Senior Systems Engineer

Senior Systems Engineer, #1058

Clearance: U.S. Citizenship is required. Must be able to obtain a public trust clearance. 

On site in Tysons Corner, VA 3 days per week

Dev Technology Group is looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to support a project to plan and implement Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) for web-based applications as part of Operations & Maintenance (O&M) for a federal government client. The ideal candidate will have relevant development language and development leadership experience, strong collaboration and communication skills, and the ability to manage complex work activities in a deadline-driven environment. This is a great opportunity to work on mission-critical systems that provide clear value to end users and our federal government clients.

Summary

In collaboration with the Engineering Lead and incumbent team members, the Senior Systems Engineer will have the responsibility to plan, design, and build the infrastructure for cloud-based identity and authentication services supporting MFA for web-based applications. The primary focus of this role is to build scalable, secure, and highly available backend infrastructure and services leveraging industry available and customer preferred solutions (e.g., AWS Cognito, Okta, Login.gov). The ideal candidate will combine strong cloud architecture expertise with deep knowledge of identity, security, and distributed systems.

Required Education, Experience, and Skills: 

• Bachelor’s Degree with ten (10) or more years of relevant experience in an Enterprise IT environment
• Experience implementing and integrating applications into authentication tools such as Login.gov, Cognito, Okta
• Knowledge and management of AWS GovCloud services, specifically Cognito, Lambda, S3, EC2, and API Gateway
• Project experience with Active Directory and connection to Federated sources
• Agile development environment experience
• Excellent communication skills (both verbal and written) plus Active listening skills
• Ability to discuss technical issues with non-technical government officials
• Ability to problem-solve and develop solutions to complex business needs

Preferred Education, Experience, and Skills:

• Experience with logging, monitoring, and auditing authentication events (CloudWatch, SIEM tools)
• Experience with serverless architectures in AWS
• Project experience planning and building infrastructure for an MFA solution
• Experience tuning and securing APIU gateways and network boundaries for identity services
• AWS certifications (e.g., AWS Certified Developer or Solutions Architect)
• Experience authoring technical documentation, boundary diagrams, and configuration management settings to support the federal ATO process

Our estimated salary range for this position is $120,000 - $170,000, this presented salary range is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Offered salary is based on experience, geographic location, and possibly contractual requirements as appropriate to the role. *Salary could fall outside of this range.