Federated Security Engineer - OIT

About this role

Discover Your Career at Emory University: Emory University is a leading research university that fosters excellence and attracts world-class talent to innovate today and prepare leaders for the future. We welcome candidates who can contribute to the excellence of our academic community. Description:

The Federated Security Engineer is a detail-oriented and proactive technical professional, with Identity and Access Management (IAM) expertise and a foundational experience in Cybersecurity as it relates to applications and secure access. This role focuses on managing and optimizing our central secure application access ecosystem, including onboarding/updating/offboarding applications, maintaining an up-to-date CMDB and application catalog, and supporting the integration of applications with our Single Sign-On (SSO) solution (Entra ID and Shibboleth IDP).

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Collaborates with the Cybersecurity and IAM teams to ensure secure onboarding and offboarding of applications into the SSO environment.
• Designs or consults on the application integration approach to enable secure access/SSO.
• Validates and maintains application integration configurations to meet cybersecurity and compliance requirements.
• Assists in developing and ensuring alignment of implementations or changes with access control policies and security standards.
• Supports audits and compliance reviews related to IAM and application integrations by facilitating responses via the proper SMEs.
• Maintains the CI's that relate to federated applications in the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), ensuring application records are accurate, complete, and current.
• Manages the application catalog to ensure all integrated applications are tracked with appropriate metadata (e.g., owners, contacts, technical details, integration type).
• Leverages ServiceNow to manage requests, incidents, and changes related to application integrations and IAM processes.
• Coordinates application onboarding ...