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Lead Security Automation Engineer
- Salary: Up to £90,000 (excellent employee benefits package)
- Job Type: Permanent
- Hybrid Model: Mostly remote with ad-hoc in office (approx. 2 days a month)
- Office Location: Canary Wharf
- End Client Sector: Financial Services / Banking (experience in sector essential)
Overview:
My client, a leading UK-based IT Services & Consulting organisation requires a Lead Security Automation Engineer to join their world-class Development team on a permanent basis. The engineer will initially be placed into a major Automation project with a major globally operating financial services end-client. Candidates will require a demonstrable leadership background, as well as knowledge and experience in security including patching & vulnerability remediation, and implementing security features within a major Ansible Tower DevOps environment.
Responsibilities:
- Expand on the existing automation capability to improve and fix overall vulnerability remediation capabilities across the enterprise.
- Maintain, troubleshoot, and create Ansible patching & vulnerability remediation playbooks
- Configuration of Ansible / Ansible Tower
- Development and maintenance of CI/CD Pipelines
- Create API-based (incl. but not limited to REST/GraphQL) integrations and orchestration for the vulnerability remediation, ServiceNow and internal self-service portals
- Assisting with Infrastructure-As-Code (IaC) development & deployment
- Upskill current team with knowledge of vulnerability remediation automation and orchestration
Required Skills:
- Background within Financial Services (highly desirable)
- Experience leading teams (DevOps / DevSecOps)
- Knowledge and experience in security including patching & vulnerability remediation
- Advanced proficiency in Ansible, Ansible Tower, and Ansible Playbooks
- Proficient skill in Python OR PowerShell scripting
- Understanding of Infrastructure-As-Code (IaC)
- Knowledge of cloud environments (ideally AWS)
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