IAM Engineer

Job Title: IAM Engineer

Contract Type / Duration: Contract | 6 Months

Location: New York, NY or Alpharetta, GA

Work Hours: 40 Hours/Week

Job Summary / Overview

We are seeking an IAM Engineer to support the development, integration, and automation of enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions. This role will focus on identity provisioning, authentication services, automation, and platform integrations while working closely with engineering teams to improve the reliability, scalability, and security of identity infrastructure.

Responsibilities

Identity Management:

The strongest impression from the discussion is that they are hiring an engineer first and an IAM specialist second. If they had to compromise, they''d rather teach a great senior engineer some product-specific Ping IDM details than teach an IAM administrator how to engineer software. That priority came through consistently across the conversation.

Must Have

• Identity Engineering experience, not ticket que managers, but hands on enginering
• Joiner/Mover/Leaver; IDM lifecycle management
• Hands-on coding experience
• Git/source control proficiency
• Linux command-line skills
• Testing and deployment experience
• Production troubleshooting
• Enterprise-scale, regulated environment experience
• Ability to work Eastern Time

Strongly Preferred

• Ping IDM
• ForgeRock IDM
• OpenIDM
• Ping certification
• Banking or financial services
• DevOps/CI/CD exposure
• Experience supporting production identity platforms

Most Important Personality Traits

• Self-sufficient
• Curious and willing to read documentation
• Careful with production changes
• Takes ownership from development through deployment and support
• Communicates clearly and works well in a highly regulated enterprise

Employment Requirements

• Candidate must be eligible for W-2 employment
• No Corp-to-Corp (C2C) arrangements
• Must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. without current or future sponsorship

Equal Opportunity Statement

The client is an equal opportunity employer. Employment decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or any other non-merit-based factor.