IAM DEVOPS L3 SUPPORT ENGINEER

Role:IAM DevOps L3 Support Engineer Duration:6 months contract Location: Remote Description: Responsible for planning and executing secure deployments across staging and production environments, managing a wide range of AWS services, and ensuring system reliability through proactive monitoring and incident response. Collaborates closely with InfoSec and development teams to integrate security into CI/CD pipelines, enforce secure coding practices, and develop automated tools for threat detection and vulnerability management. With a strong focus on compliance, operational excellence, and continuous improvement, this role plays a critical part in safeguarding enterprise systems and enabling secure software delivery at scale. Essential Functions: • Plan and execute secure deployments across staging and production environments, ensuring alignment with IAM operational standards. • Design, implement, and support AWS infrastructure, including core services like EC2, EKS, IAM, and CloudFront. • Integrate and maintain DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines, enabling secure, automated testing, deployment, and IAM operations. • Collaborate with InfoSec and development teams to implement security requirements, conduct threat reviews, and resolve vulnerabilities. • Develop and enforce security best practices, including secure coding, compliance with enterprise policies, and use of automated security tools. • Monitor system health and performance using Datadog, and lead incident response efforts for P1/P2 issues, including RCA and documentation. • Develop and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational procedures to support ongoing system reliability and knowledge sharing. • Participate in global operations meetings and scrums to ensure coordination across regions and teams. • Build and support cyber countermeasure capabilities to detect and prevent advanced threats across enterprise networks. • Continuously improve security tooling, automation, and training to align with evolving industry standards and practices. • Attend InfoSec meetings and discuss internally for prioritization and implementation Requirements: • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business or related field • Minimum of 6 years of experience in DevOps or cloud infrastructure roles. • Proven experience in L3 support, production deployments, and AWS infrastructure management. • Prior experience in handling P1/P2 incidents and leading RCA efforts in enterprise environments. Knowledge & Skills: • Knowledge of open security testing standards and projects, including OWASP • Knowledge of remediation efforts for discovered vulnerabilities • Knowledge of web application development, system administration, and the software and system development life cycle • Knowledge of red-teaming and covert computer network exploitation • Skilled in programming • Knowledge of secure coding best practices • Ability to craft custom exploits for proof-of-concept code • Knowledge in helping build RCA documents for P1 and P2 issues • Skilled in building/ creating Datadog alerts for all resource monitoring, including the runbooks • Experience with ForgeRock is a Plus -- Thanks & Regards, Pallavi Reddy| Technical Recruiter Thoughtwave Software and Solutions Desk: 630-228-9745 , EXTN:167 Email: pallavi@thoughtwavesoft.com