3031 IT & Software Developer jobs in the UK
Requirements
Must:
- Proven experience with modern identity orchestration platforms (Auth0 Actions, Okta Workflows, WorkOS, or SlashID)
- Strong programming skills in Python, Go, Java, or Node.js for API and microservice development
- Experience designing and deploying cloud-native APIs (Cloud Run, Cloud Functions, GKE)
- Deep understanding of event-driven architectures, Pub/Sub, message processing, and workflow automation
- Strong knowledge of OAuth2, OIDC, JWT, SAML, and identity federation patterns
- Proficiency in Terraform or equivalent IaC tools
- Experience using API gateways, reverse proxies, or service mesh technologies
- Analytical thinker with strong debugging and root-cause analysis abilities
- Clear communication skills with the ability to collaborate across engineering, security, and operations teams
- Ownership mindset, with a security-first mentality and attention to detail
- Ability to work in an agile, fast-paced environment
- Google Professional Cloud Security Engineer or Cloud Architect certification (nice-to-have)
- Experience with additional identity providers (Okta, Azure AD, Ping Identity) (nice-to-have)
- Familiarity with Kubernetes (GKE RBAC workload identity) (nice-to-have)
- Experience using Secret Manager, Vault, or other secrets management tools (nice-to-have)
- Knowledge of compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001, PCI, HIPAA) (nice-to-have)
- Bachelors degree in computer science, engineering, information security, or equivalent hands-on experience
Responsibilities
- Design and implement identity flows for provisioning, de-provisioning, and orchestration of identity lifecycle events
- Integrate with Cloud Identity Services, ServiceNow, and internal services to streamline/orchestrate identity provisioning and identity lifecycle management
- Build policy-based orchestration workflows for adaptive authentication and context-aware access using industry standards (like OPA)
- Design, build, and secure RESTful APIs and backend services supporting identity, provisioning, and governance workflows
- Integrate APIs with our new authentication service for token validation, user sessions, and application-level authorization
- Build and document internal SDKs, middleware, and shared libraries for consistent IAM logic across services
- Ensure API security, performance, reliability, resilience, and observability
- Develop pipelines where API events publish to Pub/Sub for asynchronous workflows
- Build Cloud Functions, Cloud Run microservices, or containerized services to process Pub/Sub messages
- Implement robust event-processing patterns including retries, idempotency, DLQs, and structured logging
- Build and maintain Terraform modules for IAM, API services, Pub/Sub topics, workloads, and permissions
- Automate deployment and validation of identity and access configurations via CI/CD pipelines
- Implement automated testing for IAM policies and API behavior
- Troubleshoot identity, access, and API workflow issues across distributed systems
- Provide technical guidance to engineering teams on secure API design, IAM best practices, and identity workflows
- Work with security teams during audits, compliance checks, and incident investigations
Description
We are looking for a highly skilled Application Developer with strong expertise in identity API development, data ingestion and transformation, and event-driven architectures. Our role focuses on building secure, scalable identity and access workflows across Google Cloud Platform, integrating identity services with custom APIs and cloud-native applications. You will collaborate closely with tech leads, Cloud Security, DevOps, and Application Engineering teams to design and implement robust IAM automation and identity lifecycle workflows.
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