Identity Access Engineer

Identity Access Engineer

Fully Telework

**US Citizenship Required

We are looking for an Identity Access Engineer with strong experience working in an enterprise environment with Active Directory on a project with a large government contractor. Strong communication skills are also a huge plus!

This role has the responsibility of adhering to the security and privacy requirements within security trainings and within relevant Information and Security Policy and Procedures such as Policy on Privacy and Personal Information and System Security policies.

Identity Engineer will be responsible for setting up ADDS (Active Directory Domain Service) and group policies and will need to troubleshoot access issues with federated accounts. This resource will need to have demonstrated experience in the ability to communicate with multiple teams via phone calls, screen sharing and emails.

• Provides technical expertise and analytical support to the users in solving the most complex issues with ongoing high-level support within multiple disciplines including system infrastructure operations of administration, analysis, engineering, and design.
• Provides high-level technical expertise and recommendations in assessing new IT software projects and initiatives to support and enhance existing systems.
• Recommends new or improved design solutions and processes; reviews literature, patents and current industry practices of relevance to assigned project.
• Designs and develops reusable components, code and document custom automation frameworks, maintains scripts, and updates as needed to build continuous delivery pipelines, ensuring rapid availability of the product.
• Ensures designs including architecture requirements are accurately documented.
• Leads complex systems development and design work that may include operating systems upgrades, systems enhancements logic design, I/O design, firmware development, model formulation, manufacturing and development cost projections, computer architecture analysis and design, and analog or digital systems engineering.
• Develops technical specifications based on user needs, interface control documents, test plans and procedures, analyzes configuration and processing solutions, and tests conformance to specifications.
• Analyzes business operations and processes to identify opportunities for process improvement, management control of work, or automation. Generates process and solution options and reviews with appropriate stakeholders.
• Plans and coordinates business case analysis and feasibility, including the examination of costs, benefits, and risks associated with the proposed investment or project. Recommends alternatives for solutions and highlights strategic implications.
• Serves as technical expert and liaison with clients, participating in meetings to ensure client needs are met.
• Architects, designs, implements, supports, and evaluates secure, infrastructure focused tools and services.
• Ensures that the technical infrastructure is sufficiently robust, scalable, and efficient to deliver the integrated services underlying the physical environment that supports the processes, resources, and operators required for developing, integrating, sustaining enterprise applications and support services.
• Leads high-level analytical support in the conceptualization, development, and implementation of complex, inter-linked systems.
• Responsible for all aspects of development, integration, and testing processes such as lifecycle cost analysis, design, schedules, and feasibility studies.
• Develops solutions by preparing and evaluating alternative workflow solutions, validates results by testing programmers, and ensures operation by training client personnel and providing support.
• Leads the installation, configuration, testing, and maintenance of operating systems, applications software, and system management tools.
• May act as a mentor and/or team lead for junior staff.

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, other relevant field, or equivalent relevant experience; Master's Degree preferred.
• Advanced computing certification preferred.
• 8-15 years of experience in Systems Engineering/Analysis.
• 5+ Years hands on experience working in an Enterprise environment with Active Directory. Candidate should be able to setup, configure, design the following roles/services.
• 3+ years with hands on engineering in AWS environments. Preferably an AWS Solutions Architect Certification.

Other Job Specific Skills

• Windows PowerShell scripting and automation for various windows roles and features
• Active Directory Domain Services
• Group policy
• Windows Certificate services/PKI
• MFA technologies
• ADFS - ideally federating with AWS
• Windows DNS
• Active Directory Domain Trusts
• Knowledge of FSMO Roles and functions
• RBAC design and principles
• Building, configuring domain controllers utilizing best practices

AWS Experience

• Automation: using JavaScript, PowerShell, Python (others) and Tools like Terraform and Ansible
• Cloud Formation and Lambda Functions
• IAM- strong knowledge about roles, polices, SAML, SSO solutions, Service Roles, Instance Profiles
• EC2, S3, Basic RDS, Route 53, AWS Managed AD
• AWS Organizations, SCPs
• CloudWatch and CloudTrail, AWS Parameter store, AWS Secrets
• VPC, Security groups, route tables, transit gateway, VPC Peering, NAT, Internet Gateway