The role involves engineering and supporting Entra ID, conducting project designs, reviewing disaster recovery plans, and providing technical leadership.
About the opportunity:
Cloud Security Services is seeking an experienced Entra ID engineer to supplement the existing team. Candidate must have a strong background in designing, building and maintaining complex, large scale and global identity directory services environments. This is a 4-month remote opportunity.
Responsibilities:
The candidate will be able to successfully perform the following activities:
Preferred Education
Cloud Security Services is seeking an experienced Entra ID engineer to supplement the existing team. Candidate must have a strong background in designing, building and maintaining complex, large scale and global identity directory services environments. This is a 4-month remote opportunity.
Responsibilities:
The candidate will be able to successfully perform the following activities:
- Conduct high level project design and create project charters.
- Review Entra ID disaster recovery plans for gaps and define next steps.
- Engineer, deploy, operationalize, maintain, and support tools associated with Entra ID.
- Contribute to the engineering and support of Entra ID to include.
- Conditional Access
- Authentication strengths including Passwordless & MFA.
- SSO (SAML, OAUTH & OIDC)
- Enterprise & Custom Applications
- Entra Privileged Identity Management
- Multiple Tenants to include National Cloud tenants.
- Communicare service enhancements and operational efficiency directions, features, and roadmaps aligned to the roadmap.
- Providing technical leadership to others with less knowledge or experience.
- Liaise with, train, and support operational teams.
- Assist in technology evaluations and guiding proof of concepts.
- Participate in solution design discussions.
- Senior and experienced AD and Entra ID Engineer (5-7 years) with Large, Global Enterprise Experience.
- 5+ years experience in directory services engineering.
- Excellent understanding of Entra ID Security.
- Tool Development: Experience performing POC testing and driving deployment of Entra ID service-related tools both COTS and self-developed.
- Proficient with Microsoft Graph to automate tasks and generate reports with Entra ID.
- Customer Focus: Ability to work with application owners to troubleshoot Entra service and integrations issues.
- Experience with National Cloud Entra ID tenants.
- Documentation: Ability to author, review, and edit technical documents at an Engineering and Operational level.
- Presentation and Training: Ability to conduct knowledge transfer sessions to Engineering and Operations.
- Making Recommendations: Seek and recommend improvements on existing architecture, provide recommendations to improve IT systems.
- Experience with assisting in creating of Identity and Access Management (IAM) roadmaps for global directory services.
- Understanding of modern authentication (OIDC, SAML, Kerberos, etc.)
- Understanding of Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Policy-Based Access Control (PBAC) and Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC).
- Experience with privileged access management for administering Entra ID.
- Experience developing solution and system architecture.
- Debugging and troubleshooting experience with Entra ID.
- Preferred Skills:
- Excellent interpersonal communication skills with strong spoken and written English.
- Collaborative team worker - both in person and virtually using MS Teams or similar.
- Excellent analytical skills.
- Organizational skills with attention to detail.
- Ability to leverage existing documentation.
- Excellent documentation skills; demonstrated proficiency in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, and Powerpoint.
- Business outcomes mindset.
- Solid balance of strategic thinking with detailed orientation.
- Self-starter, ability to take initiative.
- Flexibility to accommodate working across different time-zones.
Preferred Education
- Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in Computer Science from four-year college or university; or equivalent training, education, and work experience. Certifications such as CISSP, CISM, Microsoft Certified Identity and Access Administrator, Azure Solutions Architect Expert a plus.
Top Skills
Attribute-Based Access Control
Entra Id
Kerberos
Microsoft Graph
Oidc
Policy-Based Access Control
Role-Based Access Control
SAML
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