The IAM Engineer owns identity and access management engineering for the organization -- designing, implementing, and securing IAM/Okta-based access controls, provisioning workflows, and compliance processes across enterprise systems.
Duties/responsibilities
- Design, implement, and maintain IAM solutions (e.g., Okta), including SSO, MFA, provisioning/de-provisioning, and access governance
- Engineer secure authentication and federation integrations using standard identity protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM)
- Lead security engineering initiatives related to identity, access control, and system hardening
- Partner with IT Operations and Security teams on incident response and access-related risk mitigation
- Develop and enforce IAM policies and standards across systems and applications
- Automate identity lifecycle processes to improve efficiency and reduce manual access-management overhead
- Support audits and compliance reviews related to access controls (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001)