Cloud IAM & API Engineer (Identity Workflows)

HelloKindred; Sheffield; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

HelloKindred in the United Kingdom is seeking an Application Developer with strong identity API expertise to design, build, and secure IAM workflows across Google Cloud. You will work with Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and ServiceNow to provision and govern access for enterprise-scale environments.

Responsibilities include building RESTful APIs, integrating identity services, and implementing policy-driven authentication with industry standards, while collaborating with security and DevOps teams in a

Qualifications

• Proven experience with modern identity orchestration platforms such as Auth0 Actions, Okta Workflows, WorkOS, or SlashID.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement identity flows for provisioning, de-provisioning, and orchestration of identity lifecycle events.
• Integrate Cloud Identity Services, ServiceNow, and internal services to streamline identity provisioning and lifecycle management.
• Build policy-based orchestration workflows for adaptive authentication and context-aware access using industry standards such as OPA.
• Design, build, and secure RESTful APIs and backend services supporting identity, provisioning, and governance workflows.
• Integrate APIs with authentication services for token validation, user sessions, and application-level authorization.
• Build and document internal SDKs, middleware, and shared libraries to maintain consistent IAM logic across services.
• Ensure API security, performance, reliability, resilience, and observability.
• Develop API-to-Pub/Sub pipelines for asynchronous workflows, including automated identity lifecycle tasks, access review event triggers, logging and audit forwarding, and security anomaly detection.
• Build Cloud Functions, Cloud Run microservices, or containerized services to process Pub/Sub messages.
• Implement robust event-processing patterns, including retries, idempotency, dead-letter queues (DLQs), and structured logging.
• Build and maintain Terraform modules for IAM, API services, Pub/Sub topics, workloads, and permissions.
• Automate deployment and validation of identity and access configurations through CI/CD pipelines.
• Implement automated testing for IAM policies and API behaviour.
• 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.
• Collaborate with security teams during audits, compliance checks, and incident investigations.

Skills

Python

Go

Node.js

OAuth2

OIDC

JWT

Terraform

Cloud Run

GKE

Pub/Sub

Auth0

Okta

Identity API

Security

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Cloud Run

Cloud Functions

GKE

Terraform

Secret Manager

Job description

HelloKindred in the United Kingdom is seeking an Application Developer with strong identity API expertise to design, build, and secure IAM workflows across Google Cloud. You will work with Cloud Run, Pub/Sub, and ServiceNow to provision and govern access for enterprise-scale environments.

Responsibilities include building RESTful APIs, integrating identity services, and implementing policy-driven authentication with industry standards, while collaborating with security and DevOps teams in a