Identity Access Management Consultant - Senior

Title: Identity Access Management - Specialist

Location: Boston MA (5 days onsite from day
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Duration: 6 Months

Key

Skills:

Client is specifically looking for someone with a strong developer/engineering mindset and hands-on experience with modern IAM concepts, including Zero Trust identity, automation-first approaches, AI security, and workload identity patterns such as SPIFFE/SPIRE, etc.

Job Description

12+ years of hands-on experience in Identity and Access Management and cloud automation, particularly within the Microsoft ecosystem.
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills for complex infrastructure and identity-related issues.
Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Deep experience with Microsoft Entra , including Conditional Access, Identity Governance, and Privileged Identity Management (PIM).
Familiarity with Microsoft 365 services such as Exchange Online, Defender, Purview, Sentinel, Intune, and related platforms.
Strong automation and scripting skills using Power Shell, Azure CLI, and Microsoft Graph API.
Working knowledge of Azure services including Function Apps and Logic Apps.
Experience onboarding and managing enterprise applications in Azure Entra .
Advanced knowledge of SSO protocols including OAuth2, OpenID Connect, and SAML.

Experience with privileged access tools (Azure PIM, Cyber Ark), secrets management (Hashi Corp Vault or Azure Key Vault), and workload identity patterns (SPIFFE & SPIRE).
Familiarity with Non-Human Identity (NHI) governance, including service accounts and AI agents; exposure to policy-as-code frameworks such as OPA/Rego.
Good-to-have familiarity with Microsoft Purview for DLP and data classification.
Strong understanding of multi-factor authentication and FIDO
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Familiarity with IT security frameworks and compliance standards.
Knowledge of logging, monitoring, and alerting practices for identity and access events.
Basic understanding of email security and DNS.

Experience with backup and recovery strategies for identity-related services.
Understanding of Zero Trust Architecture principles.
Familiarity with Jira and Confluence.
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

Job Responsibilities

Lead enterprise-wide IAM standardization, including identity lifecycle management, access governance, and policy enforcement across global regions.
Drive automation across IAM to streamline administration and improve user experience.
Support onboarding of enterprise applications into Azure Entra , including Single Sign-On (SSO), Conditional Access, and role-based access control (RBAC).
Enhance privileged access management and implement scalable monitoring, alerting, and auditability to support a secure, geographically distributed workforce.
Collaborate with IT, Networking, and Security teams to troubleshoot identity-related issues and support global infrastructure initiatives.
Advance Zero Trust Identity Fabric principles such as continuous verification, least-privilege access, and identity-aware policy enforcement across users, devices, workloads, and non-human identities.
Build identity automation with a Dev Ops mindset, including scripting, pipeline development, and engineering custom tooling from scratch rather than only configuration.