Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Varmoda is a federal IT solutions provider delivering citizen-centric public services across financial assistance, public benefits, and security and defense domains. The Automation Engineer will design, develop, test, secure, and document automation workflows for identity integrations across Minnesota agencies, while supporting Azure monitoring, AI capabilities, chatbot improvements, release management, and knowledge transfer.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with business analysts to produce automation design method
- Create program specifications and prototypes
- Transform designs and specifications to create and test functions, scripts and high functioning code required to automate Open ID Connect (OIDC) and SAML 2.0 integrations
- Test code to ensure it produces the desirable results and perform debugging, when necessary
- Document clear and repeatable processes for onboarding applications that agencies can use
- Assist with implementation of automation with approximately 900 systems across Minnesota agencies
- Provide support and assistance on resolution of issues
- Configure Azure Monitor and Application Insights for all automation workflows and custom policies to be able to track latency and errors
- Configure Log Analytics to capture required logs to adequately monitor and troubleshoot automation workflows
- Document and implement AI capabilities, necessary to automate integrations
- Design and implement technical security controls to prevent compromising any programming, scripts or AI integrated technologies
- Design improved ChatBot capabilities for the ChatBot can use machine learning to improve the customer experience and assistance
- Design and implement method to correlate application logs to provide reporting capabilities to the customer and faster troubleshooting for the enterprise support team
- Review current release management processes and procedures. Recommend and implement any improved efficiencies with utilization of the State's Github and Azure DevOps
- Document any changes required to the constituent identity and access management standard resulting from the new design
- Create knowledge articles and complete knowledge transfer to State team so they can support and modify capabilities implemented
Skills
- * 5+ years' knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and authorization code flows used by Azure AD B2C and Oracle OAG experience
- * 5+ years' experience with Azure DevOps CI/CD pipelines for automating app registrations and API resource deployments
- * 5+ years' experience implementing custom orchestration steps, claims transformations, REST API integrations, and Microsoft Graph API–based operations
- * Hands-on experience building and securing APIs for identity workflows
- * Expertise in Identity Experience Framework (IEF) XML policy development and debugging
- * Experience integrating applications using MSAL for various platforms
- * Familiarity with Oracle IAM technologies including OAG, OUD, and Oracle Apex
- * Two (2) engagements lasting more than six (6) months in Developer/Programmer role using Azure B2C, Oracle OAG, Oracle OUD or Strata Maverics
- * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Software Engineering, or a related technical field required
- * Equivalent combination of relevant professional experience may substitute for the degree requirement on a year-for-year basis
- * SC-300 (Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate)
- * AZ-400 (Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert)
- * AZ-104 (Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate)
- * Oracle Identity and Access Management Certified Implementation Specialist (or equivalent Oracle IAM credential, given OAG/OUD/Apex requirement)
Benefits
- Growth opportunity within a fast-scaling federal IT firm
- Direct impact on citizen-facing federal programs
- 401k, health insurance, Paid Time Off, Life Insurance and others — customize per role/location
- Veteran-friendly (V3) workplace culture
- Remote work
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