IAM Engineer

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 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 Power Shell 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.