IAM Engineer

London Source: WhatJobs

£90,000–£120,000

Role: Assistant Vice President – IAM Engineer

Location: London, City - 3-4 days in office.

Details: Initial 6 month contract, with guaranteed conversion to perm within that period.

Requirements:

Extensive background working with enterprise identity platforms, with strong practical knowledge of Microsoft Active Directory and Entra ID across hybrid environments.
Experience supporting identity services within large and geographically distributed organisations, where availability, security and access controls are business-critical.
Strong knowledge of modern authentication and federation technologies, including SAML, OAuth, Kerberos, SSO, MFA and Conditional Access.
Comfortable working across traditional data-centre based directory infrastructure alongside Microsoft cloud identity services, including the challenges involved in maintaining a hybrid environment.
Previous involvement with application identity integrations , including bringing new applications onto corporate authentication platforms and removing legacy integrations when required.
Strong troubleshooting capability across directory, authentication and access issues, with the confidence to investigate complex problems and provide technical direction through to resolution.
Experience with Microsoft federation and certificate technologies, particularly ADFS and ADCS , would be highly valuable.
Familiarity with identity-focused security practices, including ITDR , access reviews, privileged access considerations and identifying potentially suspicious identity activity.
Experience with directory auditing, monitoring or recovery platforms, with exposure to Quest technologies such as Change Auditor or Recovery Manager advantageous.
Strong automation mindset with the ability to use PowerShell and/or KQL to simplify repetitive administration, improve controls and increase operational efficiency.
Experience overseeing the reliability of critical identity services, including reviewing platform performance, availability, alerts and operational trends.