Identity Provider Operations Engineer

About the role

Maintaining secure, resilient, and highly available authentication and access management systems is critical to supporting enterprise users and protecting mission systems from unauthorized access. You’ll support the ongoing operations, maintenance, sustainment, and troubleshooting of enterprise IAM and federation services in support of Zero Trust initiatives and mission-critical environments.

Responsibilities

• Monitor identity systems
• Support daily IAM operations
• Resolve authentication and federation issues
• Maintain access management services
• Ensure compliance with organizational security policies and standards
• Support user lifecycle management processes
• Apply patches and configuration updates
• Assist with operational automation and service improvement initiatives

Requirements

• Experience administering, supporting, and maintaining identity platforms such as PingFederate, Okta, or Entra ID in an enterprise operations environment
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting authentication and federation protocols including SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect (OIDC)
• Experience troubleshooting SAML, OAuth, and OIDC integrations, token exchanges, assertion mismatches, and federation connectivity issues
• Experience using scripting or automation languages such as Java, JavaScript, Python, PowerShell, or Groovy to support operational tasks, automation, and maintenance activities, and with system monitoring, operational documentation, patching, and maintenance procedures for IAM services
• Experience working with RESTful APIs to support identity platform integrations, operational automation, and user lifecycle management processes
• Experience supporting integrations and synchronization with Active Directory (AD) or LDAP environments

Qualifications

• Knowledge of Zero Trust architectures and operational support of multifactor authentication (MFA) and password-less authentication solutions
• Ability to diagnose and resolve complex identity and federation operational issues in production environments

Skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

Benefits

• Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
• Paid leave
• Professional development
• Tuition assistance
• Work-life programs
• Dependent care
• Recognition awards program

Pay

$86,800.00 to $198,000.00 (annualized USD)

Schedule

Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs. Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits.

Contact

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