Customer Authentication Engineer III

Kforce's client in Birmingham, AL is seeking a Customer Authentication Engineer III to join the Authentication Core Team supporting digital authentication, identity orchestration, and customer onboarding initiatives across enterprise digital platforms.

Summary:

This team focuses on enhancing secure authentication experiences using modern identity technologies and cloud-based authentication solutions within an Agile development environment.

Key Responsibilities:

* Support and enhance enterprise authentication and identity platforms

* Develop and troubleshoot authentication integrations and workflows

* Support authentication orchestration initiatives using platforms such as Okta

* Improve customer onboarding and account authentication experiences

* Partner with engineering, security, and application teams on authentication initiatives

* Analyze and resolve authentication-related production issues
* 5+ years of software engineering, authentication engineering, or related experience

Strong experience with:

* OAuth 2.0

* OIDC

* SAML/SAML 2.0

* JWT

* MFA/SSO

* Experience with authentication and identity management platforms

* Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills

* Experience working in Agile environments

Preferred Experience:

* Java preferred (Python acceptable)

* Experience with Okta or similar identity orchestration platforms

* Familiarity with FIDO/Web Authn and risk-based authentication

* AWS and/or Azure experience

* Banking or financial services background preferred

* Experience with Git Hub Copilot is a plus