Cloud Engineer Specialist

Cloud Engineer Specialist

Location: McLean, VA

Duration: 6-7 Months with possible contract to hire/ with possible extension

Need GC/Citizen only

Description:

Technical skills:

Must Have

AWS Bedrock, AWS Sagemaker, GenAI enablement , AWS IAM / least-privilege, AWS Networking (VPC, ALB, NLB) Infrastructure experience

Nice to have:

IAM, oauth

Kubernetes/Docker, cloud databases, application servers, networking (VPC, load balancers, API gateways), Linux, and security/data flows

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

• 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 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