IAM Specialist

Arctiq
Whitpain Township, PA
Job Description
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced technical professional to join our team to manage and oversee the integration of AWS and Azure services, focusing on implementing an inventory system for all approved services, including IAM resources and policies, and ensuring the security, efficiency, and consistency of our cloud operations.

Requirements

  • Maintain an inventory of all approved AWS and Azure services.
  • Catalog IAM resources, differentiate between AWS control plane resources (roles, policies) and local resources.
  • Identify and inventory local data plane resources (user/keys/roles/policies/groups) and manage their credentials in vaults.
  • Ensure resource policies are applied across services.
  • Utilize tools like Wiz for inventory, reporting, and evidence collection, with correlation back to AWS/Azure documentation.
  • Identify and manage external dependencies, including secrets, keys, and policies.
  • Develop a comprehensive metadata tagging strategy mapped to ASL, environment, and repository association.
  • Define and document approved access patterns for services and users, aligning with predefined roles like Reader, Contributor, and Administrator.
  • Design and build modules for each service access pattern to be published in the service registry.
  • Establish methods to correlate modules with service resource policies and user roles/policies.
  • Inventory and maintain controls pertinent to IAM and Cloud Standards for each service.
  • Develop methodologies to identify conditions for using
  • pre-approved
  • service registry modules via pipelines.
  • Define criteria for pre-approval and manual review processes, detailing the manual review procedure.
  • Formulate request and approval processes for new modules.
  • Outline the pre-approval process, including pipeline and approval authority.
  • Implement a
  • shift-left
  • strategy to proactively address IAM cloud operations staffing.
  • Document IAM configurations for pipelines and repositories.
  • Develop and maintain IAM SDLC documentation.
  • Offer recommendations on team structure, roles, skillsets, and resourcing needs.
  • Define the support structure, including Service Desk, Global Command Center, Cloud Operations, and Cloud Engineering.
  • Develop a comprehensive IAM Cloud program and define its functions.
  • Provide strategic recommendations and design structured processes for cloud operations.

Benefits

  • Competitive pay
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