World Wide Technology Holding Co, LLC. (WWT) has an opportunity available for a Site Reliability Engineer (Identity Management) to support our client on their global Identity Management Reliability Engineering team.
Position Overview:
- Support Identity Management applications for human and system account management built on the Ping Identity / ForgeRock Identity Management products.
- Maintain LDAP Directory Services products such as Ping Directory and Ping DataSync
- Provide first-line support for Identity Management during large-scale outages, including post 1 mortem, pre-mortems and problem management with a data-driven strategies and a code-first approach to problem solving.
- Prepare and execute change management activities, often automating and creating tools where necessary.
- Collaborate with partner enterprise technology teams and provide support to stakeholders and our Level 2 operations team
- Contribute to performance and training assessments of team members
- Improving stability of Identity Management platforms by identifying and implementing alert automation and self-healing functions where possible.
- Performance and scalability - ensure systems can scale seamlessly to handle increased load and monitor the performance of our applications and infrastructure using our service level objectives (SLO) and service level indicators (SLI).
- Participate in on-call rotations (weekday and weekend cycles)
- Share responsibilities and knowledge across the team, engaging with our community and stakeholders to gather feedback to improve our systems.
- Address security and compliance issues ensuring we are meeting industry standards and have implemented best practices for security and data protection with our systems.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Previous experience in IT Operations, Reliability Engineering, or DevOps
- Exposure to Agile / DevOps environments
- Knowledge of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and methodology
- ITIL, CISSP or similar certification (optional)
Technical Skills
- Basic understanding of the LDAP protocol and its functionalities
- Experience supporting Ping Directory and Ping DataSync
- Familiarity with IAM products from providers such as ForgeRock and Ping Identity
- Knowledge of enterprise security standards and concepts
- Understanding of general enterprise infrastructure concepts and troubleshooting, including network, storage, web infrastructure, middleware, etc.
- Basic knowledge of operating system administration on Windows (Active Directory) and Red Hat Linux platforms (>=RHEL7+)
- Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as PowerShell, Python, Shell (bash)
- Functional knowledge of C/C++ and Java can be advantageous for some tooling.
- Experience working within large enterprise architectures
- Familiarity with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and development environment tooling (GitHub, Jenkins, Visual Studio Code, etc.)
- Familiarity with visualization and plant and incident management tools such as Splunk, Grafana, ServiceNow, Jira, Bitbucket, PagerDuty, PowerBI
- Recommend: Foundational knowledge of authentication protocols in the broader IAM domain, such as OpenID Connect, SAML, Kerberos, and Radius, and multifactor authentication solutions like RSA SecurID, Cisco Duo Security, FIDO, etc