Identity Access Management Consultant

Position:  Identity Access Management Consultant

Location: Toronto, ON (Onsite)

Job ID#:  RQ11268 

Duration:  7 Months

Role Overview

We are seeking two Junior Identity Access Management Consultants to support enterprise-scale Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and Identity & Access Management (IAM) environments. The role focuses on supporting, maintaining, upgrading, securing, and enhancing mission-critical IAM and PKI systems while collaborating with stakeholders, infrastructure teams, and application owners to deliver reliable identity services.

Key Responsibilities

1. PKI Environment Support & Modernization

• Support PKI environments across Development, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Production environments.
  
• Upgrade Entrust Certificate Authority platforms from legacy versions to current supported releases.
  
• Assist with migration initiatives to managed cloud-based PKI services.
  
• Implement disaster recovery sites for Certificate Authority infrastructure.
  
• Configure and support Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
  
• Upgrade directory services platforms and related technologies.
  
• Execute proof-of-concepts for new PKI-related services.
  
• Monitor system health, performance, availability, and service status.
  
• Start, stop, backup, restore, and recover service components as required.
  
• Perform system tuning and optimization activities.
  
• Apply patches, renew certificates, and maintain software licensing requirements.
  
• Triage, analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve incidents related to PKI services.
  
• Identify and resolve application and infrastructure problems affecting IAM and PKI environments.
  
• Assess the impact of proposed changes from clients and service providers.
  
• Document support procedures, maintenance requirements, and operational processes.
  
• Work with software vendors when extended support or escalation is required.
  

2. Production Support & On-Call Services

• Provide 24x7 on-call support for production environments.
  
• Provide scheduled support coverage for non-production environments.
  
• Participate in incident management as a coordinator, analyst, or SME.
  
• Participate in change management activities as a coordinator, analyst, or SME.
  
• Support networking infrastructure components including:
  
• Load Balancers
  
• Firewalls
  
• Proxy Servers
  
• Gateways
  
• Routers
  
• Provide application support across IAM and PKI technology stacks.
  

3. Application Integration Services

• Support client integrations with enterprise PKI and IAM platforms.
  
• Analyze technical requirements and design appropriate integration solutions.
  
• Develop and document integration patterns, standards, and approaches.
  
• Create processes and plans that support successful integrations.
  
• Construct, test, and deploy integration solutions.
  
• Troubleshoot and resolve integration-related issues.
  
• Develop utilities, scripts, applets, and reports to automate integration processes.
  
• Document integration designs and implementation approaches.
  

4. Support Tool Enhancement

• Develop requirements for operational support tools.
  
• Evaluate and recommend new tools and solutions.
  
• Install and configure support tooling.
  
• Develop, test, and deploy scripts, queries, reports, procedures, and automation solutions.
  
• Document operational support requirements and procedures.
  

5. Disaster Recovery Support

• Assist in implementing disaster recovery solutions for future PKI applications.
  
• Define, document, and maintain operational disaster recovery procedures and processes.
  

6. System Management & Monitoring

• Define, document, configure, implement, and test system management processes.
  
• Establish monitoring standards, metrics, thresholds, and alerting mechanisms.
  
• Implement monitoring and operational alerting solutions.
  
• Work with hosting and infrastructure providers to implement system management procedures.
  
• Document system administration and operational processes.
  

7. Knowledge Transfer & Team Development

• Contribute to role definitions and support models for PKI sustainment teams.
  
• Develop knowledge transfer plans and learning activities.
  
• Create plans to transition support functions to internal teams.
  
• Deliver knowledge transfer sessions and documentation.
  
• Support a culture of operational excellence and continuous improvement.
  

Required Qualifications

Large Application Solutions & Technologies

• 10+ years of experience sustaining commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) Identity and Access Management solutions, including administration, operations, support, monitoring, patching, and troubleshooting.
  
• At least 4 years supporting implementations with more than 10,000 registered users.
  
• 10+ years of experience designing, developing, deploying, and supporting large-scale application implementations using:
  
• Entrust PKI Suite
  
• Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)
  
• LDAP Tools (e.g., Apache Directory Studio, LDAP command-line tools)
  
• Microsoft IIS
  
• Apache HTTPD
  
• IBM Web Server
  
• NGINX
  
• Oracle WebLogic
  
• SQL
  
• Oracle Database 11g or later
  
• Solaris
  
• Windows
  
• AIX
  
• Linux
  
• Experience with ITIL processes including:
  
• Service Level Management
  
• Problem Management
  
• Change Management
  
• Release Management
  
• Capacity Management
  
• Strong experience investigating, troubleshooting, and resolving complex IAM-related incidents and problems.
  
• Experience supporting change and release management processes for large-scale applications.
  
• Experience with automated testing tools such as:
  
• Team Foundation Server (TFS)
  
• Robot Framework
  
• GOSS
  
• SikuliX
  
• Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
  
• Strong verbal, written, interpersonal, and negotiation skills.
  

Identity & Access Management Expertise

• Minimum 4 years of experience working with Entrust PKI environments.
  
• Strong knowledge of security technologies including:
  
• PKI
  
• PMI
  
• SSL/TLS
  
• Encryption technologies
  
• Authentication technologies
  

Quality Assurance & Release Management

• 10+ years of experience applying quality assurance and quality control methodologies within large enterprise application environments.
  
• Experience serving as a central point of contact for operational incidents and problem management activities.
  

Must-Have Skills

• 10+ years administering and supporting enterprise IAM environments.
  
• 10+ years designing and supporting large-scale implementations using Entrust PKI Suite and Oracle Identity Manager.
  
• Extensive experience with ITIL service management processes.
  
• Experience supporting environments with 10,000+ users.
  
• Strong troubleshooting, diagnostics, and problem-resolution capabilities.
  

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