IAM Developer

Role: IAM Developer

Job Type: Contract - Inside IR35

Location: Sheffield, UK - Hybrid -3 Days

Note: No Sponsorship

Job description

We are looking for a highly skilled Application Developer with strong expertise in identity API development data ingestion and transformation and event driven Pub Sub architectures This role focuses on building secure scalable identity and access workflows across Google Cloud Platform integrating identity services with custom APIs PubSub pipelines and cloudnative applications

You will collaborate closely with tech leads Cloud Security DevOps and Application Engineering teams to design and implement robust IAM automation identity lifecycle workflows and secure service integrations that support enterprise level cloud and Identity operations

Key Responsibilities

Identity Orchestration

• Design and implement identity flows for provisioning deprovisioning and orchestration of identity lifecycle events
• Integrate with Cloud Identity Services ServiceNow and internal services to streamline orchestrate identity provisioning and identity lifecycle management
• Build policy-based orchestration workflows for adaptive authentication and context aware access using industry standards like OPA

API Development

• Design build and secure RESTful APIs and backend services supporting identity provisioning and governance workflows
• Integrate APIs with our new authentication service for token validation user sessions and application-level authorization
• Build and document internal SDKs middleware and shared libraries for consistent IAM logic across services
• Ensure API security performance reliability resilience and observability

API to PubSub Event Processing

• Develop pipelines where API events publish to PubSub for asynchronous workflows such as automated identity lifecycle tasks, access review event triggers, logging and audit forwarding, security anomaly detection
• Build Cloud Functions Cloud Run microservices or containerized services to process PubSub messages
• Implement robust event processing patterns including retries idempotency DLQs and structured logging

Automation Infrastructure as Code

• Build and maintain Terraform modules for IAM API services Pub Subtopics workloads and permissions
• Automate deployment and validation of identity and access configurations via CICD pipelines
• Implement automated testing for IAM policies and API behaviour

Support Troubleshooting Collaboration

• Troubleshoot identity access and API workflow issues across distributed systems
• Provide technical guidance to engineering teams on secure API design IAM best practices and identity workflows
• Work with security teams during audits compliance checks and incident investigations

Technical Expertise

• Proven experience with modern identity orchestration platforms Auth0 Actions Okta Workflows Work OS or Slash ID
• Strong programming skills in Python Go or Nodejs for API and microservice development
• Experience designing and deploying cloudnative APIs Cloud Run Cloud Functions GKE
• Deep understanding of event driven architectures PubSub message processing and workflow automation
• Strong knowledge of OAuth2 OIDC JWT SAML and identity federation patterns
• Proficiency in Terraform or equivalent IaC tools
• Experience using API gateways reverse proxies or service mesh technologies

Soft Skills:

• Analytical thinker with strong debugging and root cause analysis abilities
• Clear communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering security and operations teams
• Ownership mindset with a security first mentality and attention to detail
• Ability to work in an agile fast paced environment

Nice to Have:

• Full Stack App Development React
• Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer or Cloud Architect certification
• Experience with additional identity providers Okta Azure AD Ping Identity
• Familiarity with Kubernetes GKE RBAC workload identity
• Experience using Secret Manager Vault or other secrets management tools
• Knowledge of compliance frameworks SOC2 ISO 27001 PCI HIPAA

Mandatory Skills: Node.js, Python