Identity Provider (IdP) Engineer

About the role

Capgemini Government Solutions (CGS) LLC is seeking a highly skilled Identity Provider (IdP) Engineer to join our Zero Trust Architecture team. In this role, you will be the primary architect and administrator for identity services that form the "new perimeter" of our enterprise. You will bridge the gap between traditional networking and modern identity-centric security, ensuring that every access request is fully authenticated, authorized, and encrypted.

Capgemini is a global business and technology transformation partner, helping organizations to accelerate their dual transition to a digital and sustainable world, while creating tangible impact for enterprises and society. It is a responsible and diverse group of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong over 55-year heritage, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to unlock the value of technology to address the entire breadth of their business needs. It delivers end-to-end services and solutions leveraging strengths from strategy and design to engineering, all fueled by its market leading capabilities in AI, generative AI, cloud and data, combined with its deep industry expertise and partner ecosystem. The Group reported 2024 global revenues of €22.1 billion.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement identity-based access control policies that adhere to Zero Trust principles (Never Trust, Always Verify).
• Lead the deployment, configuration, and optimization of PingFederate and PingAccess to provide seamless SSO and attribute-based access control (ABAC).
• Manage the full lifecycle of Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM), including automated provisioning and complex directory integrations.
• Collaborate with the SOC and Network teams to integrate identity signals into our broader security monitoring and incident response workflows.
• Act as the subject matter expert for integrating PingFederate as the core Identity Provider (IdP) with third-party Zero Trust ecosystem components, including Privileged Access Manager (PAM), Master User Record (MUR) and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA).
• Create and maintain authentication policies, including Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Risk-Based Authentication (RBA).