LOCATION REQUIREMENT: This role is remote but candidates MUST be based in India, working India Standard Time (IST) hours. Applications from outside India will not be considered.
Employment type: Contract, full time, paid hourly
Position Summary
We are seeking a seasoned IBM Security Verify Access / IBM Security Access Manager specialist with 10+ years of IAM experience. The candidate should be hands-on in deploying, migrating, upgrading, troubleshooting, and operating enterprise-scale ISVA/ISAM environments, including IBM Security Directory Server and modern federation standards such as SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect. The client's environment also includes IBM Verify (SaaS); familiarity here is a strong plus but not required.
Key Responsibilities
IBM Security Verify Access / ISAM Administration
Design, install, configure, and administer ISVA/ISAM environments
Perform setup, migration, upgrade, patching, and lifecycle management of ISAM/ISVA/ISVIA virtual appliances
Configure and support WebSEAL, Policy Server, Runtime Components, Federation Services, Advanced Access Control,



authorization policies, and reverse proxy components
Design and operate clustered, highly available, disaster recovery-ready ISVA environments
Manage snapshots, backups, restores, runbooks, rollback plans, and production cutover activities
Troubleshoot complex authentication, authorization, SSO, federation, appliance, certificate, and access policy issues
Federation, SSO, and Protocol Expertise
Design and implement enterprise SSO using SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, JWT
Configure IdP/SP integrations, federation partners, metadata, certificates, endpoints, bindings, signatures, encryption settings
Develop and troubleshoot claims, assertions, scopes, token attributes, subject identifiers, relay state, ACS URLs, redirect URIs
Analyze SAML assertions, OAuth/OIDC tokens, authorization code flows, refresh token behavior, PKCE, token validation issues
Onboard SaaS and on-prem applications to enter

📌 Contractor: Senior IBM Security Verify Access (India)
🏢 Airitos
📍 India