DevOps Engineer

About The Role

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 a global business and technology consultancy delivering client and industry driven solutions through our 5 core specialist Practices; Software Engineering, Data & Analytics, IT Operations, Change & Transformation, and Risk, Regulation & Compliance.

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.

About You

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

About Us

About FDM

FDM powers the people behind tech and innovation. We spot trends, find top talent, and help businesses stay ahead.

With 35+ years of experience, we coach, mentor, and launch fresh thinkers from diverse backgrounds into world-class careers. Partnering with top global companies, we deliver the right talent at the right time—while guiding our people toward exponential growth.

Global impact – 18 centers across North America, APAC, the UK, and Europe

25,000+ careers launched – and counting

300+ trusted client partners

Committed to Equal Opportunities

Tech careers should be for everyone. With 75+ nationalities represented, FDM thrives on diversity, fuels innovation through unique perspectives, and celebrates success together. As an Equal Opportunity Employer and FTSE4Good-listed company, we ensure every qualified applicant gets a fair shot—no barriers, just opportunities.

Additional Considerations

FDM Group, Inc. is registered to operate and hire employees in select states within the US. We will consider employment applications exclusively from candidates who are either residing in one of the following states or willing to relocate to them: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Virginia.