Identity & Access Management (IAM) Security Advisor

Anticipated End Date:

2025-06-20

Position Title:

Identity & Access Management (IAM) Security Advisor

Job Description:

Identity & Access Management (IAM) Security Advisor

Location: Atlanta, GA (preferred). This role requires associates to be in-office 1 - 2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity, while providing flexibility to support productivity and work-life balance. This approach combines structured office engagement with the autonomy of virtual work, promoting a dynamic and adaptable workplace. Alternate locations may be considered.

PLEASE NOTE: This position is not eligible for current or future visa sponsorship.

The Identity & Access Management (IAM) Security Advisor maintains enterprise information security policies, technical standards, guidelines, procedures, and other elements of infrastructure necessary to support information security in compliance with established company policies, regulatory requirements, and generally accepted information security controls. The IAM Security Advisor role is a technical position that will support the development of security strategies and architecture vision as it relates to our access management initiatives, specifically setting the direction for IAM as it relates to on-prem and cloud.  Ensures security solutions involving the use of technologies are well-conceived, designed, and implemented in compliance with enterprise standards.

How you will make an impact:

• Develop effective architecture solutions that not only satisfy immediate project requirements but also deliver a coherent, reusable, reliable, and phased architecture to help the business grow and change while aligning with strategic vision.
• Create, maintain, and align the company’s Information Security policies and standards with industry best practices and business needs in the adoption of cloud services and technologies.
• Provides trouble resolution and serves as the point of technical escalation on complex problems; develops solutions and recommendations for issues caused by process challenges, emerging threats, and technology changes.
• Leads or plans implementations for access management and network security technologies.
• Develops testing plans to ensure the quality of implementation; deliver technical security configuration architecture expertise in implementing cross-organizational information sharing.
• Leads the investigation and reporting of data security events and incidents.
• Provides system and network architecture support for information and network security technologies; participates in Identity and Access Management enterprise governance processes and drives IAM standards adoption.
• Provides technical support to business and technology associates in risk assessments and implementation of appropriate information security procedures, standards, and technologies.
• Review and management of technical security roadmaps related to cloud security and IAM within a cloud security context.
• Represents major upgrades and business system replacements in change control.
• Recommends changes and updates to strategy; drive the adoption of creative solutions to address complex, global IAM problems.
• Manage the successful technical delivery of Information Security projects and services for our customers by working directly with key business stakeholders, executives, and project teams.
• Designs & engineers technical solutions based on business requirements and defined technology standards; drives the adoption of Authentication and Authorization reference architectures for existing, new, and emerging IAM technologies.
• Develops support procedures and performance metrics reports.
• Leads level 1 & 2 incident recoveries and may organize the efforts of other analysts as part of incident recovery.
• Leads root cause analysis efforts.

Must be capable of providing top-tier support for 4 or more of the information security technology common body of knowledge skill sets:

Access Control, Application Security, Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning, Cryptography, Information Security and Risk Management, Legal / Regulations, Compliance & Investigations, Operations Security, Physical (Environmental) Security, Security Architecture & Design, Telecommunications & Network Security

Minimum Requirements:

• Requires BS/BA degree in Information Technology or related field of study