Description
IAM ForgeRock Security Designer required by Whitehall Resources for a 3 month initial contract based in Hampshire.
Key responsibilities include:
- Responsible for leading and creating Identity & Access Management (IAM) technical delivery of IAM components (eg IAM Connectors). Components include solutions for authentication, authorisation, identity provisioning, role based access control, physical security, and audit and monitoring solutions.
- Responsible for ensuring appropriate collection and analysis of technical functional requirements based on critical client IAM use cases and expectations.
- Responsible for generating client delivery documentation such as technical requirement design documents, Visio diagrams, and technical component presentations.
- Works closely with project IAM Architect or Practice Manager to identify key IAM technical components as aligned to project requirements, assist in prioritising development efforts, catalogue IAM component to project requirements, and assign them to project use cases and sprints.
- Conducts in depth technical IAM research, needs assessments and performance analysis to support, design, and develop new technical IAM components for clients.
- Identifies client's technical stakeholders, and provides effective training and mentoring to maximise leadership and consulting effectiveness, client learning and overall project team productivity.
- Enhances security team accomplishments and competence by planning delivery of solutions; answering technical and procedural questions for less experienced team members; teaching improved processes; mentoring team members.
- Determines security requirements by evaluating business strategies and requirements; researching information security standards; conducting system security and vulnerability analyses and risk assessments; studying architecture/platform; identifying integration issues; preparing cost estimates.
- Maintains security by monitoring and ensuring compliance to standards, policies, and procedures; conducting incident response analyses; developing and conducting training programs.
- Develops technical architecture aligning to security principles during different phases of digital transformation project
- Develops & provides estimates
- Ensures all designs adhere to the corporate guidelines and specifications, whilst staying within Forgerock best practices.
- Has the ability to coordinate and participate in establishing service/support needs with vendors, technical support engineers, and application support engineers
- Responsible for IAM infrastructure capacity planning
- Creates, Documents, and Maintains security based detailed design, use-cases, interface design, procedures and guidelines, from both the Infrastructure perspective as well as the developer perspective
Person Specification:
- The Job Holder should have the following skills:
- Experience with Java, J2EE, or related technologies
- Experience with Identity & Access Management solutions (especially Forgerock OpenIDM and OpenAM for consumer access)
- Experience with REST APIs and Curl commands
- Experience with the latest Linux and Microsoft server operating systems and various IdAM standards, including LDAP, REST,OAUTH, OpenID Connect and SAML
- 3+ years of enterprise IAM architecture and engineering experience
- 5+ years of IT experience
- Expert knowledge of Forgerock IAM products, at least OpenAM and OpenIDM
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including product documentation
- Demonstrated ability of triaging complex issues; working independently and in the team (as a technical lead)
- Experience working with a multi-forest/multi-domain Active Directory (AD) environment.
- Strong understanding of the clients existing security infrastructure.
- Strong problem solver