management and identity access management

Understanding and experience of technologies deployed at a large scale in a global IT enterprise

Experience of working in an Agile team - managing workload in Jira and engagements in Jira Service Desk

Ability to adapt and understand new technologies - being self-motivated to learn

Strong interpersonal, influencing, communication and report-writing skills

Ability to interact appropriately with users of various technical skill levels

Ability to work in a multi country, culturally diverse and time-zone separated role.GCS is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy

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