IAM Engineer - Banking - London - £450 per day MAX

IAM Security Engineer - Contract Opportunity

Location: London, onsite 4-5 days per week

Rate: £450 per day, inside IR35

Sector: Financial services environment

Contract: Initial 6-month contract, with potential to extend

An experienced IAM Security Engineer is required for an initial 6-month contract supporting a major financial services organisation. The role will focus on designing, implementing and improving identity and access management controls across public cloud environments, working closely with cloud, security, infrastructure and application teams to support secure cloud adoption at scale.

The Role

• Work with cross-functional cloud, security, infrastructure, service engineering and application teams to define and implement IAM roles, permissions and access policies.
• Design, build and enhance security controls and tooling to ensure IAM deployments across public cloud environments meet internal standards and security best practice.
• Create automation, reusable libraries and self-service capabilities that enable development teams to provision IAM identities and permissions securely.
• Deliver IAM solutions through CI/CD pipelines, including automated testing, validation and deployment.

Key Experience

• At least 3 years' hands-on experience working with cloud-native services in AWS or GCP.
• Strong background designing and implementing enterprise security solutions within financial services, or another large, complex and highly regulated environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to work effectively across both technical and business teams.
• Proactive, self-starting approach with the ability to work independently, manage competing priorities and take ownership of project deliverables.
• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, AWS Certified Security - Specialty or Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer would be advantageous.

Technical Skills

• Infrastructure as code experience with Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Programming experience in Python, Go or Java.
• Experience with unit testing frameworks such as Behave, pytest or JUnit.
• Ability to develop and secure SOAP and REST-based web service APIs.
• Strong understanding of DevOps, Agile delivery, automated testing and CI/CD pipelines.

Apply

If you are an IAM Security Engineer with strong public cloud security experience and are available for a London-based contract, please apply with your latest CV for immediate consideration.

This temporary contract is inside IR35 and will require working under the direction of the client delivery manager as part of a multi-disciplinary team. The successful candidate will follow established delivery processes and working practices.

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Please note that no terminology in this advert is intended to discriminate on the grounds of a person's gender, marital status, race, religion, colour, age, disability or sexual orientation. Every candidate will be assessed only in accordance with their merits, qualifications and ability to perform the duties of the job.

Should the role require the successful candidate to undergo and be eligible for UK Security Vetting. Clearance sponsorship will be provided where required. Due to the nature of the work, candidates should meet the relevant residency requirements. If applicable, Reserved Post nationality restrictions will be confirmed by the client. Damia is committed to inclusive recruitment and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds.

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