IAM Cloud Engineering Analyst at TEKsystems

Skills Required

Seeking someone who can document, speak to the technical needs, standards and controls.

• Minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience with Identity and Access Management Security for Cloud implementations.
• 5 years’ experience with IDaaS platforms such as Ping, Sailpoint, EntraID, AWS Identity Center.
• 5 years’ experience with IAM for Cloud Datacenters such as AWS, Azure, GCP, in native cloud and hybrid configurations.
• 5 years’ experience with IAM for IaaS networking, storage, servers, databases and any operating systems, Linux, Windows.
• Willing to go onsite 3 days a week in either Chicago, Denver, or Washington DC

Additional skills needed along with these:

• Knowledge of Identity and Access management for Application Development, GitHub, CircleCi.
• Knowledge of legacy Identity platforms such as Active Directory, LDAP, Kerberos, LDAP, Radius, OpenLDAP, OpenDJ.
• Knowledge of Identity federation platforms and their protocols such as Oauth, OpenID, SAML, WS-Fed, etc.
• Experience working with frequently utilized IAM vendor solutions such as Crowdstrike, BeyondTrust, Identity Governance Administration (IGA) products
• Must have experience capturing requirements and documenting in visual formats, including flowcharts, process maps, flow diagrams, decision trees, mockups/wireframes, relationship diagrams, etc.
• Must have experience with management, adherence to risk frameworks, policies, standards, and controls.

Description

We are looking for a IAM Cloud Engineering Analyst to join our team for a seven month contract to start.

Role expectations, exceptionally strong working knowledge of identity and access management (IAM) domain both business and technical, risk identification and mitigation, as well as management of controls in a cloud environment. This role is highly visible and requires frequent interaction with executive management and key stakeholders. The role will be responsible for Identity and Access Management (IAM) Security for Cloud. The IAM function is aligned to provide a centralized governance model, driving consistency through end-to-end horizontal risk oversight as well as vertical functional capabilities that provide comprehensive subject matter expertise on all IAM systems and services. In support of the Cloud Security program and delivery of an operational framework the following applied knowledge and experience with associated, policies, tools, configurations, and rules, needed to deploy solutions that manage the security of cloud platforms and reduce risk to workloads in the cloud. Result-oriented, business focused, and successful at interfacing across multiple organizational units, at various levels.

Responsibilities

- Responsible for ensuring that IAM technology and controls for Cloud are implemented, monitored, and adhered to established IAM standards.

- Responsible for achieving intended Cloud IAM outcomes through the developments and enhancements of applicable standards, processes, data elements, oversight, and governance for IAM for their Cloud infrastructure systems and applications.

- Appropriately assess risk when business and technology decisions are made, demonstrating risk management mindset and practices to safeguard their reputation, its clients, and assets by driving compliance with applicable laws, rules, and regulations, adhering to their Policy and Standards.

- Apply industry IAM best practices, templates, and documentation while also proposing improvements based on practical knowledge.

- Influence technology and platform owners to build/implement necessary IAM controls into the Cloud environments to create a smooth and effective Cloud IAM adoption experience.

- Engage with Product Managers and Architects to comprehend the strategic technology roadmap, which dictates the need for modernized security principles.

- Ability to consult with the business to identify gaps and governance issues, leveraging own domain expertise to find effective solutions.

- Provide IAM subject matter expertise within the business/technical domain to support scope and requirement decisions.

- Perform impact analysis of modifications or enhancements and work closely with the development team(s) to refine the requirements into specifications that can be implemented.

- Ensure the solution meets expectations through comprehensive UAT/QA testing of the functionality, quality and that the delivery timeline/adoption plan is fit for purpose.

- Create required documentation, playbooks, job aides, workflows, and training material as part of deployment and adoption activities.

- Support the design and updating of new and existing controls, including streaming and automation of reporting.

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.