[Remote] AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Keycloak Specialty)
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. General Dynamics Information Technology is a global technology and professional services company that delivers consulting, technology, and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government. They are seeking an AWS Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Keycloak Specialty) to support the Case Management Modernization Program by designing and managing secure authentication frameworks in a cloud environment, ensuring compliance with federal security principles.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain the identity architecture utilizing Keycloak
- Implement federated identity and single sign-on (SSO) solutions using modern protocols (SAML, OAuth2.0, OIDC)
- Collaborate with Cloud and Security Architects to enforce Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) across microservices and APIs
- Configure and maintain directory services and identity providers (e.g., AWS Cognito, AWS IAM Identity Center, Azure AD, IBM Verify, Key Cloak)
- Deep experience integrating KeyCloak as a broker IdP federating upstream enterprise IdPs while issuing downstream OIDC token to application
- Design identity solutions and support compliance assessments, ensuring adherence to FISMA, NIST 800-63, and FedRAMP security controls
- Develop and document identity lifecycle management processes—provisioning, deprovisioning, and access reviews
- Design and implement least privileged roles, groups, functionalities based on ZTA for both privileged and non-privileged users for a FedRAMP High system
- Experience defining workflow, rules, policies within ICAM tools particularly IBM Verify and Key Cloak
- Conduct access audits, user entitlement reviews, and anomaly detection to ensure least-privilege compliance
- Provide subject matter expertise in identity federation, PKI, certificate management, and secure API authorization
- Design strategies for logging, monitoring and auditing authentication and authorization related events in combination with other AWS event logs
- Design and implement storage level, microservice level Authentication and Authorization
- Support ATO process by providing solutions to all security controls, document implementation plan, maintain Visio diagrams
- Participate in design sessions and work closely with the security lead
- Collaborate with DevSecOps teams to embed ICAM policies within CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) templates
- Direct and lead Pen testing, Review architecture diagrams produced by different teams
- Independently lead design and implement of vulnerability management
- Lead and direct engineering team
Skills
- 10 + years of related experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, or equivalent experience required
- Hands-on experience with KeyCloak and AWS IAM Identity Center for SSO and MFA implementations
- Strong knowledge of identity federation protocols (SAML, OAuth2.0, OIDC, SCIM) and modern authentication flows
- Expertise with RBAC/ABAC frameworks, policy-based access control, and least-privilege enforcement
- Familiarity with NIST 800-63, FISMA, FedRAMP, and ZTA standards and compliance frameworks
- Experience implementing ICAM solutions in Agile and DevSecOps environments
- Working knowledge of PKI, digital certificates, and encryption technologies
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with ability to resolve identity integration issues
- Excellent presentation and communication skills
- Consultant mindset with the ability to work with high level customer stakeholders and build excellent customer relationship
- Strong analytical skills and problem-solving skills with the ability to formulate and communicate recommendations for improvement
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively, independently, and as part of a team
- Master's Degree
- 12+ years of experience in information systems
- Experience with AWS Container Security and Network Security
- Expert in designing logging and monitoring system by correlating events from several AWS and ICAM system
- Experience supporting digital modernization or judiciary IT programs
- Familiarity with Zero Trust Architecture and micro segmentation principles
- Exposure to API gateway authentication (Kong, Apigee, AWS API Gateway)
- Experience integrating identity governance tools (SailPoint, Saviynt)
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate or Professional
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty or Azure Identity & Access Administrator
- Certified Identity and Access Manager (CIAM) or Certified Identity Professional (CIP)
- SAFe Practitioner (SPC/SSM)
Benefits
- A variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
- Dental plan options
- A vision plan
- A 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
- Full flex work weeks where possible
- A variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
- 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness
- An additional 10 paid holidays per year
- Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee’s date of hire
- The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
- Short and long-term disability benefits
- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance
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