DevOps Engineer​ (IDP/Keycloak SME)

Job Description

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is seeking a highly skilled System Engineer to serve as an Identity Provider (IDP) Subject Matter Expert (SME) by providing advanced engineering, implementation, integration, and operational support for enterprise identity and access management (IAM) services. The engineer will serve as a subject matter expert for Keycloak, IDP technologies, and Login.gov integrations, helping design, deploy, secure, automate, and maintain identity services supporting cloud-hosted applications and platforms.

Salary is based on relative years of experience

$130,000 - $150,000

Job Duties & Responsibilities

- Essential Job Functions may include (but are not limited to) the following:

The following duties are considered essential to the role. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform these essential functions

• Serve as a technical SME for Keycloak, Identity Provider (IdP), IAM, and Login.gov solutions supporting FAA cloud applications and services.
• Design, deploy, configure, upgrade, and maintain Keycloak environments across development, test, staging, and production environments.
• Configure and manage Keycloak realms, clients, roles, groups, users, service accounts, identity providers, authentication flows, and authorization policies.
• Implement and support OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML 2.0, and JWT-based authentication.
• Design and implement secure integrations between FAA applications and Login.gov for authentication and identity verification use cases.
• Support applications integrating with Login.gov using OpenID Connect/OAuth 2.0 patterns.
• Configure and troubleshoot Login.gov identity provider integrations, including client registration, redirect/return URLs, scopes, claims, authentication flows, and token handling.
• Support integration between Login.gov, Keycloak, and FAA applications where federated identity or ident