This position requires the successful candidate to work on a W2 directly with FDM. We cannot accept C2C, 1099 or employment sponsorship (e.g. H1-B) for this position. FDM is seeking a DevOps Engineer located in NYCto support a project in the Financial Servicessector. Involvement in this project is anticipated to last initially 12 monthsbut may be extended. This role will be hybrid with requirements to be in office 3 days per week. Our client is seeking a DevOps Engineer with experience in Azure and Azure DevOps to support the team in building a developer and cloud centric application delivery program. This individual will help identify, document, and automate developer requests to build scalable processes. A persistent security-driven mindset and agility will be critical in this function. Primary Responsibilities Cloud Infrastructure & Platform Engineering - Design, build, maintain, and optimize secure, scalable, and highly available cloud infrastructure in Microsoft Azure - Develop standardized infrastructure patterns, reusable modules, and platform services for application teams - Support networking, compute, storage, identity, secrets management, and related cloud services - Partner with infrastructure, cybersecurity, and development teams on platform design and technology standards Infrastructure as Code & Automation CI/CD & Software Delivery Monitoring, Reliability & Production Operations Security, Governance & Controls Engineering Collaboration & DevOps Adoption Required Qualifications Preferred Qualifications - Previous experience within investment banking, financial services, private equity, asset management, or another highly regulated enterprise environment - Advanced experience with the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, particularly technologies such as Azure DevOps, Entra ID, AKS, Azure Monitor, Key Vault, and Azure networking - Experience with Docker and container orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes - Experience developing reusable Bicep modules and managing enterprise-scale Bicep environments - Experience with DevSecOps, including SAST, DAST, dependency scanning, container scanning, secrets scanning, and policy-as-code - Familiarity with enterprise security and governance frameworks, including audit controls, change management, segregation of duties, and technology risk management - Knowledge of database platforms and deployment automation involving SQL Server, PostgreSQL, or other relational databases - Experience with API management, messaging/event platforms, or enterprise integration technologies - Familiarity with SRE concepts such as SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, capacity management, and reliability engineering - Experience with disaster recovery and business continuity testing - Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Azure Bicep - Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, deployments, patching, and recurring operational processes - Develop automation and tooling using Powershell or Python - Establish reusable automation frameworks that reduce manual processes and improve environment consistency - Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure DevOps Classic and Release Pipelines - Automate application build, testing, security scanning, deployment, and release-management processes - Implement deployment strategies such as rolling deployments, blue/green deployments, and automated rollback - Partner with development teams to improve release velocity, repeatability, and overall developer experience - Establish source-control, branching, artifact-management, and deployment best practices - Implement application and infrastructure monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability - Work with technologies such as Azure Monitor, Application Insights, Dynatrace, Idera, etc - Define and monitor operational metrics, service health indicators, and infrastructure capacity - Participate in production incident response, root-cause analysis, and post-incident remediation - Identify recurring operational issues and implement automation or architectural improvements to eliminate them - Support disaster recovery, business continuity, backup, and infrastructure resiliency initiatives - Embed security practices throughout infrastructure and software delivery processes - Partner with cybersecurity teams to implement identity and access management, secrets management, vulnerability scanning, patching, encryption, and security controls - Integrate security scanning and policy enforcement into CI/CD pipelines - Maintain infrastructure and deployment practices consistent with enterprise governance, change management, and audit requirements - Support remediation of vulnerabilities, configuration issues, and technology risks - Partner with application developers to improve application architecture, deployment processes, and operational readiness - Promote DevOps practices including automation, Infrastructure as Code, continuous delivery, observability, and shared ownership - Create technical documentation, runbooks, architecture diagrams, and operational procedures - Mentor development and infrastructure teams on cloud and DevOps engineering best practice - 1+ years of experience in DevOps engineering, cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, infrastructure engineering, or a related technical discipline - Hands-on professional experience with at least one major cloud platform, preferably Microsoft Azure - Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably using Azure Bicep - Proven experience designing and maintaining enterprise CI/CD pipelines - Strong scripting and automation capabilities using PowerShell, Python, or similar languages - Experience with Git, source-control practices, branching strategies, and code-review processes - Strong understanding of cloud networking concepts including DNS, load balancing, firewalls, private networking, routing, proxies, certificates, and connectivity - Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability solutions - Experience supporting highly available, production-critical systems and participating in incident response - Strong understanding of IAM, secrets management, privileged access, certificate management, vulnerability management, and secure infrastructure practices - Experience troubleshooting issues across applications, infrastructure, networks, operating systems, and cloud services - Strong understanding of modern software development and SDLC practices - Ability to manage multiple concurrent engineering initiatives while working across infrastructure, application development, security, architecture, and business technology teams