About the Role
We are seeking two Junior Identity Access Management Consultants to support enterprise-scale Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Identity & Access Management (IAM) environments. The role focuses on supporting, maintaining, upgrading, securing, and enhancing mission-critical IAM and PKI systems while collaborating with stakeholders, infrastructure teams, and application owners to deliver reliable identity services.
Responsibilities
- Support PKI environments across Development, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Production environments.
- Upgrade Entrust Certificate Authority platforms from legacy versions to current supported releases.
- Assist with migration initiatives to managed cloud-based PKI services.
- Implement disaster recovery sites for Certificate Authority infrastructure.
- Configure and support Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
- Upgrade directory services platforms and related technologies.
- Execute proof-of-concepts for new PKI-related services.
- Monitor system health, performance, availability, and service status.
- Start, stop, backup, restore, and recover service components as required.
- Perform system tuning and optimization activities.
- Apply patches, renew certificates, and maintain software licensing requirements.
- Triage, analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents related to PKI services.
- Identify and resolve application and infrastructure problems affecting IAM and PKI environments.
- Assess the impact of proposed changes from clients and service providers.
- Document support procedures, maintenance requirements, and operational processes.
- Work with software vendors when extended support or escalation is required.
- Provide 24x7 on-call support for production environments.
- Provide scheduled support coverage for non-production environments.
- Participate in incident management as a coordinator, analyst, or SME.
- Participate in change management activities as a coordinator, analyst, or SME.
- Support networking infrastructure components including Load Balancers, Firewalls, Proxy Servers, Gateways, and Routers.
- Provide application support across IAM and PKI technology stacks.
- Support client integrations with enterprise PKI and IAM platforms.
- Analyze technical requirements and design appropriate integration solutions.
- Develop and document integration patterns, standards, and approaches.
- Create processes and plans that support successful integrations.
- Construct, test, and deploy integration solutions.
- Troubleshoot and resolve integration-related issues.
- Develop utilities, scripts, applets, and reports to automate integration processes.
- Document integration designs and implementation approaches.
- Develop requirements for operational support tools.
- Evaluate and recommend new tools and solutions.
- Install and configure support tooling.
- Develop, test, and deploy scripts, queries, reports, procedures, and automation solutions.
- Document operational support requirements and procedures.
- Assist in implementing disaster recovery solutions for future PKI applications.
- Define, document, and maintain operational disaster recovery procedures and processes.
- Define, document, configure, implement, and test system management processes.
- Establish monitoring standards, metrics, thresholds, and alerting mechanisms.
- Implement monitoring and operational alerting solutions.
- Work with hosting and infrastructure providers to implement system management procedures.
- Document system administration and operational processes.
- Contribute to role definitions and support models for PKI sustainment teams.
- Develop knowledge transfer plans and learning activities.
- Create plans to transition support functions to internal teams.
- Deliver knowledge transfer sessions and documentation.
- Support a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience sustaining commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Identity and Access Management solutions, including administration, operations, support, monitoring, patching, and troubleshooting.
- At least 4 years supporting implementations with more than 10,000 registered users.
- 10+ years of experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting large-scale application implementations using Entrust PKI Suite, Oracle Identity Manager (OIM), LDAP Tools (e.g., Apache Directory Studio, LDAP command-line tools), Microsoft IIS, Apache HTTPD, IBM Web Server, NGINX, Oracle WebLogic, SQL, Oracle Database 11g or later, Solaris, Windows, AIX, and Linux.
- Experience with ITIL processes including Service Level Management, Problem Management, Change Management, Release Management, and Capacity Management.
- Strong experience investigating, troubleshooting, and resolving complex IAM-related incidents and problems.
- Experience supporting change and release management processes for large-scale applications.
- Experience with automated testing tools such as Team Foundation Server (TFS), Robot Framework, GOSS, SikuliX, and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS).
- Strong verbal, written, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
- Minimum 4 years of experience working with Entrust PKI environments.
- Strong knowledge of security technologies including PKI, PMI, SSL/TLS, Encryption technologies, and Authentication technologies.
- 10+ years of experience applying quality assurance and quality control methodologies within large enterprise application environments.
- Experience serving as a central point of contact for operational incidents and problem management activities.
- 10+ years administering and supporting enterprise IAM environments.
- 10+ years designing and supporting large-scale implementations using Entrust PKI Suite and Oracle Identity Manager.
- Extensive experience with ITIL service management processes.
- Experience supporting environments with 10,000+ users.
- Strong troubleshooting, diagnostics, and problem-resolution capabilities.
Skills
- Identity and Access Management (IAM)
- Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- Entrust Certificate Authority
- Hardware Security Modules (HSMs)
- Directory Services
- Load Balancers
- Firewalls
- Proxy Servers
- Gateways
- Routers
- ITIL Processes
- Incident Management
- Change Management
- Release Management
- Problem Management
- Capacity Management
- Automated Testing Tools
- Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)
- LDAP Tools
- Microsoft IIS
- Apache HTTPD
- IBM Web Server
- NGINX
- Oracle WebLogic
- SQL
- Oracle Database
- Solaris
- Windows
- AIX
- Linux
- PMI
- SSL/TLS
- Encryption Technologies
- Authentication Technologies
- Quality Assurance
- Quality Control
- Troubleshooting
- Diagnostics
Location
- Toronto, ON
Work Type
- Onsite
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Junior
- 10+ years
- 4+ years
About the Company
- Symbiotic Digital provides the IT Experts you need that solve problems and get things done.
- Symbiotic Digital is a division of Symbiotic Group Inc.
- We serve customers in two ways: Digital Experts (IT Consulting expertise) and Recruitment (Find The Right People You Need).
- Serving IT & Business leaders, Symbiotic Digital provides a business system that enable us to provide the Expert Technical staff needed to solve challenging business and IT problems.
- IT leaders in the most reputable organizations in Canada have relied on Symbiotic Digital to help them staff difficult assignments with proven Experts uniquely evaluated by our proven QMS- Quality Management System Staff Development Model.
- We are a 100% Indigenous owned company.
- Learn more online at https://www.symbioticgroup.com/home-sd/.
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