SSO MFA Sr. SME
- Job Location: Plano, Texas
- Job Duration: Full Time / Hybrid (4 days in office or whenever it’s required)
** NO SPONSORSHIP FROM THE CLIENT **
Job Description
Overview
This role is based out of Plano, Texas and requires coming into the office.
The Identity Access Management (IAM) Engineer will be the senior technical SME in the IAM organization and is responsible to solution, design, implement and support access management solutions in distributed OnPrem & Cloud infrastructure. Skilled in troubleshooting complex technical issues. Works closely with enterprise architects to ensure adequate security solutions are in place to mitigate identified risks sufficiently, while meeting business objectives and regulatory requirements. Provides technical leadership and delivers complex projects.
Responsibilities
- Provides subject matter expertise in designing, solutioning and implementing access management requirements.
- Provides advanced engineering expertise to automate and administrator identity and compliance requirements.
- Working with Cybersecurity and API teams to document best practices, authentication patterns and decision criteria for authentication and authorization.
- Hands on execution of identity management roadmaps and technology enhancements.
- Support program goals and objectives leveraging expert Okta experience and skills.
- Performs highly specialized and technical tasks associated with the most current and cutting-edge technologies.
- Creates and maintains standards surrounding documentation related to identity processes, and infrastructure.
- Provide level 3 production support to help diagnose and troubleshoot production issues.
- Participate in incident response and security incident investigations related to IAM systems.
- Adapt the architecture to evolving security conditions and support security guidelines.
- Evaluate and recommend IAM technologies, tools, and vendors to support our organization's evolving security and business needs.
- Develop and deliver applicable documentation, training, and knowledge transfer to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Implement CIAM solutions from requirement gathering, design to delivery.
- Provide technical leadership in designing, configuring, and troubleshooting IAM solutions.
- Evaluate and hands on implement automation capabilities to simplify processes and deliver value/cost savings to the business.
- Foster the Agile DevOps culture through the latest toolset to improve customer satisfaction through rapid, continuous delivery.
Qualifications
- 10+ years of overall IT experience
- 9+ years of hands-on experience in authentication architecture, Solutioning and design roles
- 9+years of hands-on experience with Okta and/or relevant access management tools
- 6+ years of scripting (power shell, Python) and development (Java, J2EE, JavaScript, React, Rest API) experience.
- 4+ years working with Agile and DevOps tools and methodologies.
- Minimum Okta Certified Administrator: Okta Certified Consultant and/or Okta Certified Developer preferred.
- BS/BA degree or equivalent experience
- CISSP / CIAM Certification is a plus.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Extensive experience in solutioning, designing and implementing authentication services
- Broader IAM domain experience with focus on information security
- Deep technical expertise in solutioning and integrating B2B, B2C applications with CIAM.
- Strong expertise in designing solutions with the standard IAM platforms like Okta, PingFederate in enabling single sign-on services for both cloud and on-prem applications.
- Handson experience in building SSO solutions with various protocols like SAML, OAuth, OIDC, and headers-based applications and platforms, preferably Azure AD, Ping, and SiteMinder
- Strong handson experience in designing and architecting Consumer identity and access management solutions
- Strong understanding of the latest security principles like zero trust and passwordless authentication to implement new standards in the authentication model.
- Must have working knowledge of Okta Lifecycle Management and Administrative APIs
- Experience with solutions like CyberArk, Beyond Trust, RSA or comparable products.
- Excellent understanding of REST integration concepts
- Experience in directory services like Oracle LDAP, and AD
- Experience working with cloudbased authentication solutions (e.g., AWS Cognito, Azure AD, Okta).
- Strong handson development experience Java, Node js, React, Sprint boot, REST API and Java script.
- Hands on experience with JavaScript, Python, Ruby, PowerShell, or other scripting languages preferred.
- Experience building CICD pipelines in Azure or AWS
- Experience in automating application deployment building CICD pipelines using Ansible and terraform.
- Experience in Monitoring tools like Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, or similar tools
- Experience with container technologies Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience with Linux and Windows platforms, middleware, Apache, and load balancers
- Experience developing workflows, custom connectors, and troubleshooting complex issues.
- Experience with Agile and DevOps tools and methodologies
- Minimum Okta Certified Administrator: Okta Certified Consultant and/or Okta Certified Developer preferred.
- CISSP / CIAM Certification is a plus.
- Experience in SiteMinder is preferred.
