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AWS Engineer

CogniSoft TechnologiesAlexandria, VA🇺🇸United StatesPosted 12 Jul 2026

Quick Overview

Work Type
Hybrid
Level
Mid Senior

Job Description

Job Title: AWS Engineer
Location: Alexandria, VA
Duration: 12+ months contract
 
A successful candidate will have the following characteristics:
Core Competencies - Primary Focus:
  • Must Have Qualifications: 7+ with preference of 10+ years of software development with at least 5 years of Cloud domain expertise in AWS, Microservices, Cloud integration, and access management. Candidate must have hands on experience with rest API in Java or Python.
  • Cloud Deployment & Operations: History of contributing to cloud deployments in an engineering role
  • Service-Oriented Architecture: Deep understanding of SOA, microservices, and cloud-native application design
  • API Development & Security: Building and securing APIs for distributed cloud systems and identity context sharing. API integration with IAM systems.
  • Complex System Integration: Experience integrating multiple cloud services and third-party applications in enterprise environments
  • Software Development Lifecycle: Full SDLC experience with cloud platforms and information security applications
  • Deployment Experience: History of contributing to production deployments in an engineering role
Core Competencies - Supporting:
OAuth & Authentication: Building OAuth solutions for cloud service authentication and authorization
Federation & SSO: SAML configuration and Single Sign-On integration across cloud applications
IAM Architecture: Understanding of Identity Lifecycle Management, Access Management, and Credential Management in cloud contexts
Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA): Security integration (Duo or Microsoft Authenticator) into authentication, authorization, and SSO processes
Complex Integration: Experience with complex Identity and Access Management integration and service delivery use cases
Identity Lifecycle Management: User provisioning/de-provisioning
Data Management: Strong knowledge in identity and access data correlation, normalization, and building cohesive identity and access data models for large enterprises
Experience
  • 10+ years in software development focused on cloud technologies and distributed systems
  • 5+ years with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) in enterprise environments
  • 3+ years with full SDLC for cloud/hybrid applications: requirements, design, implementation, integration, testing, and deployment automation
  • 3+ years with cloud infrastructure: Kubernetes/Docker, cloud databases, application servers, networking (VPC, load balancers, API gateways), Linux, and security/data flows
  • 3+ years designing and implementing cloud solutions with integrated security and IAM
  • Experience with IAM architecture: OAuth, SSO, SAML federation, and MFA integration in cloud applications
Technical Skills:
  • Amazon Web Services: EC2, EKS, ECS, KMS, S3, IAM, RDS, etc.
  • Container Orchestration: Kubernetes
  • Service Mesh: Istio
  • Package Management: Helm, pip
  • IaC: Terraform, Cloud Formation
  • DevOps Tools: Jenkins, Git, Artifactory
  • Design Patterns: Formal design patterns and industry best-practices
  • Java Stack: Spring / Spring Boot, JPA / Hibernate, Postgres, REST / RPC calls over HTTP
  • Scripting Languages: Groovy / Perl / Python / Ruby
  • Soft Skills
Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Self-motivated, driven, and creative individual
Differentiators
WebAuthn: Experience is a nice to have
Robot / Sauce Labs
Security: PKI, SSL / TLS, Fuzzing, etc.
Scaling CI / CD systems and microservices
Code coverage analysis / static analysis tools
Agile Methodologies: Scrum and other agile programming processes
Overseeing / managing production web application deployment
Frontend Technologies: JavaScript / TypeScript / Angular
Web Technologies: HTML5 / Bootstrap
.NET Languages: C#, VB .NET

Skills

Scrum
Agile

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