Federated Security Engineer

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Description

The Federated Security Engineer is a detail-oriented and proactive technical professional, with Identity and Access Management (IAM) expertise and a foundational experience in Cybersecurity as it relates to applications and secure access. This role focuses on managing and optimizing our central secure application access ecosystem, including onboarding/updating/offboarding applications, maintaining an up-to-date CMDB and application catalog, and supporting the integration of applications with our Single Sign-On (SSO) solution (Entra ID and Shibboleth IDP).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborates with the Cybersecurity and IAM teams to ensure secure onboarding and offboarding of applications into the SSO environment.
• Designs or consults on the application integration approach to enable secure access/SSO.
• Validates and maintains application integration configurations to meet cybersecurity and compliance requirements.
• Assists in developing and ensuring alignment of implementations or changes with access control policies and security standards.
• Supports audits and compliance reviews related to IAM and application integrations by facilitating responses via the proper SMEs.
• Maintains the CI's that relate to federated applications in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), ensuring application records are accurate, complete, and current.
• Manages the application catalog to ensure all integrated applications are tracked with appropriate metadata (e.g., owners, contacts, technical details, integration type).
• Leverages ServiceNow to manage requests, incidents, and changes related to application integrations and IAM processes.
• Coordinates application onboarding and offboarding processes, including requirement gathering, integration configuration, testing, and documentation.
• Works with application owners to ensure smooth transitions during onboarding/offboarding.
• Maintains end-to-end lifecycle documentation for each application in scope.
• Creates and maintains detailed documentation for application integrations, onboarding/offboarding procedures, and CMDB updates.
• Gathers and analyzes enhancement requests from stakeholders, prioritizes them, and coordinates with technical teams for implementation.
• Identifies opportunities to streamline IAM-related processes and improve integration workflows.
• Assists in engineering modern applications that support the SSO integration intake process and application inventory.
• Troubleshoots, develops, and supports in multiple IDPs including Entra ID and Shibboleth IDP.
• Serves as On-Call rotation for IDP support as needed.
• Performs other related duties as required.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• A bachelor's degree in a scientific or math field and three years of related experience, OR an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
• Hands-on programming experience and/or non-trivial scripting in a robust programming language, including the ability to write clean, maintainable code to solve practical problems.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Hands-on experience with ServiceNow, particularly CMDB and catalog management.
• Understanding of SSO technologies (e.g., SAML, OIDC, OAuth2, CAS, SCIM) and application integration principles
• Familiarity with provisioning/deprovisioning workflows in IAM platforms (Okta, Entra ID, Ping Identity, NetIQ, Saviynt, etc.)
• Experience with ITIL processes and change management in ServiceNow
• Experience with application security best practices and compliance frameworks (e.g., NIST, ISO 27001)
• RDBMs experience including proficiency in SQL and/or PLSQL
• Experience with low-code development platforms such as Power Platform
• Knowledge of data governance and asset management practices
• Familiarity whit Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) models
• Understanding of authentication concepts, including Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), SSO, and Kerberos

NOTE: Tasks related to this position can be performed remotely with only occasional visits to an Emory University location.  Eastern (EST) time zone business hours may apply.  Emory reserves the right to change this status with notice to employee.  Emory does not approve as a primary work location in the following states; NJ, AK, and HI, any U.S. Territories or outside of the United States.

Additional Details

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