Cloud Engineer Specialist

Role: Cloud Engineer Specialist Location: McLean, VA 22102 (Onsite) Duration: 06 - 12+ Month of contract with possible extension Need Local to VA only Must Have Qualifications: 7+ with preference of 10+ years of software development with at least 5 years of Cloud domain expertise in AWS, Microservices, Cloud integration, and access management. Candidate must have hands on experience with rest API in Java or Python. A successful candidate will have the following characteristics: Core Competencies - Primary Focus: Cloud Deployment & Operations: History of contributing to cloud deployments in an engineering role Service-Oriented Architecture: Deep understanding of SOA, microservices, and cloud-native application design API Development & Security: Building and securing APIs for distributed cloud systems and identity context sharing. API integration with IAM systems. Complex System Integration: Experience integrating 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: History of contributing to production deployments in an engineering role Core Competencies - Supporting: OAuth & Authentication: Building OAuth solutions for cloud service authentication and authorization Federation & SSO: SAML configuration and Single Sign-On integration across cloud applications IAM Architecture: Understanding of Identity Lifecycle Management, Access Management, and Credential Management in cloud contexts Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Security integration (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: User provisioning/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 Google Cloud Platform) 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 Technical 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 Differentiators WebAuthn: Experience is a nice to have Robot / Sauce Labs 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