IAM/RBAC Engineer

Hybrid – 4 days onsite in either Pittsburgh, PA or NYC, NY, or fully remote.

About the role

Our client seeks an IAM/RBAC Engineer with deep experience in Microsoft Entra ID and 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 the contract duration.

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 smartcards 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.

Requirements

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, 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.
• Exposure to application identity design patterns and CI/CD secret management controls.
• Background in supporting audit readiness for access controls in cloud environments.

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits
• 401k with company matching
• Life insurance

Pay

$80.00 to $90.00/hr. W2