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job summary: OpenKyber is hiring and we're looking for someone like YOU to join our team! If you are seeking a new opportunity, looking to grow in your career, or you know someone who is - we want to hear from you! Take a look at the below opportunity, or feel free to visit RandstadUSA.com to view and apply.

location: McLean, Virginia

job type: Contract

salary: $85.70 - 94.85 per hour

work hours: 8am to 5pm

education: Bachelors

Job Description: Senior IAM Operations Engineer (SRE & Cloud Security)

• Infrastructure & Cloud Operations: Hybrid Identity Management: Manage and optimize the core identity footprint across enterprise Active Directory (AD/Azure AD) and AWS IAM (including AWS Organizations, IAM Identity Center, Service Control Policies, and complex cross-account roles).
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Maintain and deploy IAM resources, policies, and directory configurations using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
• SRE Mindset: Ensure the uptime, performance, and scalability of Identity systems. Proactively minimize operational "toil" through automation, scripting, and self-service tooling.
• CI/CD & Automation Pipeline Management: Design and support CI/CD pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins) to securely automate policy testing, deployment, and validation.
• Automated Governance: Implement guardrails and automated compliance scanning into the deployment pipelines to prevent privilege creep and misconfigurations before they reach production.
• Observability & Incident Response: Deep Telemetry: Establish comprehensive monitoring, logging, and alerting for all authentication and authorization paths using tools like Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus, ELK, or AWS CloudWatch/CloudTrail.
• Incident Handling & Post-Mortems: Act as a tier-3 escalation point for complex identity and authentication issues. Lead blameless post-mortems to identify root causes and build automated preventions for future outages.

Strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) background to manage, scale, and secure our enterprise identity infrastructure. Ability to bridge the gap between traditional identity management (Active Directory) and modern cloud architectures (AWS) Instead of manually provisioning access, ability to build and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate infrastructure changes, leverage observability frameworks to maintain platform health, and treat identity infrastructure as a highly available distributed system.

Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status. At OpenKyber, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, OpenKyber offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility). This posting is open for thirty (30) days. Any consideration of a background check would be an individualized assessment based on the applicant or employee's specific record and the duties and requirements of the specific job.

For applications and inquiries, contact: hirings@openkyber.com

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