An employer is seeking a remote AWS IAM Engineer for a direct hire opportunity. This individual will be a dedicated resource on a newly built AWS IAM operations team. This candidate will engineer and deploy AWS IAM resources including users, groups, roles, and policies using AWS CloudFormation templates and following Cloud IAM team processes and procedures. Day-to-day delivery of the AWS IAM configuration required to support business requirements, application integrations, workloads, regulatory compliance, and all other platform efforts or deliverables. Actively monitor and respond accordingly to AWS IAM configuration changes, events, and alerts following applicable CIE team process and procedures · Evaluates existing AWS IAM permission policies and adjust them as needed to enforce principle of least privilege. Ensure effective security protection controls and hardening requirements are in place for all AWS IAM resources. Ensure all AWS IAM resources and configuration adhere to and compliant with all Synchrony policies/standards, industry best practices/benchmarks, and regulatory requirements Participates in Agile team's ceremonies. Updates assigned Jira stories daily as required by the Agile team to provide status and next steps. Ensures service requests contain proper approvals and documentation prior to starting the work and deconflicts discrepancies with the CIE Service Management Lead.
This resource will also be required to work directly with the customer providing updates and solutions! Strong presentation skills will be required.
3+ years of experience engineering, provisioning, and deploying AWS IAM resources including users, groups, roles, and policies
Experienced in CloudFormation (CNF)
Solid familiarity with DevOps/ IaC/ PaC (Policy as code)
Git/ Jenkins/ Bitbucket
Great communication and ability to work with clients
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.