Security Analyst –Identity and Access Management (IAM)HIGHLIGHTS Location: REMOTE
Position Type: Contract to Hire
Hourly / Salary:
Based on Experience
Residency Status:
US Citizen or Green Card Holder ONLY
Our client is looking for a Security Analyst –IAM to join their team!
Job Summary: The Security Analyst for Identity and Access Management (IAM) is responsible for supporting the maintenance of clients Security Program with a focus on the company’s identity systems and single sign-on systems (SSO). This includes enhancing the information security management framework, supporting the user lifecycle management process, and monitoring for internal and external threats.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: - Implement, at management direction, and monitor a strategic, comprehensive enterprise information security management system to ensure the integrity, confidentiality and availability of information owned, controlled, or processed by the organization.
- Deploy and support IAM systems to facilitate user life-cycle management, identity and access governance, and Privileged Account Management (PAM).
- Assist and administer the deployment of the Okta identity solution, demonstrating proficiency with SSO protocols, workflows, and MFA with Okta.
- Provide operational support for IAM products, including day-to-day management of systems and incident/support ticket management.
- Experience troubleshooting problems across various environment types ranging from on-premises, cloud, and SaaS.
- Partner closely with other security team members, as well as those on other IT teams and operating companies to drive IAM maturity and awareness.
- Monitor the external threat environment for emerging threats and advise relevant stakeholders on the appropriate courses of action.
- Manage, upgrade, and maintain servers and applications for information security tools.
- Track, manage and follow-up on existing security issues.
- Support and maintain Security Program.
- Special projects as assigned.
Qualifications: - Five years minimum experience in Microsoft Active Directory (Preferably in a multi domain environment).
- Three years minimum experience in Microsoft Entra ID.
- Three years’minimum experience with Okta Access Management or similar single sign-on systems.
- One year minimum experience with Privileged Access Management systems.
- Experience and/or thorough understanding in one or more of the following technologies/languages: Microsoft Azure, MFA, SSO, RADIUS, LDAP, SAML, OAuth, OpenID, WS-FED, REST API, or PowerShell.
- MCSA, MCSE, CISSP or GSEC certification is preferable.
- Ability to effectively communicate and interact with personnel at all levels.
- Strong project management skills.
- Must be capable of delivering a very high level of customer service.
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