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Title: IAM Security Engineer
Work Mode: Remote (EST Zone)
Job ID: SYFJP00001266
Duration: 06 Months
Company Overview:
• A leading consumer financial services organization delivering one of the industry's most digitally enabled product suites.
• Expertise spans multiple industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet, and more.
Organizational Overview
• This role reports to the Identity and Access Management (IAM) Programs organization within the Information Security function.
Role Summary/Purpose
• The IAM team is leading an initiative to implement enhanced logging and monitoring of access changes across high-risk applications using technologies such as Splunk and Cortex.
• The IAM Security Engineer will be responsible for Highly Privileged Access (HPA) Logging and Monitoring.
• This role partners closely with technology teams to onboard applications to the monitoring framework by assessing logging capabilities and integrating applications into Splunk.
• The IAM team is also enhancing a system that identifies secret keys across the environment and reports on keys approaching or exceeding required rotation dates.
• The IAM Security Engineer will be responsible for understanding test cases, executing functional testing, and identifying/reporting defects throughout development.
Scope of Services
• Support HPA Logging and Monitoring discovery and onboarding activities, as well as testing for the secrets rotation tool.
• Assist with accelerating application onboarding to Splunk and validating functionality of the secrets rotation solution.
Responsibilities
• Facilitate discovery sessions and engagement with application owners.
• Conduct interviews, working sessions, and document onboarding requirements.
• Document and escalate risk mitigation plans for applications that cannot be onboarded.
• Coordinate troubleshooting efforts during onboarding preparation.
• Provide status reporting and raise required escalations.
• Analyze log data and identify relevant events for mapping to Splunk data models.
• Develop Splunk technology add-ons to parse, classify, and tag security data.
• Test and validate Splunk configurations, ensuring compliance with standards and Common Information Model (CIM) requirements.
• Release onboarded applications to the production Splunk team.
• Develop and execute test plans and test cases for new functionality.
• Collaborate with developers to reproduce and troubleshoot issues.
• Maintain detailed test documentation.
Required Skills / Knowledge
• 3+ years of overall professional experience, including at least 1 year of engineering and/or architecture experience in IAM or related Information Security domains such as Data Protection or Security Engineering. In lieu of a degree, 5+ years of relevant experience.
• Minimum 1 year of hands-on experience with IAM technologies.
• Strong understanding of Splunk Cloud and Splunk Processing Language (SPL).
• Experience working in cloud (PaaS) environments.
• Knowledge of core IAM concepts including Authentication, Authorization, RBAC, etc.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to prioritize work based on risk and project timelines.
• Experience working in Agile environments using Jira and Jira Align.