Federated Security Engineer

Role Overview

• Collaborates with the Cybersecurity and IAM teams to ensure secure onboarding and offboarding of applications into the SSO environment.
• Designs or consults on the application integration approach to enable secure access/SSO.
• Validates and maintains application integration configurations to meet cybersecurity and compliance requirements.
• Assists in developing and ensuring alignment of implementations or changes with access control policies and security standards.
• Supports audits and compliance reviews related to IAM and application integrations by facilitating responses via the proper SMEs.
• Maintains the CI's that relate to federated applications in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), ensuring application records are accurate, complete, and current.
• Manages the application catalog to ensure all integrated applications are tracked with appropriate metadata (e.g., owners, contacts, technical details, integration type).
• Leverages ServiceNow to manage requests, incidents, and changes related to application integrations and IAM processes.
• Coordinates application onboarding and offboarding processes, including requirement gathering, integration configuration, testing, and documentation.
• Works with application owners to ensure smooth transitions during onboarding/offboarding.
• Maintains end-to-end lifecycle documentation for each application in scope.
• Creates and maintains detailed documentation for application integrations, onboarding/offboarding procedures, and CMDB updates.
• Gathers and analyzes enhancement requests from stakeholders, prioritizes them, and coordinates with technical teams for implementation.
• Identifies opportunities to streamline IAM-related processes and improve integration workflows.
• Assists in engineering modern applications that support the SSO integration intake process and application inventory.
• Troubleshoots, develops, and supports in multiple IDPs including Entra ID and Shibboleth IDP.
• Serves as On-Call rotation for IDP support as needed.
• Performs other related duties as required.

Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in a scientific or math field and three years of related experience, OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Hands-on programming experience and/or non-trivial scripting in a robust programming language, including the ability to write clean, maintainable code to solve practical problems.

Tech Stack

• Cyber Security
• ServiceNow

Benefits

• Not Applicable