An organization is looking for an IAM / IGA Operations Engineer to strengthen its Identity & Access (IAM) Management team. The IAM team is responsible for the management, availability, and evolution of the central identity platforms within the organization. These platforms are an essential part of the security infrastructure and support authentication, authorization, and identity lifecycle processes. The environment includes the following technologies:
- Keycloak (IAM - authentication and authorization)
- MidPoint (IGA - identity lifecycle management)
The assignment is situated in a critical production environment, with high requirements for stability, performance, and security. The consultant will play a key role in the operational management, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management of these platforms, in close collaboration with infrastructure and development teams.
What you do
The consultant will be responsible for the operational management and continuous improvement of IAM and IGA platforms, focusing on stability, security, and performance. Tasks include, among others:
- Performing daily operational tasks on IAM and IGA platforms
- Monitoring the IAM stack and following up on alerts
- Analyzing and interpreting logs (Keycloak, MidPoint, infrastructure)
- Managing TLS certificates and IdP certificates (SAML / OIDC)
- Working with and supporting databases (PostgreSQL, MariaDB)
- Actively contributing to the stability and performance of the platforms
- Analyzing and resolving incidents and technical problems
- Performing in-depth root cause analyses
- Troubleshooting authentication, authorization, and provisioning issues
- Restarting and restoring platforms (Keycloak / MidPoint) in case of incidents
- Identifying the correct cause (IAM vs other systems) and escalating correctly
- Proposing and implementing structural solutions
- Managing the full lifecycle of the platforms
- Performing minor upgrades
- Preparing and executing major upgrades and migrations
- Validating installations and configurations across different environments
- Configuring and maintaining Keycloak and MidPoint
- Implementing authentication flows, roles, policies, and provisioning rules
- Detecting and correcting security risks in configurations
- Defining and applying best practices
- Managing and optimizing joiner / mover / leaver processes
- Managing roles and access models
- Onboarding new applications onto IAM platforms
- Integrating applications via OIDC / OAuth2 and SAML
What they ask
- At least 5 years of experience
- Good knowledge of French, Dutch
- Establishing analysis criteria for user experiences
- Drawing up technical specifications
- Designing the architecture of an information system
- Analyzing business processes
- Analyzing the performance of an information system
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