Sr Cloud Engineer
Sr Cloud Engineer
Location: McLean, VA (Onsite)
Term: W2/Full Time Role
Job Summary:
Must have qualifications: 7+ years 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.
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 designAPI Development & Security
Building and securing APIs for distributed cloud systems and identity context sharing. API integration with IAM systems.
Complex System IntegrationExperience 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 & SSOSAML configuration and Single Sign-On integration across cloud applicationsIAM 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 IntegrationExperience 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:
Experience 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 IAMExperience with IAM architecture: OAuth, SSO, SAML federation, and MFA integration in cloud applications
Technical Skills:
- Amazon Web ServicesEC2, EKS, ECS, KMS, S3, IAM, RDS, etc.
- Container Orchestration
- KubernetesService MeshIstioPackage Management
- Helm, pip
- IaCTerraform, Cloud Formation
- DevOps Tools
- Jenkins, Git, Artifactory
- Design Patterns
- Formal design patterns and industry best-practices
- Java StackSpring / Spring Boot, JPA / Hibernate, Postgres, REST / RPC calls over HTTPScripting Languages
- Groovy / Perl / Python / RubySoft Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Self-motivated, driven, and creative individual
- DifferentiatorsWebAuthnExperience is a nice to have
- Robot / Sauce Labs
- SecurityPKI, 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 TechnologiesHTML5 / Bootstrap.
- NET LanguagesC#, VB