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 up-to-date 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
📌 Contractor: Senior IBM Security Verify Access (India)
🏢 Airitos
📍 India