Hybrid Principal Systems Engineer – IAM

at EEOC

• Job title: Principal Systems Engineer – IAM
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: $154,000 - $232,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Chicago, United States

About the role

• Principal Systems Engineer at Early Warning designing and implementing IAM security solutions. Focused on safeguarding financial system integrity through advanced technology platforms.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with technology and business leaders to lead the development and implementation of IAM strategies aligned with organizational security objectives.
• Architect, design, and enhance IAM solutions, with a focus on PKI, identity management, and privileged access management.
• Establishes vendor relationships to evaluate various technologies and associated costs to ensure technology meets business requirements and budget forecasts.
• Evaluate, select, and implement IAM platforms to ensure effective identity lifecycle management, authentication, and authorization.
• Design and implement privileged access management solutions to safeguard critical systems and data.
• Establish and enforce policies for privileged account usage and monitor compliance with security standards.
• Ensure IAM solutions comply with relevant industry regulations and internal security policies.
• Contribute to the development of security governance frameworks and provide expertise in security audits.
• Mentors, trains, coaches, guides Systems Engineers.
• Applies direction/ feedback from management to continually improve performance and service levels.
• Designs, develops, documents, tests and debugs new and existing configuration management patterns and infrastructure as code.
• Performs systems engineering, installation, configuration, and maintenance of assigned technology responsibilities.
• Works collaboratively with other technology and business teams to gather requirements and develop technology standards.
• Engages vendor partners to evaluate, test and implement technology solutions that meet business requirements.
• Implements and reviews systems monitoring to ensure platform availability and optimal performance.
• Analyzes systems health data and makes recommendations to improve performance, prevent service degradation and ensure high availability of technology platforms.
• Provides systems production support, reporting and monitoring of availability for IT Systems.
• Provides escalation support to resolve escalated and complex hardware/software related problems as tier III support, diagnose issues, performs root cause analysis and implements mitigating measures of assigned technology platforms.
• Implements defined changes to existing hardware and operating system infrastructure such as security patches, non-security patches and technology upgrades in support of vulnerability management, emerging threats and lifecycle management.
• Creates and/or edits technology policies, procedures and associated documentation.
• Interacts with internal customers and external vendors to provide quality customer service.
• Support existing technology infrastructure in an on-call capacity as part of a team rotation.
• A technical expert that is continuously learning and keeping abreast of new technologies and industry best practices and finding ways to bring those practices into the engineering organization.
• Completes work in a timely and accurate manner while providing exceptional customer service.
• Participates in and follow change management processes for change implementation.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Requirements

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor's degree.
• 15 years of progressive systems or software engineering experience with 10+ years of experience in Identity and Access Management, Active Directory architecture and security, with significant focus on enterprise-scale environments.
• Strong understanding of security compliance frameworks, governance, and risk management.
• In-depth knowledge of network protocols, Active Directory, and security best practices.
• Must be able to demonstrate practical knowledge and use of Birthright Applications, Role-Based-Access, Least Privileged Access and other forms of security.
• Must demonstrate strong attention to detail.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze and disseminate information with attention to detail and accuracy.
• This position requires excellent communication, interpersonal and customer service skills, including attentive and active listening to identify and address customer needs.
• Good communication, interpersonal and customer service skills, including attentive and active listening to identify and address customer needs.
• Customer service skills including the ability to manage and respond to different customer situations while maintaining a positive and friendly attitude is essential.
• Progressive experience managing professional relationships with vendors/ contractors is necessary.
• Proven ability to establish mutually beneficial relationships through negotiations, coordination, professionalism, courtesy and managing expectations is required.
• Collaboration, facilitation, and negotiation skills are required.
• The ability to work efficiently and accurately under pressure, meet deadlines, present a professional demeanor and work well independently is essential.
• Must possess strong organizational skills, including the ability to multi-task and manage multiple projects to meet various deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• A working knowledge of Microsoft office, including skills with Word, Excel, and Outlook are necessary.
• Background and drug screen.

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Paid Time Off – Unlimited Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.
• And SO much more!