Ekman Associates, Inc. is a Southern California based company focused on the following services: Management Consulting, Professional Staffing Solutions, Executive Recruiting and Managed Services.
Summary:
The Software Engineer will have strong technical experience with Authentication services (SSO and MFA) through multiple cloud platforms as well as on premise AD environments. A successful candidate will bring deep technical and software expertise, strong business acumen and judgment. Utilizing your experience with on-prem and Cloud IAM services you will work with the team to transition applications to Azure making use of Identity Federation protocols such as SAML2, WS-Federation, Kerberos, OAuth2 and OpenID Connect (OIDC).
Key Experience:
- IAM concepts & best practices
Responsibilities:
- Ability to enable application movement to modern authentication in the multi-cloud environment through use of SSO and Federation.
- Design, develop, deploy, integrate and support Single Sign On ( SSO ) using DevOps model for all types of devices. Develop, maintain, support and troubleshoot in house and vendor applications hosted in Private/Public Clouds, Analyze Server side and client Side? SSO ?logs to debug issues.
- Plan and develop security measures to safeguard information against accidental or unauthorized modification, destruction, or disclosure.
- Work with management and other personnel to identify security best practices and applies a risk-based approach to information security covering the security aspects of Cloud & On-premise IAM services with a focus on Authentication services (SSO and MFA) through tools such as SailPoint/Saviynt, Azure and AWS Cognito.
- Produce and implement enterprise-level designs for Azure authentication and on prem AD, as wells as AWS Cognito authentication for global initiatives.
- Collaborate with infrastructure and operations teams to provide architectural and technical guidance.
- Lead steady state and continuous improvement efforts for Authentication technologies for globally diverse solutions.
- Coordinate between infrastructure, application, and threat monitoring teams to ensure the timely and successful delivery of solutions.
- Provide engineering support for the Identity and Authentication team.
- Support the enterprise SSO platform to enable a secure and enhanced authentication experience for enterprise users.
- Knowledge and experience with information security, Authorization and Authentication systems, infrastructure and implementation techniques is a key component to this role.
Job Requirements:
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Network Security or related field
- Demonstrated excellent technical writing skills and project/program management experience
- IT Certifications including Microsoft Certifications, CISSP, SANS, Security+, and ITIL v3 Foundation certifications
- 7+ years of experience in Information Security
- Strong hands-on experience with SSO & MFA, AD Connect, SAML, OAuth.
- Strong hands-on experience with industry standard SSO technologies and protocols (OAuth, OpenID Connect, FIDO, SCIM, LDAP, SAML)
- Expertise in Identity and Authentication solutions such as Active Directory, SailPoint, Saviynt, or Siteminder
- Knowledge of LDAP and Active Directory services, MFA, Risk based authentication and privileged access management
- Holistic view of IAM (Authentication and Authorization Data, Endpoint Security, Network Security, Policy Engine)
- Ability to utilize various programming or scripting languages such as Shell scripting, Perl, Python, JavaScript, HTML and PowerShell
- Understanding of API design concepts, RESTful Services, and modern application interaction patterns
- Familiarity with deployments and integration of IAM solutions within the cloud (Azure, AWS, GCP)
- Experience in deploying large-scale, global projects and programs
- Familiarity with IT security and risk management practices
Qualified Candidates Only: If you wish to learn more about this opportunity and additional qualifications/responsibilities, please submit your resume. To learn more about Ekman Associates, Inc. please visit our website at www.ekmanassociates.com.