Company Description
Simplified IT is a global IT Staffing and Managed Services company. We have been rated top 10 staffing companies in the country for 3 years in a row. We serve technology, financial, auto, logistics & distribution companies across the United States, providing either IT staffing or technology solutions — or both. With decades of experience and a nationwide network of highly qualified, certified IT professionals, our goal is to build a lasting relationship with each client based on trust and consistent, reliable services.
Job Description
Senior Java Security Engineer, with expertise in SSO and Identity and Access Management systems to design and develop new enhancements in the higher education technology sector. The ideal candidate must be a self-starter that can identify and resolve issues autonomously and demonstrate best practices and expert-level knowledge in the area of J2EE security.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for the implementation, configuration, and maintenance of Keycloak-based authentication extensions and authorization systems using the Quarkus framework.
- Implement SAML and OpenIDConnect (OIDC)-based security
- Utilize knowledge of best practices in user account management and related security principles to enhance security posture and user experience
- Build efficient, testable, and reusable code
- Demonstrate expert-level knowledge in J2EE Dependency Injection
- Solve complex performance problems and architectural challenges
- Deploy code into an AWS cloud environment using Docker and Kubernetes
- Build and maintain APIs using GraphQL and REST
- Take ownership of existing build and deployment pipelines
- Coordinate and communicate with remote team members in an Agile development environment
Critical Skills and Qualifications
- Expert knowledge of OIDC and SAML
- Expert knowledge of J2EE and dependency injection
- Experience with Quarkus or Keycloak
- Thorough knowledge of User authentication and authorization flows between multiple systems, servers, and environments
- Experience building cloud-native containerized applications utilizing Docker and Kubernetes, preferably in AWS
- Experience building both REST and GraphQL APIs
- Understanding of synchronous and asynchronous operations
- Understanding of fundamental design principles for building a scalable application
- Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
- Expert-level experience with Git for version control
- Understanding of CI/CD and IaC
Preferred Skills and Qualifications
- Experience building Keycloak extensions
- Experience implementing custom authenticators, flows and internal SPIs in Keycloak.
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
