Senior Identity And Access Management Engineer - Cloud Environment

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The Position

Job description

The Security and Cybersecurity Analyst serves as a trusted advisor and independent leader who drives the analysis of moderately complex cybersecurity incidents and technical problems

By bridging deep business and technical understanding, you will manage end-to-end security analysis tasks across multiple products within a domain

You will shape stakeholder perspectives, champion accountability by taking on security incident lead or project owner roles, and foster continuous improvement in security operations and best practices

Description of the area

The Identity Management Support Team manages and operates the solutions and components used to provide customers with Directory and Identity Management Services using SailPoint. We are part of a global Roche Digital Technology group (RDT).

Job Responsibilities

In this role, you are mainly responsible for the multi-cloud Identity Management environment, focusing specifically on Azure and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), while maintaining consistency with AWS. This includes the design of new solutions, consultancy, maintenance, performance, tactical lifecycle management and continuous improvement of the underlying technologies.

Scope

• Strong background in IAM concepts at design level and evolution in Cloud environments, Azure and/or GCP.

• Contributes to the design of new solutions based on SailPoint and PingFederate, AD, Privilege Access Management. 

• Design and implement Centralized Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) based on Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) principles.

• Access Governance and Controls: Enforce strong security controls across cloud environments, including Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) and Identity Protection. Implement Least Privilege policies, often involving custom roles and organizational-level controls. Implement IAM Deny Policies to strictly block high-risk actions, ensuring separation of duties

• Automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC): Drive the core value of "Automate as much as possible". Design and implement IAM infrastructure using IaC, leveraging Terraform. For Azure, this mandates IaC using Terraform and Azure Verified Modules (AVM) with CI/CD pipelines in GitLab

• Privileged Access Management (PAM): Design and support Just-in-Time (JIT) Access mechanisms, ensuring no standing privileges for administrators, using tools like Cyberark for Just-in-Time access

• Operational Excellence: Act as an expert in the release management activities, providing 2nd and 3rd level support for the Identity Management Infrastructure. Proactively monitor systems for performance, availability, and capacity management

• Actively focus on self-development in creating actionable plans to improve.

Stakeholder Management 

• Consultancy and Collaboration: Act as a mentor and reference, working closely with stakeholders to provide the right level of consultancy. Ensure regular interactions with the Managed Service Provider

• Acts as a strategic influencer, defining and driving stakeholder engagement strategies for complex initiatives, facilitating workshops, resolving conflicts, and proactively shaping stakeholder perspectives to align with project goals

Impact/Strategy 

• Demonstrates strong and consistent performance across diverse products, with an impact that typically extends to a specific product, initiative, or cluster

• Translates requirements into strategic implementation plans that align with overall business objectives, and takes a proactive role in shaping team processes, often contributing to Communities of Practice (CoPs)

Complexity 

• Manages business analysis activities on more complex projects or across multiple products within a domain

• Capable of handling ambiguous requirements, navigating intricate stakeholder environments, and evaluating solution impacts con