Senior Systems Engineer

• This position is responsible for deploying authentication, authorization and identity management solutions for critical applications for one of the US largest banks.

Responsibilities:

• Provide design, configuration, implementation, and/or management of IAM systems such as Active Directory and other LDAP services, identity correlation systems, and single-sign on technologies and solutions while in compliance with service level agreements, system standards and industry best practices.

• Plan and implement directory service infrastructure changes. This may entail some or all of the following: requirements gathering, consulting, research, design, execution, security and operational configuration, patching, scripting/automation, documentation, testing and/or knowledge transfer.

• Provide second level assistance, critical thinking and oversight to resolve issues and implementations.

• Collaborate with subject matter experts across IT departments to participate in security release planning efforts or provide consultation on integrating applications with Identity service infrastructure.

• Can provide a depth of expertise in one or more of the department’s major technical Identity services or products, or can provide significant expertise across many products or services.

 

Minimum Qualifications

• Knowledge and experience normally acquired through, or equivalent to, the completion of a Bachelor’s degree, preferably in an IT field, and a minimum of 5 years of job related experience.

• Proficient in one or more of the following technologies and concepts: Active Directory, LDAP, Virtual Directory technologies, Federated Identity Management/Security Token Services, network and directory security, Privileged Access Management services.

• Knowledge or experience supporting or integrating cloud solutions such as SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, IDaaS.

• Knowledge of authentication standards (SAML, OAUTH, OpenID Connect, LDAP, Kerberos, etc.)

• Must have experience maintaining, upgrading, deploying, securing and/or designing authentication and authorization solutions such as Active Directory, LDAP, security token services and/or other identity infrastructure in enterprise level environments

 

Additional Qualifications

• Scripting skills in Python, Java, PowerShell and/or MS .NET Framework are strongly desired but not required.

• Strong security background with knowledge and experience in managing, designing or implementing security infrastructure or projects is desired but not required.

• Experience using and supporting tools for managing and troubleshooting authentication services/directories such as monitoring tools, network traffic and application logging/diagnostics, etc. is a plus

• Experience managing and/or deploying identity and access compliance, reporting and governance tools and solutions is a plus. Security and Information Technology Certifications (e.g.: AWS, Microsoft, CISSP, CCSP, etc.) is a plus.