Digital Identity Security Consultant

and experiences**

• Are experienced in consulting and advisory discussions with clients and other consulting firms.

• Proven understanding of Active Directory and legacy authentication protocols (LDAP, Kerberos, NTLM, etc.).

• Proven understanding of Entra ID and Entra ID Domain Services (and respective scenarios).

• Experience with modern authentication protocols and integrating applications using those protocols.

• Experience leading small to medium project general design and delivery (solution architecture and associated infrastructure or business and functional requirements).

• Understanding of the business, privacy, security, and compliance challenges surrounding Digital Identities and a passion for solving these challenges for clients.

• Experience of privileged access management solutions and an understanding of secrets management.

What you'll do

• • Develop and implement modern authentication solutions using OAuth, SAML, ID/Access/Refresh Token, and Claim Rules Transformation.

  • Manage identities using Microsoft Entra ID, including SSO, Application proxy, Authentication methods, and Authentication Strength.

  • Oversee identity management processes such as JML/IGA, with product agnostic understanding of identity principles for various products like SailPoint, Savyint, OneIdentity, and Okta.

  • Understanding and experience with Entra Application Provisioning, including SCIM and Custom Attribute Schema.

  • Understanding and experience with Entra Identities, including members, external, and client identities.

  • Understanding and experience with Microsoft Entra ID to manage identities, conditional access, MFA, and identity governance.

  • Understanding and experience with creation and maintenance of automation scripts using PowerShell and Azure automation tools.

  • Understanding and experience with developing integrations and custom identity workflows using Microsoft Graph API.

  • Understanding and experience with basic security principles, secure coding practices, and threat mitigation strategies.

  • Understanding and experience with developing, troubleshooting, and maintaining custom code and tools, preferably using .NET/C# or Python.

  • Understanding and experience with IAM lifecycle management concepts, including provisioning and deprovisioning workflows.

  • Understanding and experience with the configuration of monitoring, logging, and alerting for IAM solutions using tools like Sentinel and Defender.

  • Understanding and experience with analysing complex IAM issues, troubleshooting, and implementing solutions.

  • Ability to communicate effectively and collaborate with team members and stakeholders.

  • Ability to work within agile methodologies, contributing to backlog items and continuous improvement.

Learn more

Avanade is the leading global provider of digital, cloud, AI and advisory services, industry solutions and design-led experiences across the Microsoft ecosystem. Founded in 2000 as a joint venture between Accenture LLP and Microsoft Corporation, Avanade has more certifications, Gold-level competencies and most valued professionals (MVPs) than any other Microsoft partner. Every day, our 60,000 professionals in 26 countries innovate responsibly to make a genuine human impact for our clients, their employees and their customers.

To learn more about the types of projects our Security team works on check out this info:

Avanade Security - Are you Doing Enough? https://https://www.avanade.com/en/solutions/security-service-solutions?videoid=6311944004112
EDF Client Story | Avanade https://https://www.avanade.com/en/clients/edf
Zurich Client Story | Avanade https://https://www.avanade.com/en/clients/zurich
A Catastrophic Cyber Event. Are You Ready? https://https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights/security/catastrophic-cyber-attack
The New World of Decentralized Identity https://https://www.avanade.com/en-us/solutions/security-service-solutions/digital-identity

Interested in knowing what's going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:

Avanade Insights – exchange ideas that drive tomorrow's innovation https://https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights
Inside Avanade – explore what life is like working at Avanade https://https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

• Opportunity to work for Microsoft's Global Alliance Partner of the Year, with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)

• Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally

• Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth

• Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

Find out more about some of our benefits Employee Benefits at Avanade | Avanade

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you will get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and communities. You'll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It's all here, so take a closer look!

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• Empowering every voice
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Accelerate the impact of our people by

• Amazing the client
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