Devops Engineer – IAM NEW

Sheffield, Yorkshire
Middleware Systems

Job Profile – DevOps Engineer

Location: Sheffield, UK (Hybrid – 2 days weekly from office)

Department: Identity and Access Management (IAM)

HSBC Role Overview

The DevOps Engineer will play a key role in delivering and operating enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) capabilities. This role is responsible for automating deployment, configuration, and life cycle management of IAM platforms and integrations. The engineer will build and maintain CI/CD pipelines, implement infrastructure as code, and ensure secure, scalable, and reliable IAM services across the organisation.

The position works closely with IAM architects, security engineers, platform teams, and application owners to support and deploy both cloud and on-prem IAM solutions.

HSBC are undergoing a transformation of its Identity and Access Management practices including the delivery of a set of net new tools to overhaul how IAM is carried out in the industry. We are seeking experienced and dynamic DevOps Engineers who have a good understanding of cloud platforms and Identity Management including AWS, GCP and Azure, with a successful track record of working in complex global organisations at fast pace. The role will report to the Lead Architects and be part of a dynamic and highly skilled team.

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 life cycle 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.