Sr. IT Systems Engineer
Palo Alto Networks•Reston, VA
•Onsite
About The Position
Palo Alto Networks is looking for a talented Senior IT Systems Engineer, Identity & Access Management who will be responsible for maintainability, build and configuration of user identity & authentication services, single sign on (SSO) and access automation. The ideal candidate enjoys working in a fast-paced environment with highly innovative technologies and will make a big impact in this highly visible role strengthening our identity services.
Requirements
- Due to the nature of this project/government contract, this position requires US Citizenship
- Must be located in Reston, VA or Dallas, Tx to be onsite.
- 3+ years of hands-on experience in managing and supporting identity & access technologies, like Okta, Azure AD, Ping Identity, CyberArk
- Very strong knowledge of SSO, MFA and user identity management domain
- Advanced understanding of SAML, OAuth, and SCIM standards and protocols and practical knowledge of their implementation
- Ability to work cross-functionally across multiple business units, such as IT application, infrastructure, and product development teams
- Strong technical writing skills to support required documentation
- Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or technical stream with the equivalent combination of work experience or equivalent military experience required
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of directory services, preferably active directory
- Familiarity with privileged access management platforms
- Hands on experience with cloud provides (GCP/ AWS)
- Strong scripting / automation skills in Python / Bash /Go
Responsibilities
- Implement and support the SSO. MFA and user access provisioning services
- Develop and maintain IAM policies, procedures, and standards
- Partner with IT and product teams for SSO and user registration integration
- Maintain and support API based micro services for customizing customer and partner registration
- Manage scalability, capacity planning, redundancy, and resiliency
- Maintain service availability and performance SLAs based on business and product requirements
- Work with other Identity Platform engineers to deploy and maintain services, capacity planning, create and review operational runbooks
- Contribute to future roadmap, design, deployment, validation, operations and DR/BCP
- Design proactive service monitoring, alerting and trend analysis of the services, and implement self healing
- Participate in on-call support rotation and handle IAM-related incidents as needed
Benefits
- A description of our employee benefits may be found here.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
