Alation Platform Engineer: IAM, SSO & Cloud Migrations
Listed on 2026-10-29
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IT/Tech
Cloud Computing: Infrastructure & Operations, Information Security & Data Protection, Cybersecurity
Job Title:
Alation Platform Support
Key Responsibilities
- Manage users roles groups and assign required privileges
- Work with Vendor to understand roadmap influence Alation roadmap to include use cases feature requests
- Schedule MDE Data Sampling QLI Onboard new projects into Alation platform
- Create and manage Alation domains sub domain documents hub
- Setup new connector or data source
- Configure SSO SAML Authentication for Alation platform
- Sync LDAP with security groups roles
- Upload data dictionaries for bulk curation through GUI
- Coordinating with Alation vendor for any product bugs capabilities feature requests and bug fixes
- Prepare and maintain a tracker for configuration changes and performance tweaks
- Review Alation API access and grant appropriate access case by case
- Configure Lexicon Alli Bots for automatic curation of Business Technical terms
- Support projects from migrating from on Prem to cloud
- Perform platform upgrades apply patches and bug fixes
- Create support and change management groups
- Assist Data stewards for issues guidance
- Define security model and enforce security best practices
- Onboard Alation platform to Asset Management
- Work with TQ to qualify the Alation OnPrem Cloud platforms
- Maintain security Firewall rules
Required Qualifications
- 12+ Years of experience required
- Mandatory skills:
Alation, SSO SAML Authentication, GUI, LDAP
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