Remote API Security & Identity Engineer

Veterans EZ Info Inc; Tampa (FL); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote Opportunity

401k with Employer Match

Medical/Dental/Vision

Laptop provided

Training Opportunities

Job summary

VetsEZ is seeking an API Authentication Developer (PIVOT) for a 100% remote role supporting a large federal government healthcare modernization project. You will collaborate across teams to define API standards, govern OpenAPI contracts, and implement secure platform practices.

The role emphasizes JWT-based authentication, AD/LDAP integration, and Kubernetes‑based environments with CI/CD/GitOps automation. Remote employment is supported nationwide with strong security standards and observability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• Hands‑on experience with API management and API security, including AWS API Gateway, JSON-based APIs, API contracts, authentication, authorization, and accounting.
• Experience with identity and directory technologies, including Active Directory (AD), LDAP directory modeling, JWT‑based authentication, claims, tokens, and access-control patterns.
• Experience supporting Kubernetes‑based environments, API gateways, Linux systems, containerized workloads, networking, certificates, and SSL/TLS.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with the ability to diagnose complex API, platform, security, networking, and performance issues.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills with the ability to work across technical teams and help establish consistent API, security, and platform standards.

Responsibilities

• Define API design standards and review APIs for consistency, usability, versioning, deprecation, and backward compatibility.
• Author, maintain, and govern OpenAPI Specification contracts and associated API configuration and validation standards.
• Build and support Kubernetes resources, including Deployments, Services, Ingress/Gateway API objects, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and NetworkPolicies.
• Implement CI/CD and GitOps practices, automated configuration and specification validation, environment promotion, rollback processes, API metering, and usage analytics.
• Implement authentication and authorization patterns, including JWT issuance and validation, claims mapping, token modification, key rotation, AD/LDAP integration, certificates, TLS/mTLS, DNS, and network security.
• Instrument and troubleshoot platform environments using logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and operational reporting while addressing Linux, container runtime, networking, and performance issues.
• Take on additional tasks and responsibilities as needed to support team objectives and ensure the success of the project.

Skills

API management

API security

AWS API Gateway

JWT authentication

AD/LDAP

Kubernetes

CI/CD

GitOps

OpenAPI

TLS/mTLS

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/IT/Engineering

Tools

NGINX

Envoy

Istio

Argo CD

Flux

OpenTelemetry

Job description

VetsEZ is seeking an API Authentication Developer (PIVOT) for a 100% remote role supporting a large federal government healthcare modernization project. You will collaborate across teams to define API standards, govern OpenAPI contracts, and implement secure platform practices.

The role emphasizes JWT-based authentication, AD/LDAP integration, and Kubernetes‑based environments with CI/CD/GitOps automation. Remote employment is supported nationwide with strong security standards and observability.