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Ready to advance your cybersecurity career and make an impact protecting millions of users? We’re looking for passionate, driven professionals to join our Cybersecurity team in the Cybersecurity Defensive and Identity & Access Management (IAM) role:

Responsibilities:

• Participate in gathering and analyzing business and technical requirements to develop enterprise-wide Identity and Access Management (IAM) processes and procedures.
• Demonstrate a solid understanding of risk and change management, security policies and controls, user account lifecycle management, onboarding/offboarding, role-based access control (RBAC), access governance, and directory services.
• Translate business requirements into specific system, application, or process designs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including business units and technical stakeholders, to identify and define functional requirements, and contribute to or lead the design of IAM solutions.
• Engage in a broad range of IAM design activities from requirements analysis to implementation.
• Apply your knowledge of various IAM products and domains, with the ability to quickly adapt to new tools and technologies through self-learning or formal training.
• Provide support for identity provisioning, governance platforms, and privileged access management (PAM) tools.
• Lead and contribute to IAM-related projects to ensure successful delivery of objectives.
• Identify and communicate high-level functional gaps, risks, and potential issues, and propose effective solutions.
• Monitor service delivery against SLAs and escalate exceptions as needed.
• Perform IAM-related risk assessments and consult on project implementations to ensure alignment with RBAC frameworks and internal security policies.
• Drive improvements in RBAC processes, governance policies, and IAM lifecycle workflows.
• Lead or contribute to incident and problem management efforts, ensuring root cause analysis and future incident mitigation.
• Participate in on-call production support rotations and work with vendors to resolve technical issues.
• Influence the IAM strategy by making informed decisions on complex technical challenges.
• Support internal and external audit readiness by preparing and organizing required audit documentation.
• Design and implement key management controls to ensure encryption key security throughout the lifecycle.
• Conduct physical access control reviews and physical security assessments for restricted areas.
• Promote and extend secure access control practices across the organization and its affiliates.