Lead Ping Identity Engineer

As the Lead Ping Identity Engineer you will serve as the foremost hands-on technical authority for the Ping Identity / ForgeRock platforms. You will drive the platforms engineering automation and complex deployments to ensure a robust secure and highly functional IAM environment. Beyond hands-on engineering you will act as a dedicated mentor and internal trainer leveraging your background as a Certified Ping Instructor to upskill guide and support junior and medior engineers on complex Ping tooling and deployment strategies.

Core Responsibilities:

• Technical Implementation & Execution: Serve as the primary technical expert for the IAM platform. Configure deploy and troubleshoot complex identity protocols including SAML OIDC SCIM RBAC and ABAC within the Ping ecosystem.
• Technical Mentorship & Team Enablement: Act as the internal educator and escalation point for the engineering team. Conduct technical workshops mentor junior/medior colleagues and guide the team through complex Ping implementations and best practices.
• Platform Engineering: Build automate and maintain cloud-native IAM infrastructures using advanced Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and highly automated CI/CD pipelines ensuring the highest standards of code quality.
• Infrastructure & Environment Management: Implement and enforce strict standards for secure version control deployment environments and secrets management across the identity lifecycle.
• Onboarding & Integration Execution: Lead the hands-on technical onboarding of critical business applications seamlessly integrating systems and enforcing identity governance controls.
• Resilience & Recovery: Implement the technical controls necessary to meet RPO/RTO requirements executing Disaster Recovery setups and maintaining high availability across all IAM environments.
• Zero-Trust Execution: Technically implement and strictly enforce least-privilege access and continuous authentication principles to align the IAM platform with the enterprise Zero-Trust framework.
• Agile Technical Delivery: Drive hands-on technical delivery within Scrum/Kanban frameworks unblocking the engineering team maintaining high code and documentation standards and fostering a culture of continuous technical improvement.

Required Technical Profile:

• Experience: Minimum 10 years of highly demonstrable enterprise-level experience in IAM engineering complex infrastructure deployment and technical enablement.
• Mentorship & Training: Proven track record of upskilling engineering teams. Must possess the ability to translate technical designs and IAM workflows into actionable training for less experienced colleagues.
• Education: Masters degree in Cybersecurity Cryptanalysis & Forensics (or equivalent extensive practical experience).
• Certifications: Certified Ping Instructor (PingAM PingIDM PingDS Ping Gateway PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud Ping One Davinci) is strictly required to facilitate internal team enablement and training. Additional advanced technical certifications in the Ping/ForgeRock ecosystem are highly preferred.
• Agile Mindset: Extensive experience delivering technical initiatives within Scrum or Kanban teams. Ability to deliver and enforce Definition of Done (DoD) compliant code and robust technical documentation. Advanced proficiency with Agile tooling (e.g. Jira Confluence Azure DevOps).
• Tooling & DevOps: Master-level expertise in Version Control (Git) and CI/CD workflows combined with authoritative hands-on experience using Infrastructure as Code (Terraform Ansible etc.). Ability to review debug and optimize team code.
• Specialized Expertise: Direct authoritative hands-on technical expertise with PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud and the broader ForgeRock ecosystem.

Skills:

• Agile Scrum
• coaching and training employees
• DevOps
• Docker / Kubernetes
• OAUTH2/SAML
• One Identity
• Ping Gateway
• PingAM
• PingDS
• PingIDM
• PingOne Advanced Identity Cloud
• PingOne Davinci
• Prince2
• SailPoint IdentityIQ

Required Skills:

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