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# IAM Operations Engineer

- **Company:** ASCENT SERVICES GROUP LLC
- **Location:** McLean, VA, United States
- **Salary:** $135,200.0 - $156,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Active Directory, Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, Cloud Computing Security, Cloud Engineering, Continuous Integration, Identity and Access Management, Reliability Engineering, Software Vulnerability Management, Datadog, Cloud Monitoring, Git, Cloudformation, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Splunk, New Relic (SaaS), Jenkins
- **Published:** July 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=e92cf1381d9ec5fe

## About the Role

* Experience in Infrastructure Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Cloud Operations.

 * Strong hands-on experience with AWS.

 * Experience with AWS CloudFormation, Jenkins, and Git.

 * Strong knowledge of Active Directory and IAM.

 * Experience with Splunk, New Relic, or Datadog.

 * Strong understanding of cloud security, vulnerability remediation, and production support.

 * Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and collaboration skills., * Jenkins
 * Git
 * AWS
 * Splunk
 * New Relic
 * Troubleshooting
 * Cloud Engineer

## Description

We are seeking a IAM Operations Engineer to support enterprise cloud infrastructure, automation, and operational excellence. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in AWS, Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD automation, Active Directory, and cloud monitoring, with experience maintaining secure, reliable, and highly available production environments., * Manage and support AWS cloud infrastructure and production environments.

 * Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using AWS CloudFormation.

 * Develop and support CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins and Git.

 * Administer Active Directory and identity management solutions.

 * Monitor infrastructure using Splunk, New Relic, or Datadog and proactively resolve issues.

 * Perform infrastructure automation, vulnerability remediation, and operational support.

 * Troubleshoot production issues and perform root cause analysis.

 * Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure infrastructure reliability and security.


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