Terraform Enterprise Engineering Lead (6 month FTC) - Banking

This is a strategic engineering position responsible for owning and evolving a Terraform Enterprise platform within a large-scale, highly regulated environment. You'll act as the technical authority for Terraform, driving Infrastructure as Code adoption, defining engineering standards, and enabling infrastructure teams to deliver secure, scalable, and automated platforms.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the implementation, administration and ongoing development of a self-hosted Terraform Enterprise platform.
• Define and maintain enterprise Infrastructure as Code standards, reusable modules and governance frameworks.
• Champion Terraform adoption and Infrastructure as Code best practices across engineering teams.
• Design and implementintegrations with enterprise platforms including:
  • GitLab CI/CD
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • CyberArk
  • VMware
  • Enterprise monitoring, logging and security tooling
• Develop secure authentication, authorisation and RBAC models.
• Build and maintain private Terraform module registries.
• Drive the transition from manual infrastructure provisioning to automated, repeatable deployment processes.
• Mentor engineers and provide technical leadership across the wider infrastructure function.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, platform, cloud and security teams on enterprise automation initiatives.

Required Skills & Experience

• Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform, including Terraform Enterprise.
• Strong background designing and implementing enterprise Infrastructure as Code platforms.
• Experience integrating Terraform with GitLab CI/CD pipelines.
• VMware infrastructure automation experience.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code principles, governance and platform engineering.
• Experience with Microsoft Entra ID, SSO, SAML/OIDC and RBAC.
• Knowledge of privileged access management solutions such as CyberArk.
• Strong Linux administration and enterprise infrastructure engineering experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and technical leadership skills.
• Experience working within large enterprise, regulated or financial services environments.

Desirable Experience

• Enterprise platform engineering and automation strategy.
• Infrastructure governance and engineering standards.
• Mentoring and developing engineering teams.
• Building scalable, secure automation capabilities within complex organisations.

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