Jon Title: Senior Cloud Engineer
Work Location: McLean, VA
Long Term Contract
Onsite Job
Interview Process: Video Interview & Face to Face Interview
Must Have Qualifications: 15+ years of software development with at least 9 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.
Supplier Vetting Questions - Glider assessment or similar required.
A successful candidate will have the following characteristics:
Core Competencies - Primary Focus:
Cloud Deployment s 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 s 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 s Authentication: Building OAuth solutions for cloud service authentication and authorization
Federation s 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 Experience
15+ years in software development focused on cloud technologies and distributed systems
9+ years with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) in enterprise environments
5+ years with full SDLC for cloud/hybrid applications: requirements, design, implementation, integration, testing, and deployment automation
5+ years with cloud infrastructure: Kubernetes/Docker, cloud databases, application servers, networking (VPC, load balancers, API gateways), Linux, and security/data flows
5+ 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
Soft Skills
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Self-motivated, driven, and creative individual
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