Senior IAM Operations Engineer (SRE & Cloud Security) #99610

Job Description

Company: Swoon

Location: McLean, US

Title: Senior IAM Operations Engineer (SRE & Cloud Security)

Location: McLean, VA

Workplace type: 100% onsite

Type: contract

Contract length: 12 months-chance of extension or conversion to full time

Pay: $79-80/hr on w2 (w2 only to covert to fte)

IV process: 2-3 rounds max

+optional benefits

Must haves:
• 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 change
• leverage observability frameworks to maintain platform health
• treat identity infrastructure as a highly available distributed system
• Min bachelor’s degree
• Strong Identity & Access Management (IAM) experience with Active Directory, Azure AD (Entra ID), AWS IAM, AWS Organizations, IAM Identity Center, and cross-account role management.
• Hands-on AWS cloud administration experience supporting enterprise-scale environments with a focus on authentication, authorization, and security.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) expertise using Terraform and/or AWS CloudFormation to deploy and manage identity resources, policies, and configurations.
• CI/CD pipeline experience utilizing tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or Jenkins to automate deployments, testing, and validation processes.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, PowerShell, Bash, or similar languages to reduce manual effort and improve operational efficiency.
• Monitoring, logging, and observability experience with tools such as Splunk, Datadog, Prometheus, ELK, CloudWatch, and CloudTrail for identity-related systems.
• Advanced troubleshooting and incident response experience supporting authentication and authorization platforms, conducting root cause analysis, and leading post-incident remediation efforts.

Key Responsibilities:

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

Source: LinkedIn