Security Engineer IAM

TELSTRA Associates; City Of London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

TELSTRA Associates is seeking a Security Engineer IAM on a contract basis to work with a financial services client on enterprise IAM projects.

The role focuses on designing and implementing IAM in public clouds (AWS/GCP), building automation, and delivering secure solutions via CI/CD pipelines. Strong scripting, security certifications, and experience with IaC are highly valued.

Qualifications

• 3+ years hands-on cloud IAM in AWS or GCP.
• Security design experience in financial services or large global environments.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Ability to work independently and own project parts.
• Certifications in security are desirable.
• IaC experience with Terraform and CloudFormation.
• Proficiency in Python, Go or Java.
• Unit testing in Behave, pytest or JUnit.
• Experience developing and securing SOAP/REST APIs.
• DevOps, Agile, and CI/CD delivery experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with cross-functional cloud teams to define IAM roles and policies.
• Define and develop security controls for IAM in cloud environments.
• Build automation to enable self-service IAM identities and permissions.
• Deliver IAM solutions through CI/CD pipelines with automated testing.

Skills

Cloud proficiency

Security mindset

Independent worker

Education

CISSP

AWS Certified Security – Specialty

Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer

Tools

Terraform

CloudFormation

Python

Go

Java

Behave

pytest

JUnit

SOAP/REST APIs

CI/CD

Job description

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.

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.