IAM Production Support Engineer (SSO)

Sopra Steria · Singapore

Company Description

Sopra Steria is a listed European technology leader specializing in Consulting, Digital Services, and Software. With over 51,000 employees worldwide across Europe, North America and Asia, the Group supports organizations in driving their digital transformation and delivering sustainable business value.
In Asia Pacific, Singapore serves as the regional headquarter for Sopra Steria’s Infrastructure, Cloud and Cybersecurity services.

For this position, we are looking for IAM Production Support L2 Engineer (SSO) to assist one of our key clients – a leading global investment bank.

Job Description

You will be part of the SSO team, which provide identity and access management tooling as a middleware delivery team. The work on authentication and authorisation for both internal and external customers. Using several standardised frameworks, the team maintains and governs access policies and works to deliver technologies to ensure that the right entities have the appropriate access to technology resources.

You will be part of multi-geographical (presence in 3 regions and 6 locations) and multi-disciplined team, providing support and project delivery for the SSO and Identity Management platforms in the following topics:

Architecture
Project Delivery
Platform Support and Maintenance
Incident and Problem Management
Change Management
General

The candidate will also be well versed with cryptographic notions such as RSA, symmetric and asymmetric, encryption, certificates and digital signatures etc

Responsibilities:

The jobholder will be part of a multi-disciplined team, providing support and enhancement for the SSO and Identity Management platforms. The role is focused on production support, and requires a wide range of technical skills. The Production Engineer will work closely and in partnership with development and infrastructure.

Platform Support and Maintenance

Pro-actively monitor, manage and improve availability and performance of the production environments (from presentation and application layers to Infrastructure layers)
Pro-actively manage the capacity of production applications
Customize production tools (monitoring, deployment, scheduling etc.)
Provide feedback and propose solutions to management on performance, capacity and design issues

Incident and Problem Management

To work with partner teams to conduct analysis of major and critical incidents.
To identify tactical or strategic improvements that can be introduced to help reduce the number of on-going incidents within the SSO and IDM area.

Change Management

To work within the change management framework adopted and to ensure that all changes to the production environment are planned and executed in a controlled manner.
To take responsibility for the quality of changes within the SSO and IDM environments, ensuring that changes raised are of sufficient standard in terms of technical and planning detail.
Change preparation and deployment following standard application deployment tools and methodology

The Production Engineer will also work with other teams to respond to incidents and resolve issues promptly, often under pressure, to restore normal services to the business. Therefore, ability to be on call and provide support out of hours is essential.

As this is a production support role, focusing across a range of different and evolving technologies, candidates must possess the aptitude and desire to learn.

General

Perform pre-assigned tasks to accomplish the function responsible for.
Work cooperatively with the other members of the team
Ensure adherence to processes and procedures
Request improvement of knowledge (training) when needed
Apply own initiative, within the levels of acceptable risk
Whenever in doubt, escalate and seek advice and guidance
If the nature of the position is user-facing, then all the guidelines and principles of user service mentality and behaviour should be applied
Escalate risks / issues to the manager of the team
Minimise operational failure, including but not exclusively, the risk of fraud, by helping to devise, and by implementing, sufficient regular controls.
Ensure appropriate escalation to management and/or Permanent Control (or Compliance as appropriate) as soon as an issue is identified.
Provide a direct contribution to the operational permanent control framework.

Qualifications

Requirements:

Technical Skills essential for the role include, but not limited to:

CA Siteminder Web SSO
Autoprovisionning tools such as BMC ControlSA, Sailpoint, or Forgerock
LDAP
Application Server: Good exposure in configuring and supporting web technologies such as Tomcat, Apache,
nginx, IIS
SOA security - SAML / WS-Security
Kerberos / SSL/TLS / PKI / GSS-API / SPNEGO
IIS/WCF/WIF, WAS security models
Infrastructure standards for network load balancers, servers, networks and storage
Automation mind-set with experience in using tools like Ansible
Scripting skills using Python or shell
Proven logical and methodical problem analysis and troubleshooting skills
Working with an industry recognised service desk and project management toolset
Clear communicator in both written and oral forms

Desirable:

oAuth2, OpenIDConnect
SQL, Database schema
Authentication services for APIs
Exposure to Apigee API gateway
Knowledge of Process & Quality management, ITIL v2/v3
Microsoft Project, Advanced Excel, PowerPoint and Word
Knowledge of Atlasian Jira Task Management toolset
Previously used ServiceNow as a Service Desk Management product

Additional Information

•Work-life balance: Hybrid working mode and Work-from-Abroad benefits, 18 days of Annual leave
Health & insurance: Comprehensive coverage including General Practitioner, hospitalization, dental, and optical
•Performance incentives: Annual bonus based on individual performance
•Learning & development: Training programs, certification opportunities, and training incentives to support career growth
•Team culture: Regular team-building activities and social events

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