DevOps Engineer in Sheffield

About Synechron: Synechron is a leading digital transformation consulting firm dedicated to delivering innovative technology solutions within banking, financial services, and insurance. We thrive on engineering excellence, collaboration, and a passion for cutting-edge technologies.

Job Location: Sheffield (Hybrid- 3 days in the office)

About the role: 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 lifecycle 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. The role is 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 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.

Key Skills & Experience

• Infrastructure as code (Terraform & GCP Provisioning)
• 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)
• 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

• 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.

Diversity Statement: Synechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programmes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate. All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.