Engineer

Vallum Associates; Sheffield; On-site; GBP 55,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Vallum Associates seeks an Engineer to lead the delivery and operation of enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) capabilities. The role focuses on designing, developing, testing and supporting IAM platform components within an agile team to deliver secure, scalable identity services for the IDAM 2.0 programme.

You will collaborate with Platform Engineers, Security Engineers and Product Owners, implement authentication and federation, and contribute to automation, monitoring and runbooks

Qualifications

• Experience delivering IAM or identity platform projects.
• Experience with cloud-native architectures and platforms.
• Familiarity with Agile development practices.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain cloud-native identity services and platform components.
• Build APIs, microservices and event-driven integrations.
• Implement features in line with solution designs and engineering standards.
• Develop secure integrations with enterprise identity platforms and third-party services.
• Implement authentication, authorisation and identity federation capabilities.
• Support the implementation of Human Identity, Agent Identity and Workload Identity solutions.
• Develop Policy-as-Code integrations and authorisation services.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code where required.
• Participate in peer code reviews and design reviews.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application and integration issues.
• Support deployment activities across development, test and production environments.
• Produce technical documentation and operational runbooks.
• Ensure solutions meet security, performance and resilience requirements.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineers, Security Engineers, Architects and Product Owners.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Support monitoring, logging and operational observability.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including planning, refinement, stand-ups and retrospectives.
• Identify opportunities for automation and continuous improvement.
• Support production incidents and problem resolution as required.

Job description

The Engineer will play a key role in delivering and operating enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) capabilities. Design, develop, test and support the identity platform capabilities that deliver the IDAM 2.0 programme. Work collaboratively within an Agile delivery team to implement secure, scalable and resilient identity services whilst adhering to engineering standards and best practices.

In this role, you will:

• Develop and maintain cloud-native identity services and platform components.
• Build APIs, microservices and event-driven integrations.
• Implement features in accordance with solution designs and engineering standards.
• Develop secure integrations with enterprise identity platforms and third-party services.
• Implement authentication, authorisation and identity federation capabilities.
• Support the implementation of Human Identity, Agent Identity and Workload Identity solutions.
• Develop Policy-as-Code integrations and authorisation services.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code where required.
• Participate in peer code reviews and design reviews.
• Troubleshoot and resolve application and integration issues.
• Support deployment activities across development, test and production environments.
• Produce technical documentation and operational runbooks.
• Ensure solutions meet security, performance and resilience requirements.
• Collaborate with Platform Engineers, Security Engineers, Architects and Product Owners.
• Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Support monitoring, logging and operational observability.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies including planning, refinement, stand-ups and retrospectives.
• Identify opportunities for automation and continuous improvement.
• Support production incidents and problem resolution as required.