IAM Consultant(OKTA)
Information Security
, Information Technology
Canada, US
$80-$100 for Contract, 120,000 - 150,000 for Full-time / month
Job Description
IAM Consultant(OKTA)
OKTA Essential Responsibilities:
- Manage & deliver a large-scale mission critical enterprise IAM (OKTA, LDAP) platform
- Work in an Onshore-Offshore model to deliver a 24X7 coverage support
- Implementing, integrating and supporting Okta’s cloud technologies into client’s IAM environment.
- Develop and maintain an access management integration process detailing a technical integration template and procedure
- Troubleshoot and resolve issues efficiently during migration, onboarding and BAU activities.
- Support technical integration needs (design and development) that facilitate connectivity between SSO, directory, and provisioning tools
- Work with the Access Management Solutions Lead to validate integration needs with proposed technical solution
- Successfully transition support and knowledge of new application integrations and environment upgrades to SSO operations team
- Uses a comprehensive understanding of multiple IAM, operational and security technologies, to lead the analysis, design and deployment of IAM architecture and other security projects to proactively identify and mitigate organizational risk, streamline access management activities, ensure resources are secured, and adapt to changing threat landscapes.
Qualifications/Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or related field, with a minimum of 8 years of experience in Information Security
- Hands on experience integrating applications with Okta SSO, MFA, API Management is must
- Strong Operational support experience managing large enterprise IAM platform is critical
- Minimum of 3 years of operational experience with the following product offerings: Okta , Oracle Unified Directory and CA Siteminder/SSO (12.52+), including implementation, installation, configuration & administration of various components.
- Intimately familiar with IAM related protocols such as SAML, SCIM, OpenID and OAuth.
- Minimum 3 years Unix/windows scripting and Perl experience
- Good understanding of Network, storage, load balancer, firewall, Citrix, VMware
- Experience in managing a team of 10+ people (preferably in a onshore-offshore model)
Desired Characteristics:
- Strong understanding of cloud computing architecture, technical design and implementations, including Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery models.
- Working knowledge of Cloud Authentication and Access management Services.
- Experience migrating legacy header-based applications to modern authentication standards such as SAML, OIDC, OAuth.
- Strong analytical and clear-thinking skills
- Excellent team skills and self-motivated