Senior Identity Services Engineer
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Location: New York, NY 10025
Description:
Title: Senior Identity Services Engineer
Location: New York City, NY
Job Type: FTE/Permanent
Position Summary:
Responsible for operating and maintaining the portfolio of access management and federation products. Duties include application integration, implementation of access control systems, data analytics, report generation, incident investigation/remediation, server administration, and team mentorship. This role performs both operational and strategic duties with the capability to serve in an architectural capacity, providing essential information and planning for new technology and policy deployments.
Key Responsibilities:
Required Qualifications:
Preferred Qualifications:
Location: New York City, NY
Job Type: FTE/Permanent
Position Summary:
Responsible for operating and maintaining the portfolio of access management and federation products. Duties include application integration, implementation of access control systems, data analytics, report generation, incident investigation/remediation, server administration, and team mentorship. This role performs both operational and strategic duties with the capability to serve in an architectural capacity, providing essential information and planning for new technology and policy deployments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and support enterprise SSO solutions (e.g., PingFederate, Azure AD, Okta).
- Maintain and enhance access management platforms and federation infrastructure.
- Lead application integrations into existing SSO frameworks using SAML, OAuth2, and OIDC.
- Implement and support Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and modern authentication methods.
- Support and improve authentication strategies across the organization.
- Collaborate with security, application owners, and infrastructure teams to deliver secure identity solutions.
- Troubleshoot complex authentication and federation issues across multiple environments.
- Participate in IAM roadmap planning and contribute to architectural decisions.
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to IAM engineers.
- Support governance efforts related to authentication, authorization, and access control standards.
Required Qualifications:
- 5+ years of Identity & Access Management experience with a strong focus on SSO and federation.
- Deep technical knowledge of:
- PingFederate, Azure AD, Okta, ADFS
- Federation protocols including SAML, OIDC, and OAuth2
- LDAP, Active Directory, SCIM
- Proficiency in scripting and development with PowerShell, Python, and Java
- Experience working with REST APIs for IAM services; familiarity with Postman or similar tools
- Familiarity with OGNL expression language for customizing PingFederate policies
- Front-end UX design and customization using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- Basic Linux administration skills for maintaining and managing IAM infrastructure
- Working knowledge of certificates and PKI (X.509, certificate chains, signing, encryption, keystore management)
- Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across application, identity, and network layers
- Understanding of modern identity concepts such as Zero Trust, adaptive authentication (risk-based, device/user signals), and conditional access.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Hands-on experience with the Ping Identity platform, particularly:
- PingFederate, PingOne, PingID, PingDirectory
- Experience with MFA and Passwordless/FIDO2/WebAuthn authentication strategies.
- Experience building and configuring enterprise SSO applications in Azure AD / Entra ID.
- Exposure to IAM orchestration platforms such as PingOne DaVinci or similar tools.
- Experience supporting cloud identity integrations (Azure, AWS, GCP).
- Familiarity with enterprise SSO in hybrid environments (on-prem and cloud-based apps).
- Strong documentation and communication skills.
- Comfortable collaborating across technical and non-technical teams.
- Ability to lead projects and mentor junior engineers.