Cloud Engineer Specialist (Local to VA)- W2

Job Title: Cloud Engineer Specialist
Location: On-site (McLean, VA)
Contract Duration: 12 Months with possible extension
Rounds: 2 Rounds
Duration: 60 mins|90 minutes
Interview Type: Virtual - Technical interview| On-site

Employment: W2

Job Description -

Assignment Type: Contract Only

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.

Interview Information:
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 Google Cloud Platform) 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