DevOps Engineer - Remote

Kanak Elite Services; New Jersey; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology services company is seeking a skilled DevOps Engineer with expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM). The successful candidate will integrate IAM practices into DevOps pipelines, ensuring secure access and supporting infrastructure automation. Candidates should have over 10 years of experience in a devops role, strong AWS skills, and familiarity with security principles. The position offers a long-term remote contract.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or similar role.
• Strong experience with AWS IAM, AWS Cognito, and Identity Center.
• Solid understanding of least privilege and zero trust architecture.

Responsibilities

• Integrate IAM practices into DevOps pipelines.
• Ensure secure access control and support infrastructure automation.
• Utilize CI/CD systems effectively.

Skills

AWS IAM

Security principles

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD pipelines

Scripting

Communication skills

Tools

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Jenkins

Docker

Ansible

Job description

Overview

Position: DevOps Engineer with IAM Expertise with AWS

Location: Remote

Duration: Long term contract

Job Description

Solid understanding of CIAM in general and technologies like Federation, SAML 2.0, OAUTH2, OIDC, MFA

Job Summary

We are seeking a skilled and security-focused DevOps Engineer with expertise in Identity and Access Management (IAM) to join our growing engineering team. In this role, you will be responsible for integrating IAM practices into our DevOps pipelines, ensuring secure access control, and supporting our infrastructure automation and CI/CD systems. This is a hands-on role requiring both DevOps engineering skills and deep understanding of identity management tools, policies, and procedures.

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer or in a similar infrastructure-focused role.
• Strong experience with AWS IAM, AWS Cognito, and Identity Center (AWS SSO).
• Solid understanding of security principles, including least privilege and zero trust architecture.
• Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, or CDK).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, Jenkins, GitHub Actions, or GitLab CI) and configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, or Puppet).
• Experience with authentication standards such as SAML, OAuth2, OpenID Connect.
• Scripting experience with Python, Bash, or AWS CLI.
• Knowledge of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Amazon EKS, or ECS).
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.