Senior Cloud IAM Engineer; Microsoft Entra & AWS

(Remote, Costa Rica)

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UST is searching for a Senior Cloud IAM Engineer who will design, implement, and manage enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) solutions across Microsoft Entra , Azure, and AWS, ensuring secure, scalable, and resilient identity services.

• Serve as the Subject Matter Expert (SME) for Microsoft Entra  Cloud Identity Services, managing identity lifecycle, authentication, authorization, federation, and cloud-native identity integrations.
• Implement modern identity security controls including Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Conditional Access, Identity Protection, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), Access Reviews, Entitlement Management, and Single Sign-On (SSO).
• Design and support secure authentication and federation architectures using SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and FIDO2 standards to enable secure access across cloud and SaaS platforms.
• Manage cloud identity and access controls across AWS and Azure, including IAM roles, policies, federated access, workload identities, managed identities, service principals, cross-account access, and least-privilege enforcement.
• Lead governance of enterprise applications and privileged access, including Azure Enterprise Applications, App Registrations, Service Principals, AWS IAM Roles, Secrets Management, and privileged account controls.
• Drive IAM governance, compliance, and risk management through access certifications, role-based access control (RBAC), segregation of duties (SoD), audit readiness, and regulatory compliance initiatives.
• Manage identity security technologies and supporting infrastructure, including Azure Key Vault, AWS Secrets Manager, Hashi Corp Vault, certificate lifecycle management, and machine/workload identities.
• Implement and support cloud-native identity architectures, including Microsoft Entra Workload Identities, Azure Managed Identities, AWS IAM Roles, and federated access patterns to eliminate reliance on long-lived credentials.
• Partner with Cloud, Security, Infrastructure, and Compliance teams to advance Zero Trust adoption, strengthen identity security posture, remediate IAM-related findings, and support secure cloud transformation initiatives.

This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.

• Microsoft Certified:
  Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)
• Microsoft Certified:
  Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)
• Microsoft Certified:
  Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100)
• AWS Certified Security
  - Specialty
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking
  - Specialty (preferred)
• Certified Identity and Access Manager (CIAM) or equivalent IAM certification
• Skills:
  
  AWS, AWS IAM Roles, AWS Secrets Manager, Azure Managed Identity

• Employees receive eleven (11) paid holidays, two (2) weeks of paid vacation per year, and are eligible for health, dental, disability and life insurance.

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