Staff Engineer - Identity and Access Management

About the role

The Staff Engineer - Identity and Access Management maintains enterprise information security policies, technical standards, guidelines, procedures, and other elements of an infrastructure necessary to support information security in compliance with established company policies, regulatory requirements, and generally accepted information security controls. This role requires associates to be in-office 1-2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.

Responsibilities

• Develop the IAM framework and platform for identity-centric control pane for Agentic
• Develop a unified identity platform that centralizes access management, scales with enterprise demand, and simplifies governance while enabling flexibility for future evolution
• Provides first level engineering design functions and trouble resolution
• Led or plans implementations for access management and network security technologies
• Develops testing plans to ensure quality of implementation
• Leads the investigation and reporting of data security events and incidents
• Maintains security incident response plans
• Represents major upgrades and business system replacements in change control
• Recommends changes and updates to strategy
• Leads level 1 & 2 incident recoveries
• May organize the efforts of other analysts as part of incident recovery
• leads root cause analysis efforts

Requirements

• Requires BS/BA degree in Information Technology or related field of study and a minimum of 5 years experience in systems support, system administration, system engineering, system security, access management, network security, network communications, computer networking, telecommunications, systems development and management, hardware, software, and/or data
• Requires experience in planning and designing highly complex systems

Preferred Skills, Experiences and Competencies

• Expertise in architecting complex Identity and Access Management (IAM) platforms and solutions
• Strong proficiency in Java, Spring ecosystem, and microservices architecture
• Strong experience implementing authentication protocols like OAuth, OIDC and SAML
• Strong experience with cloud migrations (On-Prem to AWS)
• Deep understanding of AWS services and cloud-native architectures
• Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, Docker, and Kubernetes
• Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Helm)
• Familiarity with RBAC products and integrations (SailPoint, Workday)
• Experience facilitating cross-functional planning and requirements gathering
• Working knowledge of Python scripting and Unix/Linux environments
• Technical security certifications (e.g. Systems Security Certified Practitioner) strongly preferred

Benefits

At Elevance Health, we offer a range of market-competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, Paid Time Off, and incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few.

Pay

Compensation is competitive and commensurate with experience.

Schedule

This role requires associates to be in-office 1-2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office.