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Senior Technical Specialist - Identity Management

  • Location:

    Scotland

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Salary:

    £50000 - £59000 per annum

  • Contact:

    Josh Ryder

  • Contact email:

    jryder@headresourcing.com

  • Job ref:

    BBBH35701_1642593669

  • Published:

    about 2 years ago

  • Expiry date:

    2022-02-18

Senior Technical Specialist - Identity Management (Fully remote)
£50,000 - £59,000 + benefits

ISAM, ISIM, ISDI, ISDS, IAM, IDaaS, OKTA, PING, ADFS, Perl, BASH, Ansible

Head Resourcing are pleased to be assisting our large financial services client to recruit a Senior Technical Specialist to join a dynamic team supporting their Identity Management (IM) function. Our client is looking for ambitious individuals who can come in and lead from a technical point of view whilst remaining eager to learn new skills.

As a Senior Technical Specialist, you will be working within an established team to provide direction and leadership to the technical members of the team responsible for the delivery of excellent service alongside offering coaching, training, support, and guidance to the team. You will be the go-to person for Designers, Managers and Colleagues to promote and implement best practices with the IM technologies. The work of this team is highly specialised, so you are not expected to have all the required skills from day one. However, you will be expected to drive your own (and others) development and will be given work hours to complete training and certifications on ISAM as well as Azure. This is an exciting opportunity in which you will work closely with both internal colleagues and external 3rd parties and be responsible for ensuring that change in this area is managed and controlled effectively.

In this role you will help improve our client's delivery through innovation, continuous improvement, and automation. Working with Project teams to ensure solutions meet the organisations operational and strategic needs. A big part of the role will involve estimating, implementing and supporting IM deployments for production and non-production systems.

Must have:

*In-depth understanding of authentication, authorisation & identity lifecycle
*Expert knowledge of identity standards and protocols such as SAML, OIDC
*Proven analytical and problem-solving skills
*Expert in driving complex issues and coaching / mentoring others
*Capability to upskill on other technologies based within the team
*Leadership qualities and examples of leading complex technical projects

Nice to have:

*Expert level experience of any of the below IBM Security tools:
oIBM Security Access Manager (ISAM)
oIBM Security Identity Manager (ISIM)
oIBM Security Directory Integrator (ISDI)
oIBM Security Directory Server (ISDS)
*Expert knowledge of cloud-based identity management through IDaaS eg OKTA
*Expert supporting production and development / testing systems
*Scripting and automation skills eg BASH, Perl, Python, cURL, Ansible
*ITIL Service Management process awareness

If this role is of interest to you, please apply or send your CV to jryder@headresourcing.com for a confidential chat to find out more.

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