- Company Name
- Itech Enterprises
- Job Title
- Senior DevOps Engineer – Identity Focus
- Job Description
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**Job Title**
Senior DevOps Engineer – Identity Focus
**Role Summary**
Design, develop, and maintain automated identity and access management solutions for a green‑field managed service on AWS. Lead the implementation of Keycloak, Okta, OpenID, SAML, and SSO integration, ensuring robust observability, auditing, and CI/CD pipelines. Drive infrastructure as code and container orchestration practices to support scalable SaaS identity services.
**Expectations**
- Minimum 7 years of cloud DevOps experience with a focus on identity technologies.
- Proven ability to architect secure, scalable, and automated identity solutions on AWS.
- Strong hands‑on experience with Keycloak, Okta, OpenID Connect, and SAML.
- Deep understanding of SSO workflows, security audits, and observable metrics for identity services.
- Proficiency in GitLab CI/CD, Terraform, Kubernetes, and related workflow automation tools.
**Key Responsibilities**
- Architect and implement identity brokering solutions using Keycloak and Okta, integrating OpenID Connect and SAML.
- Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines in GitLab for provisioning, testing, and deploying identity services.
- Develop Terraform modules for automated deployment of AWS resources (VPC, IAM, Cognito, etc.).
- Manage Kubernetes deployments, ensuring secure RBAC, network policies, and auto‑scaling of identity components.
- Configure monitoring, logging, and audit trails (e.g., CloudWatch, ELK, Prometheus) for identity services.
- Design SSO solutions for internal and external SaaS customers, including potential Citrix SSO integration.
- Participate in architecture reviews, security assessments, and performance tuning of identity workloads.
**Required Skills**
- AWS (EC2, IAM, Cognito, Lambda, CloudFormation/ CDK)
- Identity protocols: OpenID Connect, SAML 2.0
- Keycloak, Okta, LDAP integration
- CI/CD with GitLab (GitLab Runner, pipeline scripting)
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, AWS CDK
- Container orchestration: Kubernetes (K8s, Helm)
- Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, ELK stack
- SSO concepts (FIDO, OAuth, SAML)
- Security fundamentals: encryption, key management, compliance
**Required Education & Certifications**
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent practical experience).
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional (preferred).
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or equivalent (preferred).
- Certifications in identity management (e.g., Okta Certified Administrator) are a plus.