Company: Banking

Job Title: SSO Pingfederate Engineer

Duration: 12-month contract (High chance of extension)

Location: Addison, TX 75001 Hybrid from day 1

Interview- Onsite Mandatory

Key Responsibilities:
* Contribute to story refinement/defining requirements.
* Incorporates basic architecture components including threat-models, diagrams, and textual technological requirements for in solution development deployment
* Understand and utilize basic network, virtualization, and datacenter technologies for deployment strategies.
* Work with solutions to integrate, transform and control systems in operational environments per the defined acceptance criteria.
* Work across development teams to understand and aid in the delivery of system requirements.
* Work with large, complex data sets that meet functional/ non-functional requirements.
* Build and improve processes supporting system transformation, structures, quality controls, dependency, and workload management.
* Define and build deployment pipelines that enable faster, better, data-informed decision-making within the business.
* Perform/Implement existing test suites (integration, regression, and performance), analyze test reports, identify any test issues/errors, and triage the underlying cause.
* Document and communicate required information for deployment, maintenance, support, and business functionality.
* Adhere to team delivery/release process and cadence pertaining to solution deployment and release.
* Identify gaps in environment management standards adherence and work with appropriate partners to develop plans to close gaps.

Required Skills:
* 7+ years of experience in Information Security
* Strong hands-on experience with industry standard SSO technologies and protocols (OAuth, OpenID Connect, FIDO, SCIM, LDAP, SAML)
* Strong expertise in administration (including policy management) and support of Identity and Authentication solutions such as Ping Federate
* Experience with deployments and integration of IAM solutions within the cloud (Azure, AWS Cloud)
* Familiarity with container technologies like OpenShift and Kubernetes
* Familiarity with build and deployment automation of IAM solutions using CI/CD (Jenkins, Artifactory, XLR and Ansible)
* Knowledge of LDAP and Active Directory services, MFA, Risk based authentication and privileged access management
* Holistic view of IAM (Authentication and Authorization Data, Endpoint Security, Network Security, Policy Engine)
* Experience in Web-Development technologies: HTML, XML, XSL/XSLT, XPATH and Java script
* Proficient in Linux, Windows, Tomcat, Web Logic, WebSphere environments
* Ability to utilize various programming or scripting languages such as Shell scripting, Perl, Python, JavaScript and PowerShell
* Understanding of API design concepts, RESTful Services and modern application interaction patterns
* Experience in deploying large-scale, global projects and programs
* Familiarity with IT security and risk management practices
* Leadership skills and qualities which enable you to work with peers and various levels of management
* Effective communication skills and motivation/willingness to learn