IAM System Engineer

Position: System Engineer - IAM

DK Consulting Overview: Founded in May 2003 DK Consulting LLC a woman-owned small business was formed to provide management and technology solutions based on industry best practices. DK Consulting LLC works with multiple State Federal and Commercial customers and our services range from providing customers with that one critical resource to assuming responsibility for an entire IT project.

The client is seeking a skilled Systems Engineer to strengthen their Hybrid cloud security posture across Active Directory Microsoft Azure AD and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) while also advancing their Identity and Access Management (IAM) program. The IAM engineer will work closely with security technicians to improve cloud security controls streamline monitoring and migrate existing security products and log sources into Microsoft Sentinel SIEM for centralized visibility and response

Client: Baltimore County Public Schools

Work Location: Baltimore County Hybrid (4 days remote and 1 day onsite)

Interview Mode: In person

Responsibilities:

• Install configure and maintain Windows Servers that deliver services for the organizations environment.
• Work closely with vendors to identify performance issues and schedule updates and patches.
• Develop and implement scripts and utilities to automate system and application administration and maintenance tasks.
• Support the process of maintaining appropriate operating system software levels to ensure a secure and stable environment.
• Participate in architectural and design decisions.
• Participate in disaster recovery and business continuity planning and implementation.
• Works on multiple project requests. Engage vendors of applications and systems to assist with best practice implementations and troubleshooting.
• Participate in establishing effective and efficient governance policies to aid in the management and effectiveness of the service.
• Coordinate system testing and assists users with acceptance testing to ensure product being delivered meets project requirements.
• Design develop and support technology solutions that integrate ancillary tools with core enterprise systems in order to enhance the value and services to clients.
• Work with the various district systems engineers to maintain current stable and highly available systems architecture.
• Research and provide guidance on new technology solutions focusing on increasing the effectiveness and efficiency of our clients business and educational processes.
• Document work including commenting code preparing release notes and updating end user documentation.
• Write and document solution specifications.
• Use configuration management tools such as source code repository to ensure that work is both integrated into overall solution and backed up.

Required Skills:

• Two years IAM experience to include designing implementing and maintaining systems that control user access to digital resources and data.
• Two years experience with implementation and integration of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) software into existing architectures. Customer service and support experience preferred.
• Knowledge of the Systems Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and its application in the development of technology solutions.

• Knowledge of business and educational operations processes and procedures.
• Knowledge of computer systems servers Local Area Networks programming and script development.
• Knowledge of current Microsoft Windows operating system administration and industry best practices.
• Skill in working with virtual servers such as VMWare and Hyper-V
• Skill in installing configuring and maintaining IIS
• Skill in project management and program planning.
• Skill in administering network servers such as application servers web servers SOL servers.
• Skill in programming scripts and utilities to automate administrative and service oriented tasks.
• Skill in evaluating technology and recommending network server configurations and architectures.
• Skill in communicating to all levels of users.
• Skill in maintaining documentation for network configurations equipment and procedures and analyzing testing and implementing architectural designs that support new and existing business applications.
• Skill in the use of Microsoft Office productivity tools.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to create articulate document and execute a plan for completing a solutions development task including component-level design and assumptions.
• Ability to estimate level of effort to complete component-level tasks.
• Ability to prioritize and multitask.
• Ability to learn new languages frameworks and development platforms.
• Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships.
• Ability and willingness to work under the technical direction of a senior engineer or consultant.
• Ability to work with little technical oversight on projects.
• Ability to communicate technical issues risks and approaches to direct reports peers superiors and clients.
• Ability to engage client on clients domain level to provide feedback on business and technical issues discuss risks and offer alternative solutions.
• Ability to work independently and follow through on assignments.
• Ability to perform under various levels of urgency and meet deadlines.

Education: Graduation from an accredited college or university with an associates degree in computer science or a related field plus two years of experience in enterprise system implementations operations and maintenance.

*No Visa restrictions*