API and Authentication Developer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Florida.

📋 Description

• Establish API design guidelines and assess APIs to ensure consistency, usability, versioning, deprecation, and backward compatibility.

• Create, maintain, and oversee OpenAPI Specification contracts along with API configuration and validation standards.

• Develop and support Kubernetes resources such as Deployments, Services, Ingress/Gateway API objects, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and NetworkPolicies.

• Execute CI/CD and GitOps methodologies, automate configuration and specification validation, facilitate environment promotion, manage rollback processes, and implement API metering and usage analytics.

• Develop authentication and authorization models, including JWT issuance and validation, claims mapping, token modification, key rotation, AD/LDAP integration, certificates, TLS/mTLS, DNS, and network security.

• Monitor and troubleshoot platform environments utilizing logs, metrics, traces, dashboards, and operational reporting.

• Resolve issues related to Linux, container runtimes, networking, and performance.

• Undertake additional tasks and responsibilities as necessary to assist team objectives and ensure the success of projects.

• Collaborate closely with technical leads and cross-functional stakeholders to set API and platform standards, uphold API contracts, enhance security practices, and facilitate reliable environment promotion, validation, and operational troubleshooting across teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

• Practical experience in API management and security, including AWS API Gateway, JSON-based APIs, API contracts, authentication, authorization, and accounting.

• Familiarity with identity and directory technologies, including Active Directory (AD), LDAP directory modeling, JWT-based authentication, claims, tokens, and access-control patterns.

• Experience in supporting Kubernetes-based environments, API gateways, Linux systems, containerized workloads, networking, certificates, and SSL/TLS.

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting capabilities for complex API, platform, security, networking, and performance challenges.

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills across technical teams.

• Experience with AWS workloads, GitOps tools such as Argo CD or Flux, and gateway or service-mesh technologies like NGINX, Envoy, or Istio.

• Proficiency in observability and monitoring tools such as Datadog, Splunk, Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/OpenSearch, or OpenTelemetry.

• Understanding of OWASP guidelines, TLS/mTLS, secrets management, API security, and audit logging.

• Experience in mentoring teams or setting platform engineering standards.

• U.S. Citizenship is required.

• All selected candidates must successfully complete a background check.

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Government/Public Trust clearance, including necessary fingerprinting when required for the position.

• Sponsorship is not available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical/Dental/Vision coverage.

• 401k plan with Employer Match.

• Paid Time Off (PTO) plus Federal Holidays.

• Corporate Laptop provided.

• Opportunities for Training.

• Remote work options available.