Senior Engineer, Cloud/AWS/IAM (Remote - EST Hours)

Our Customer is a consumer financial services company headquartered in Connecticut. The company offers consumer financing products, including credit, promotional financing and loyalty programs, installment lending to industries, and FDIC-insured consumer savings products through the consumer bank, its wholly owned online bank subsidiary.

We are seeking a Senior Cloud/AWS/IAM Engineer on a contract basis to support our customer’s ongoing business needs. This role is 100% remote in EST hours.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver Cloud IAM solution implementation and operations within multiple ARTs
• Owns day-to-day activities for ARTs with Cloud IAM solution, implementation, and architecture feasibility
• Liaise between Cloud IAM Engineering, BAU, and ARTs/ Engineering teams to effectively collaborate Cloud IAM engineering requirements, effort,s and outcomes with ART roadmap and deliverables
• Operates in a hub–and–spoke model, as a Cloud IAM SME for each ART assigned
• Participates and contributes to PI planning meetings in their assigned ART
• Understands the projects that are deployed on AWS and comprehends dependency on IAM team
• Does feasibility study on the task Accepts/diverts to other teams based on the study
• Collaborate with Risk, Assurance and other teams in defining and managing controls for Cloud IAM
• Understands the requirements that come from ART team for Role Creation/modification
• Operationalize ART-level work intake, Incidents, issues and manage the backlog required to enable ARTs to migrate and adapt Cloud platform standardization
• Conducts roles’ permissions security and compliance checks with CIE restricting requirements
• Creates Service Tickets and obtains approvals from role owners and accounts
• Prepares templates as needed for Ops (BAU) team
• Facilitates expediting specific access requests
• Provides break-fix troubleshooting support for the ART through ITIL Incidents.
• Drive implementation within ARTs adhering to Cloud IAM standards, best practices and Synchrony security/ governance expectations
• Maintains access to architectural designs and documentation for the products in the ART
• Own ART-level backlog, work intake and tickets for their respective ARTs
• Provides Sprint updates to RTEs and Product Owners.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in engineering AWS IAM and/or AWS Security solutions.
• 7+ years of experience developing automated solutions using Python scripts, modules, and/or packages for managing AWS configuration.
• 4+ years of experience in planning, building, & managing AWS IAM Policies, SAML Roles, Cross-Account Roles, Service-Link Roles, and applying access conditions & restrictions.
• 4+ years of experience in the development & operational support of AWS IAM processes, application integrations, vulnerability management, workload support, regulatory compliance, and service delivery/management.
• 4+ years of experience developing Infrastructure-as-Code solutions via Terraform.
• 5+ years in CI/CD automation using industry standard tools (Bitbucket, Jenkins, EKS, ECR, Chef etc.) DevOps & CI/CD best practices.
• AWS / Cloud IAM implementation with AWS IAM, Identity Center, Access Analyzer and all associated AWS PaaS, IaaS services
• Strong understanding of identity and access management principles and best practices on AWS.

Preferred:

• SME with IAM technologies, process and cloud capabilities
• Expertise in scripting, coding pipelines and jobs to enable full-scale automation
• Experience in to cloud governance, audit, controls and compliance
• Cloud monitoring, detection, threat intelligence tools and resolution
• Adept professional communication with technical, product and business owners
• Ability to compile and drive Cloud IAM solutions with the requirements of engineering, product and application teams
• Experience working in Matrix teams and own deliverables

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements)

Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.