Systems Engineer

Job Title: Systems Engineer
Job Location: Kansas City, MO
Job Duration: 12 Months (possibility of extension)

Job Summary:

• Access gateway Engineer uses technology to improve, streamline and automate information technology systems and services.
• The eBusiness Security Access Gateway team is seeking an automation engineer to join a team of security engineers to create and improve Infrastructure and Configuration as Code (IaC and CaC).
• The Access gateway Engineer will collaborate with the eBusiness engineering team to understand secure Authentication, Authorization, Web Gateway, and API services to reduce manual processes, build CI/CD pipelines, and reduce overall time to market.
• An automation engineer is needed to assist with further development of automated deployments inclusive of client Security Products.
• This position would assist in design and developing the code required to build and maintain Access Management Services.
• This will allow the enhancement of and development of stronger automation processes, including full CI/CD pipelines, around the various Access Gateway environments, leading to less manual execution of scripts.
• Further automation will allow administrators to focus on code rather than procedures.
• Long term this will improve Change Management (CM) practices by ensuring all changes are captured in source control.
• This will enable automated rebuilds rehydrating environments and rapid recovery from ransomware or other critical incidents.
• The position will be responsible for improving existing processes and creating new automated health checks.
• Further efforts will reduce time spent by administrators doing manual tasks, reducing errors, integration with CM, integrate system monitoring for auto incident creation, self-healing based on environmental health, and streamlining work intake requests by integrating with Service Now.
• Future development efforts will enable “no touch deployment” to further reduce time to market.
• Other duties will include knowledge sharing and continuously seeking improvement opportunities.

Quals--

Basic Qualifications:

• Ansible Tower.
• GitLab.
• Python.
• OpenShift and/or Kubernetes.
• Unix/Linux.
• Client scripting.
• Identity and Access Management Systems (IAM).
• Experience with RESTful API’s.
• Argo CD.
• Agile.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Knowledge of modern authentication and authorization protocols including:
• OAuth 2.0.
• Open ID Connect (OIDC).
• Federation (SAML 2.0).
• System for Cross-domain Identity Management (SCIM).
• Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).
• Experience with client Security products.
• SQL.
• JavaScript.
• ServicceNow.
• PKI Experience.
• RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL).
• Ansible Automation Hub and Ansible Galaxy.
• Nexus.

Other/Additional Requirements:

Working Conditions:

• Will require the use of standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, etc.

Physical Demands:

• Requires some degree of sitting (for prolonged periods of time), standing, lifting carrying, pushing, pulling less than 20 lbs.

Hours of Work:

• May require extended work hours.
• Occasional travel including overnight stays may be necessary.
• US Citizenship or US Permanent Resident status is required.

Education/Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent experience/Master's Degree may be preferred or with 5+ years of relevant work experience.