DevOps Engineer

FDM Group

$95K — $115K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 1+ years of experience in DevOps engineering or related technical discipline
  • Hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure and Azure DevOps
  • Proficient in Infrastructure as Code, especially Azure Bicep
  • Experience designing and maintaining enterprise CI/CD pipelines
  • Strong scripting and automation skills using PowerShell or Python
  • Understanding of cloud networking concepts and security practices
  • Experience in supporting production-critical systems and incident response

Responsibilities

  • Design and optimize secure, scalable Azure cloud infrastructure
  • Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management
  • Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps
  • Monitor application and infrastructure performance and capacity
  • Integrate security practices into the software delivery process
  • Collaborate with developers to enhance application architecture and deployment
  • Create technical documentation and mentor teams on best practices

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model requiring in-office attendance 3 days a week
  • Exposure to high-stakes projects within the financial services sector
  • Opportunity to enhance skills in a highly regulated enterprise environment
  • Potential for contract extension beyond the initial 12 months
  • Engagement in a security-driven team culture with a focus on automation and scalability
Full Job Description
Über die Rolle

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.

Das bringst du mit

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


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