Job Title: IDAM Engineer
Location: Oxford Road, Manchester
Salary: £37,174 – £45,413 per annum depending on relevant experience
Job type: Full Time, Permanent – 1.0 FTE
Closing date: 01/04/2025
About IT Services:
IT Services at the University of Manchester is a vibrant and fast-moving department, we focus on delivering excellent customer service and quality services for our staff, students and researchers.
The Team:
This is an exciting opportunity to work within one of the UK’s largest universities and help deliver the University of Manchester’s vision to become a world leading university. Supporting the delivery of this vision via the authentication, directory and identity management services which are managed and developed by Identity and Access Management team (IDAM).
You will be working in a core IT team to provide directory, identity and access management Services to over 50,000 students and staff. The team support and manage authentication and identity utilising a range of technologies, ensuring secure, seamless access to university systems, supporting the entire identity lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding.
The Role:
You will, as part of the team, support all aspects of the identity lifecycle, including onboarding and offboarding of staff and students as well as managing and maintaining the underlying directories and authentication protocols to provision and assure appropriate and relevant access throughout a user’s journey. This may include set up of and maintenance of Groups, fault finding through the systems, access review activity, getting involved in the development and design of new or existing solutions, working closely with Project teams as well as or staff and students to support IDAM queries.
The role will be working within a multidiscipline team and there is opportunity to work and gain experience across the IDAM capabilities, you will work closely with and be supported by Senior engineers as well as with our IDAM Administrators to manage and support resolution of incidents and requests.
The Person:
Are you passionate about Identity and Access Management, do you have demonstrable experience in an IDAM oriented role, can you bring your expertise and skills to a Higher Education environment which is complex and evolving?
We are looking for a highly technical IDAM Administrator/Engineer to be a part of our highly skilled and ambitious IDAM team. You should possess in-depth knowledge, hands-on experience in the technologies we support, and an excellent understanding of IDAM principles and policies. You will also need to be able to work closely with colleagues in other areas including the Support Centre, Infrastructure, and Networks for example, as well as our Security and Architecture teams therefore good collaboration and communication skills are essential.
Essential role requirements:
- Demonstrable experience working in an IDAM engineering role or equivalent Security related discipline.
- Excellent understanding of and experience delivering IDAM concepts (e.g. access control, SSO, federation, MFA, identity lifecycle management, Privileged access management, RBAC, Access reviews, separation of duties etc.);
- and how these concepts work together to create a secure IDAM environment.
- Hands on experience of IDAM protocols and frameworks such as SAML, OAuth, LDAP, Shibboleth, Active Directory or similar directory services (OpenID Connect is a plus!)
- Be able to evidence good collaborative working within IT and beyond, demonstrating good communication skills (working as part of a project or incident team for example)
Desirable:
- Knowledge of and experience of working with NetIQ/OpenText technologies
- Experience working with a large enterprise distributed computing HE environment
- Experience working with Project teams in an Agile or Waterfall environment
- Ability to learn new technologies to help support some of our existing and developing services
- Experience of or understanding of IGA solutions – Familiarity and experience with one or more leading IGA technologies (Okta, SailPoint, OpenText, One Identity etc…)
- Linux experience – Understanding of Linux operating systems and relevant technologies
- Desirable qualifications: CIMP, CIAM, CIST, CAMS, CDP.
What can you expect in return:
Our diverse job opportunities all include a top benefits package that includes many features that are hard to find in the private sector:
- Generous annual leave allowance, including Christmas/New Year closure;
- Pension scheme membership to provide benefits for you and your family;
- Well-being programme with counselling, fitness and leading sports facilities;
- Learning and development opportunities;
- Season ticket loans for public transport;
- Cycle to Work Scheme;
- Workplace nursery scheme;
- Staff recognition schemes;
- Staff discounts on a range of products and services including travel and high street savings.
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Candidates with experience or relevant job titles of; Identity and Access Management Engineer, IAM Specialist, IAM Analyst, IAM Consultant, IAM System Architect, and IAM System Engineer may also be considered for this role.
