Identity & Access Management Engineer

at  Perdue Farms

Perdue Farms is a family-owned food and agriculture company now in its second century of growth and innovation. We were founded on trust—a value that carries through everything we do. Perdue Foods is a leader in Premium Proteins and Perdue AgriBusiness ranks among the top US grain companies.

SUMMARY

We are recruiting for an experienced IAM Engineer. The Identity and Access Management (IAM) Engineer will provide expertise, knowledge, and operational execution of Perdue’s Identity Management landscape and functions, including provisioning, federation, access reviews, authentication, and access management for the cloud and on-premise solutions. This role with work closely with cross-functional teams to engineer, rationalize, and support IAM toolsets and services, including SSO, MFA and PAM, to a deliver a coherent future state of our IAM footprint and solutions that drive business growth and performance. The role will also be responsible for working with customers, IT teams and service provider teams to review and process security requests, continuously improve service delivery, and meeting compliance requirements.

EDUCATION LEVEL:

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field or in lieu of a Bachelor’s degree, an additional four (4) years of relevant work experience is required in addition to the required work experience.

EXPERIENCE:

• At least 5 years of experience in IT and 3 years with demonstrated expertise in IAM implementation and operations with an IAM technology (e.g. Ping, Okta Saviynt, Beyond Trust, Sailpoint, CyberArk etc).
• Extensive knowledge and experience with identity and access management concepts, such as single sign-on (SSO), multifactor authentication (MFA), privileged access management (PAM), etc.
• Experience executing identity and access governance, role-based access control, access request and certification, and user life cycle management processes.
• Deep Knowledge of Active Directory, SAML 2.0, OIDC, WebAuth, MFA Mechanisms (including PassKey), and other related Authentication and Single Sign On/Federation Services technologies.
• Demonstratable experience developing and supporting custom integrations with third party tools.
• Functional experience with commonly used coding languages such as Powershell, Python, or Javascript.
• Practical experience using APIs, SQL queries/commands, and LDAP integrations.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to effectively communicate complex cybersecurity and IT issues and concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
• Experience with SAP, Cloud Services, IoT, and mobile workforce use cases are beneficial.

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS AND PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS

Position is mostly sedentary but may require occasional moving to other offices or buildings.
May need to move light equipment or supplies from one place to another.
May need to access files, supplies and equipment.
Work activity is in an office, open-partitioned, cubicle environment.
Perdue Farms, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status

• Drive integration, delivery, and support of Identity and Access Management (ID&IAM), Single Sign On (SSO), Multifactor Authentication (MFA), and Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions.
• Work with business and application owners to identify requirements, provide consultation of security requirements, identify workflow and use cases, and integration of access solutions across the enterprise.
• Aligns IAM processes across the organization and develop and document standards for organizational use.
• Automate user onboarding, offboarding, role changes, account certification and ensuring adherence to security policies and compliance requirements.
• Define and enforce access control policies, including role-based access control (RBAC), least privilege principle, and segregation of duties (SoD).
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including IT, security, and compliance, to ensure IAM aligns with business goals.
• Troubleshoot, identify, and resolve technical identity and access management related issues.
• Provide post implementation support and regular system maintenance and support which will periodically require off-hours, weekend, and on-call support