NextGen IAM Engineer

Engineer NextGen IAM

Location: Sheffield, UK
Contract: 6 months
Rate: £425 per day, Inside IR35
Working Pattern: 3 days per week onsite

We are currently recruiting for an Engineer, NextGen IAM to join a large enterprise technology environment, working on modern, cloud-native Identity and Access Management solutions.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain cloud-native identity services and platform components.
• Build APIs, microservices and event-driven integrations.
• Develop secure integrations with enterprise identity platforms and third-party services.
• Implement authentication, authorisation and identity federation capabilities.
• Support Human Identity, Agent Identity and Workload Identity solutions.
• Develop and maintain Policy-as-Code integrations and authorisation services.
• Build and support Infrastructure as Code (IaC) implementations.
• Participate in design reviews and peer code reviews.
• Troubleshoot application, platform and integration issues.
• Support deployments across development, testing and production environments.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Support monitoring, logging and observability capabilities.
• Produce technical documentation, operational procedures and runbooks.
• Ensure solutions meet security, performance, scalability and resilience requirements.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineers, Security Engineers, Architects and Product Owners.
• Support production incidents and problem management activities.
• Identify automation and continuous improvement opportunities.
• Participate in Agile delivery ceremonies and team activities.
• Maintain awareness of emerging technologies and engineering best practices.

About You

You should have:

• Experience with cloud-native application development.
• Strong API development and REST API expertise.
• Experience designing and developing microservices architectures.
• Knowledge of event-driven architecture patterns.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience.
• Experience with Git-based source control.
• Experience implementing and supporting CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code principles and tools.
• Understanding of DevSecOps practices.
• Experience with identity standards including OAuth2, OIDC, SAML and SCIM.
• Knowledge of secure coding practices.
• Experience with software testing and automation.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work effectively within complex enterprise environments.

Mandatory Skills

Software Engineering | Cloud-Native Development | API Development | Microservices | Kubernetes | CI/CD | DevSecOps | IAM | OAuth2/OIDC | REST APIs

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given on the level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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