Systems Engineer - III

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Systems Engineer - III

Richmond, VA

• 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 IBM Security Products.
• This position would assist in designing 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, integrating 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.

• Ansible Tower.
• Git Lab.
• Python.
• Open Shift and/or Kubernetes.
• Unix/Linux.
• Shell scripting.
• Identity and Access Management Systems (IAM).
• Experience with RESTful API's.
• Argo CD.
• Agile.

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

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.