IT Identity Security Engineer (Entra ID) - REMOTE

CNO Financial Group is hiring an IT Identity Security Engineer to focus on IT Identity Infrastructure solutions including Cloud Services. The role involves working hands-on with security tools, creating engineering documentation, and implementing security solutions to protect the organization's information assets.

Responsibilities:

• Participating in projects as required, including analyzing, designing, developing, and implementing security solutions which protect the information assets while enabling business functionality
• Supporting annual projects and deliverables established using company business goals and strategies, as communicated by the CISO and Director IT Security, Identity
• Creating clear engineering diagrams, security analysis, whitepapers, system documentation, presentations, and other deliverables
• Utilizing automation that advances security posture in terms of efficiency and effectiveness
• Planning, designing, implementing, and maintaining identity and privileged identity security-related technologies
• Utilizing software and hardware tools to identify and diagnose problems affecting information security tools and systems providing 2nd and 3rd tier operational support
• Providing information security expertise and consulting to internal IT, business system owners, and other stakeholders
• Performing product and solution life cycle management ensuring capacity, integrity and availability of all security systems
• Aligning technologies to support the overall strategy and information security framework
• Ensuring new and existing products conform to information security policies, standards, and best practices
• Conducting research on emerging technologies in support of enterprise operations
• Reviewing new and existing system designs for compliance with security standards and best practices

Requirements:

• Typically requires a Bachelor's degree in Information Systems/Business or related field, or equivalent professional experience
• Typically requires a minimum of 3 years of experience in cybersecurity or related technical discipline (infrastructure, etc.)
• Prior experience designing and implementing Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) SSO integrations for enterprise applications is required
• Knowledge of SAML authentication standards and their application within enterprise SSO integrations
• Have experience with systems and network administration and an understanding of security concepts, practices, procedures, and information security technologies (e.g., virus detection, firewall, content filtering, VPNs, IDS/IPS)
• Understand information security policies, standards and regulatory requirements, optimization of processes, and automation technologies
• Possess cloud service knowledge and experience with common cloud services (Infrastructure as a Services, Platform as a Service or Software as a Service)
• Can collaborate across teams and functions to achieve shared objectives and support enterprise initiatives
• Strong customer support skills to ensure timely and accurate responses to internal customers and service desk escalations
• A passion for staying up to date on emerging technologies and industry trends
• Prior experience in highly regulated organizations