Title: SSO Engineer
Location: Raleigh, Charlotte, NC/ Irving, TX/ Chandler, AZ/ Minneapolis, MN(Hybrid)
Duration: 12-24 months
Job ID: 171534
W2 only (No C2C) Please apply only if you are comfortable with Onsite Interview Team Overview
- Production support team focused on Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Team size: 8-9 people, based in the U.S.
- Primary SSO platforms:
- Ping Identity
- Azure Active Directory (Azure SSO)
Experience & Skills
- 2-3 years of hands-on SSO integration experience
- Experience integrating multiple applications using various SSO protocols, such as:
- SAML
- OAuth
- OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
- Familiar with authentication flows and identity federation concepts
Shift & Support Model
- Support coverage from 9:00 AM to 9:00 PM
- On-call/pages for:
- Application access issues
- Authentication failures
- SSO outages or configuration errors
Troubleshooting Approach
How They Troubleshoot
- Analyze authentication and SSO logs (Ping, Azure AD, application logs)
- Verify SSO configurations:
- Metadata
- Certificates
- Redirect URLs
- Claims and attributes
- Identify whether the issue is:
- Identity provider-related
- Application-side
- Network or certificate-related
- Reproduce issues where possible
- Coordinate with application owners and other support teams as needed
Qualifications: - 4+ years of Information Security Engineering experience or equivalent demonstrated through work, consulting experience, training, military experience, or education.
- Experience in installing, configuring, and supporting SSO platforms such as Okta or Ping.
- Proficient in Agent-Based, Web-Based, and Federated Authentication and Authorization standards.
- Strong hands-on experience with industry-standard SSO technologies and protocols (OAuth, OpenID Connect, FIDO, SAML 2.0).
- Demonstrated ability to support applications in a distributed, highly available, mission-critical environment.
Desired Qualifications: - Strong verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills.
- Knowledge of LDAP and Active Directory services, MFA, Risk-based authentication, and privileged access management.
- Familiarity with deployments and integration of IAM solutions within the cloud (Azure, AWS, or Google Cloud).
- Knowledge and understanding of complex enterprise systems and frameworks, including frontends, middleware, services layer, database, backend, and downstream interfaces.
- Knowledge and understanding of technical writing: storage, middleware, or virtualization.
- Strong negotiation and leadership abilities.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes containerization strategy.
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Pay Range: $55 - $60
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