Security Engineer IAM

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. You will be required to work onsite in London 4-5 days a week. Please DO NOT apply unless you can commit to this. 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