Project Description & Role

Take your career onwards and upwards thanks your experience and technical know-how in cutting edge identity and access management, professional qualities and personality, regardless of where you happen to be based!

K&C is recruiting for a remote role to work on the digital evolution of Germany’s market leader in adventure activities, experience gifts and tourism, part of a major Frankfurt-listed group.

The group is expanding quickly with new brands and verticals including a tour operator, leisure community, a booking platform and new SaaS product. 

Your role and responsibilities:

• Design and engineer a modern identity and access management solution for external (B2B/B2C) and internal actors.
• Collaborate on technical IAM solution designs with product owners and developers.
• Develop and provide a robust cloud-native IAM platform to power our digital services.
• Plan implementation and operation of cloud-native identity providers with AWS Cognito and Azure AD as first-class citizens.
• Solve authentication and authorization for internal microservice communication.
• Guide developers through IAM concepts during implementation with reviews and workshops.
• Establish best practices and a high level of standardization for several projects and stakeholders.
• Leverage state-of-the-art technologies such as containerized applications run in Kubernetes clusters and connected via Istio service meshes.

Requirements:

• Deep understanding of multi-actor and multi-device IAM architectures and processes
• Experience with web-native IAM standards OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT
• Experience with technical solution design and UML/BPMN modeling
• Expertise in applying cryptographic encryption, signature, and certificate mechanisms
• Experience in the architecture of distributed applications (microservices, self-contained systems)
• Experience with AWS or other cloud providers
• Knowledge of Kubernetes, Istio and cloud-native concepts
• Agile mindset and solution-driven way of thinking
• Passion for knowledge sharing and willingness to mentor other team members in best practices, code quality, and tech frameworks

Required skills:

• Kubernetes – 3 years
• OAuth – 2 years
• Amazon AWS – 3 years
• AWS Cognito – 2 years
• Terraform – 2 years
• Identity Access Management – 3 years
• Experience in AgileDevOps – 2 years
• Experience in Go(lang) will be a plus
• English – proficient

Applied concepts

Agile mindset, DevOps – You build it, you run it. – Infrastructure as Code – Continuous Deployment – 12-Factor App – Self-contained Systems – Domain-Driven Design (DDD) – Behavior Driven Development (BDD) – Test-Driven Development (TDD) – Event-driven Architecture – Self-contained Systems – Hexagonal Architecture – Micro Frontends – CI / CD – Contract First – GitOps – federated Single-Sign-On

Customer tech stack

Kubernetes – Docker – Terraform – Helm – FluxCD – AWS – Azure AD – Oathkeeper – AWS Cognito – AWS EKS – Istio – Golang – Prometheus – Grafana – PagerDuty – Uptrends – Fluentd – CloudWatch – Apache Kafka (AWS MSK) – PostgreSQL/MariaDB (AWS RDS) – Jaeger distributed tracing – Elastic Search – NodeJS/NestJS – ReactJS – PHP7/Symfony4 – Jenkins – and many more..

Why join the K&C team and this project?

• German IT Company with HQ in Munich
• 20+ years in Europe
• Competitive compensation;
• Talented team without hierarchies
• 20 workdays of vacation per year, 15 days of paid sick leave;
• Fulltime remote work possible; as is being based in one of our offices in Krakow, Baku, or Sofia, if you prefer an office environment or hybrid
• Flexible working schedule.

Sounds interesting? We are excited to get to know you!