API and Authentication Developer
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Job Description
API platform engineer securing APIs, authentication, AWS, and Kubernetes environments. Supporting a federal healthcare modernization project through governance, automation, and operational troubleshooting.
Responsibilities:
- Define API design standards and review APIs for consistency, usability, versioning, deprecation, and backward compatibility
- Author, maintain, and govern OpenAPI Specification contracts and API configuration and validation standards
- Build and support Kubernetes resources, including Deployments, Services, Ingress/Gateway API objects, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and NetworkPolicies
- Implement CI/CD and GitOps practices, automated configuration and specification validation, environment promotion, rollback processes, API metering, and usage analytics
- Implement authentication and authorization patterns, including JWT issuance and validation, claims mapping, token modification, key rotation, AD/LDAP integration, certificates, TLS/mTLS, DNS, and network security
- Instrument and troubleshoot platform environments using logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and operational reporting
- Address Linux, container runtime, networking, and performance issues
- Take on additional tasks and responsibilities as needed to support team objectives and ensure project success
- Work closely with technical leads and cross-functional stakeholders to establish API and platform standards, maintain API contracts, strengthen security practices, and support reliable environment promotion, validation, and operational troubleshooting across teams
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience
- Hands-on experience with API management and API security, including AWS API Gateway, JSON-based APIs, API contracts, authentication, authorization, and accounting
- Experience with identity and directory technologies, including Active Directory (AD), LDAP directory modeling, JWT-based authentication, claims, tokens, and access-control patterns
- Experience supporting Kubernetes-based environments, API gateways, Linux systems, containerized workloads, networking, certificates, and SSL/TLS
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for complex API, platform, security, networking, and performance issues
- Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical teams
- Experience with AWS workloads, GitOps technologies such as Argo CD or Flux, and gateway or service-mesh technologies such as NGINX, Envoy, or Istio
- Experience with observability and monitoring technologies such as Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or OpenTelemetry
- Knowledge of OWASP practices, TLS/mTLS, secrets management, API security, and audit logging
- Experience mentoring teams or establishing platform engineering standards
- U.S. Citizenship is required
- All selected candidates must successfully complete a background check
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Government/Public Trust clearance, including required fingerprinting, when required for the position
- Sponsorship is not offered
Benefits:
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- 401k with Employer Match
- PTO + Federal Holidays
- Corporate Laptop
- Training Opportunities
- Remote Opportunity
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