The final salary or hourly wage, as applicable, paid to each candidate/applicant for this position is ultimately dependent on a variety of factors, including, but not limited to, the candidate’s/applicant’s qualifications, skills, and level of experience as well as the geographical location of the position.

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Sponsorship not available.

Our client is seeking a AWS / IAM Engineer for a remote opportunity.

Role Description

Job Details:
Preferred characteristics:
• Worked on IAM technologies, processes, and cloud capabilities
• Expertise in scripting, coding pipelines, and jobs to enable full-scale automation
• Experience in 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 owning deliverables

Job Duties & Responsibilities:
• Responsible for delivering Cloud IAM solution implementation and operations within multiple ARTs
• Owns day-to-day activities for ARTs with Cloud IAM solution, implementation, architecture feasibility
• Liaise between Cloud IAM Engineering, BAU and ARTs/ Engineering teams to effectively collaborate Cloud IAM engineering requirements, efforts and outcomes with ART roadmap and deliverables
• Operates in a Hub – 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
• Prepare 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 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.

Skills & Requirements

Technical Skills:
• 2+ years of experience engineering AWS IAM and/or AWS Security solutions.
• 4+ years of experience developing automated solutions using Python scripts, modules, and/or packages for managing AWS configuration.
• 2+ years of experience in planning, building, & managing AWS IAM Policies, SAML Roles, Cross-Account Roles, Service-Link Roles, and applying access conditions & restrictions.
• 2+ years of experience in the development & operational support of AWS IAM processes, application integrations, vulnerability management, workload support, regulatory compliance, and service delivery/management.
• 2+ years of experience developing Infrastructure-as-Code solutions via Terraform.
• 2+ 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

Benefits/Other Compensation

This position is a contract/temporary role where Hays offers you the opportunity to enroll in full medical benefits, dental benefits, vision benefits, 401K and Life Insurance ($20,000 benefit).

Why Hays?

You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the industry and market trends. Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there’s a position you really want, you’re fully prepared to get it.

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We also believe that actions speak louder than words.
In that regard, we train our staff on ensuring inclusivity throughout the entire recruitment process and counsel our clients on these principles. If you have any questions about Hays or any of our processes, please contact us.

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