Application Developer Job Sheffield area,England UK,Software Development

We are looking for a highly skilled Application Developer with strong expertise in identity API development data ingestion and transformation and event driven Pub Sub architectures This role focuses on building secure scalable identity and access workflows across Google Cloud Platform integrating identity services with custom APIs Pub Sub pipelines and cloud native applications
You will collaborate closely with tech leads Cloud Security Dev Ops and Application Engineering teams to design and implement robust IAM automation identity lifecycle workflows and secure service integrations that support enterprise level cloud and Identity operations

Key Responsibilities

1

Identity Orchestration
Design and implement identity flows for provisioning deprovisioning and orchestration of identity lifecycle events
Integrate with Cloud Identity Services Service Now 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
2

API Development
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 such as
oautomated identity lifecycle tasks
oaccess review event triggers
ologging and audit forwarding
osecurity anomaly detection
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
4

Automation Infrastructure as Code
Build and maintain Terraform modules for IAM API services Pub Subtopics workloads and permissions
Automate deployment and validation of identity and access configurations via CICD pipelines
Implement automated testing for IAM policies and API behaviour
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

Required Skills Experience Technical Expertise

Proven experience with modern identity orchestration platforms Auth0 Actions Okta Workflows WorkOS or SlashID
Strong programming skills in Python Go or Nodejs 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
Soft Skills
Analytical thinker with strong debugging and rootcause 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 fastpaced environment
Experience with additional identity providers Okta Azure AD Ping Identity
Familiarity with Kubernetes GKE RBAC workload identity
Experience using Secret Manager Vault or other secrets management tools
Knowledge of compliance frameworks SOC2 ISO 27001 PCI HIPAA
Education
Bachelors degree in computer science Engineering Information Security or equivalent handson experience