About the Opportunity
Reporting directly to the Director of Information Security & Identity Management, this role contributes to the Identity and Access Management program at Northeastern University’s global campus system.
You will be responsible for contributing to IAM component designs, IAM service development, service integration, implementation, and operations of university-wide IAM services for all faculty, staff, students, parents, alumni, vendors, and University technology partners.
As an IAM engineer you will be knowledgeable and have demonstrable experience with the following : Modern approaches to IAM with Microsoft Azure / AD / SSO, OAuth, OpenID, and SAML;
expert knowledge of identity provisioning with IGAs (e.g. Saviynt); Role-based access control. Experience with DevOps / SRE methodologies and background in automation / IaC / GitOps.
This is a Hybrid position, 3 days onsite is required.
Regrettably, the university is unable to work sponsor for this role, now or in the future.
Qualifications
The minimum education, experience, and skills required to perform the job successfully.
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems or Computer Science and / or equivalent combination of education and work experience.
- Five years of professional IT experience , preferably within the domain areas of Identity and Access Management.
- Expert knowledge of Microsoft’s AzureAD / SSO / Active Directory and SAML with a strong focus on access control via RBAC / ABAC.
- Well-versed in the information security issues affecting educational entities and cloud-based application service providers.
- Ability to assess computer systems and business processes for security risks.
- Excellent interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills, including formal report writing experience.
- Experience working in Agile teams with Scrum / Kanban / etc.
- Experience with coding in Python or Groovy to transfer, manipulate identity data, and accomplish process automation.
- Experience with Saviynt’s IGA platform.
- Experience with Grouper and Shibboleth.
Responsibilities
- Responsible for technical delivery and integration for authentication, authorization, identity provisioning, and identity governance and administration (IGA) solutions across all University systems, audience types, and applications.
- Without direct supervision, perform tasks required to ensure customer satisfaction and departmental SLA's are achieved.
- Provide Tier 1, 2, and 3 support to customers on the services provided by the department.
- Provide accurate and effective documentation on all issues and problems.
- Provide training and documentation to Tier 1 support and other department team members on emerging issues.
- Responsible for IAM system production support (may require outside of regular hours as needed)
Position Type
Information Technology