Senior Cloud IAM Engineer

Fully onsite role located in McLean, Virginia. Contract position with work hours from 9am to 5pm.

Responsibilities

• Cloud Deployment & Operations: Contribute to cloud deployments in an engineering role.
• Service-Oriented Architecture: Design and implement SOA, microservices, and cloud-native applications.
• API Development & Security: Build and secure APIs for distributed cloud systems and identity context sharing; integrate APIs with IAM systems.
• Complex System Integration: Integrate multiple cloud services and third-party applications in enterprise environments.
• Software Development Lifecycle: Full SDLC experience with cloud platforms and information security applications.
• Deployment Experience: Contribute to production deployments in an engineering role.
• OAuth & Authentication: Build OAuth solutions for cloud service authentication and authorization.
• Federation & SSO: Configure SAML and integrate Single Sign-On across cloud applications.
• IAM Architecture: Understand Identity Lifecycle Management, Access Management, and Credential Management in cloud contexts.
• Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Integrate security solutions (e.g., Duo or Microsoft Authenticator) into authentication, authorization, and SSO processes.
• Complex Integration: Experience with complex Identity and Access Management integration and service delivery use cases.
• Identity Lifecycle Management: Handle user provisioning and de-provisioning.
• Data Management: Strong knowledge in identity and access data correlation, normalization, and building cohesive identity and access data models for large enterprises.

Requirements

• 10+ years in software development focused on cloud technologies and distributed systems.
• 5+ years with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP) in enterprise environments.
• 3+ years with full SDLC for cloud/hybrid applications: requirements, design, implementation, integration, testing, and deployment automation.
• 3+ years with cloud infrastructure: Kubernetes/Docker, cloud databases, application servers, networking (VPC, load balancers, API gateways), Linux, and security/data flows.
• 3+ years designing and implementing cloud solutions with integrated security and IAM.
• Experience with IAM architecture: OAuth, SSO, SAML federation, and MFA integration in cloud applications.

Skills

• Amazon Web Services: EC2, EKS, ECS, KMS, S3, IAM, RDS, etc.
• Container Orchestration: Kubernetes
• Service Mesh: Istio
• Package Management: Helm, pip
• IaC: Terraform, Cloud Formation
• DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Git, Artifactory
• Design Patterns: Formal design patterns and industry best-practices
• Java Stack: Spring / Spring Boot, JPA / Hibernate, Postgres, REST / RPC calls over HTTP
• Scripting Languages: Groovy, Perl, Python, Ruby
• Soft Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills; self-motivated, driven, and creative individual
• Differentiators:
  • WebAuthn (nice to have)
  • Security: PKI, SSL / TLS, Fuzzing, etc.
  • Scaling CI / CD systems and microservices
  • Code coverage analysis / static analysis tools
  • Agile Methodologies: Scrum and other agile programming processes
  • Overseeing / managing production web application deployment
  • Frontend Technologies: JavaScript / TypeScript / Angular
  • Web Technologies: HTML5 / Bootstrap
  • .NET Languages: C#, VB .NET

Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree required.

Pay

$90 - 110 per hour.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits package, including:
  • Medical, prescription, dental, and vision insurance
  • AD&D and life insurance
  • Short-term disability
  • 401K plan (eligibility-based)