Cloud Engineer Specialist

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