IAM/RBAC Engineer
Job in
Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 15289, USA
Listed on 2026-08-14
Listing for:
Eliassen Group
Full Time
position Listed on 2026-08-14
Job specializations:
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IT/Tech
Cybersecurity, Information Security & Data Protection
Job Description & How to Apply Below
Hybrid 4 days onsite in either Pittsburgh, PA or NYC, NY or Remote
Our client seeks an IAM/RBAC Engineer with deep experience in Microsoft Entra Azure RBAC. The contractor will design, implement, and administer access controls, enforce least-privilege, and support secure, auditable access for privileged and non-privileged users. The role emphasizes scalable identity solutions, strong authenticator management, and consistent access governance and monitoring.
This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.
Rate: $80.00 to $90.00/hr. w2
JN
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Responsibilities:
- Define and maintain an enterprise role taxonomy across Azure resources.
- Map permissions to roles and enforce least-privilege access via security groups and role assignments.
- Prohibit broad, direct privilege assignments and document role-to-permission mappings and changes.
- Implement JIT workflows for elevated access with approvals and time-bound permissions.
- Establish usage restrictions and configuration norms for VPN, jump hosts, and privileged sessions.
- Define and oversee emergency access procedures, incident notification, and review.
- Configure MFA for privileged roles using strong authenticators such as smart cards or security keys.
- Provision Azure AD administrator roles for services such as SQL where applicable.
- Enforce managed identities for applications and reduce reliance on local service keys.
- Ensure authorized users safeguard issued authenticators and follow secret hygiene.
- Prevent unencrypted, embedded static credentials in code, images, and configurations.
- Author and maintain policies, standards, and operating procedures for access controls.
- Conduct periodic access reviews and support audit evidence collection.
- Maintain inventories of assets and data with baseline configurations per configuration management practices.
- Configure Azure-native monitoring and logging for identity and access events.
- Route alerts to service owners and security teams and support audit readiness.
- Validate use of emergency access through incident workflows and post-event reviews.
- Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Entra , Azure RBAC, security groups, PIM, and JIT access workflows.
- Hands-on experience with Azure Policy and resource configurations, including managed identities and Azure AD admin role provisioning.
- Familiarity with Azure monitoring and logging, AAA concepts, and integration with approval workflow tools.
- Strong understanding of least-privilege access design and access control best practices in Azure.
- Competence in baseline configuration management and accurate asset and data inventories.
- Demonstrated experience implementing least-privilege at scale and articulating Azure RBAC rationale.
- Ability to author and maintain IAM policies and procedures, perform access reviews, and support audits.
- Proven capability to implement and govern remote and elevated access and emergency access processes.
- Strong communication and documentation skills for technical writing and stakeholder coordination.
- Ability to collaborate across engineering, security, and operations teams for compliant access practices.
- Nice-to-have:
Experience integrating identity workflows with approval systems and ticketing processes. - Nice-to-have:
Exposure to application identity design patterns and CI/CD secret management controls. - Nice-to-have:
Background in supporting audit readiness for access controls in cloud environments.
Eliassen Group values transparency in our recruitment practices. Please be advised that Eliassen Group utilizes artificial intelligence (AI) tools as part of its initial application screening and hiring process. You may receive email and SMS notifications from the Eliassen Virtual Recruiting Team (, ) inviting you to complete a brief voice screening as part of your application process. These tools assist our hiring teams in different ways, including but not limited to, assistance…
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