True Zero Technologies, LLC
Identity Management Engineer / Architect (R-00197)
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Design, implement, and operate enterprise IAM/ICAM platforms across on-prem, cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments. Implement automated provisioning, federation (SAML/OIDC/OAuth/SCIM), PAM, IGA, PIV/CAC and phishing‑resistant MFA. Integrate AWS identity services, enforce least‑privilege access and FICAM alignment, automate workflows, monitor/authentication events, perform access reviews, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to onboard and secure applications.
True Zero Technologies, a veteran-owned small business, was founded on the principle that the purposeful enablement of people and technology in an organization directly ties to the quality of its outcomes. True Zero recognizes that those outcomes begin and end with our people, and that is what we have built a community of like-minded, driven, and passionate individuals and innovators who are aligned in a common goal of delivering top-tier services to our customers. Our culture and commitment have been recognized through numerous accolades, including being named one of the Best Places to Work in 2023 in two categories (“Prosperous and Thriving” ($5MM–$50MM in gross revenue) and “Mid-Atlantic Region” (DC, DE, MD, NC, VA, WV)), and again in 2025 as a Best Places to Work honoree. In addition, True Zero earned coveted spots on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in America in 2022, 2023, and 2025, a testament to our sustained growth driven by our people-first approach and unwavering dedication to excellence.
The Identity Management Engineer / Architect designs, implements, and operates a secure, scalable enterprise identity platform spanning on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments. The role is responsible for automated identity provisioning and deprovisioning, strong authentication, least-privilege access, modern application federation, privileged account management, and continuous identity governance, monitoring, and auditing.
This position is foundational to the Zero Trust identity pillar and ensures that users, administrators, applications, and workloads receive appropriate access based on verified identity, policy, risk, and mission requirements. The engineer/architect will support government and regulated environments through PIV/CAC smart-card authentication, phishing-resistant MFA, FICAM-aligned identity practices, privileged-access controls, and secure integration across enterprise identity platforms.
Job Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and operate enterprise IAM / ICAM architectures supporting on-premises, cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments.
- Engineer and maintain directory services, including Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID where included in the approved architecture.
- Design and automate user provisioning, deprovisioning, role assignment, access changes, and identity lifecycle management processes.
- Integrate enterprise applications using modern identity and federation standards including SAML, OpenID Connect (OIDC), OAuth, and SCIM.
- Implement and maintain Privileged Access Management (PAM) controls for administrative, elevated, and high-risk accounts.
- Design and operate Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) capabilities using SailPoint or approved enterprise identity-governance platforms.
- Integrate and administer AWS IAM Identity Center and related AWS identity and access-management capabilities.
- Implement PIV/CAC smart-card authentication, certificate-based authentication, and other approved strong-authentication mechanisms.
- Enforce phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication for privileged and mission-critical access.
- Align identity architectures, authentication methods, credential lifecycle processes, and access controls with FICAMrequirements and applicable government identity standards.
- Develop and enforce least-privilege, role-based, and policy-based access controls across enterprise systems and applications.
- Automate identity-management processes using scripting, APIs, infrastructure-as-code, and workflow technologies.
- Integrate PAM, IGA, directory, cloud identity, and authentication platforms to provide consistent identity controls across environments.
- Implement monitoring, logging, auditing, and alerting for authentication events, privileged activity, identity lifecycle changes, and access-policy violations.
- Perform periodic access reviews, entitlement analysis, privileged-account reviews, and identity-governance activities.
- Partner with application, cloud, cybersecurity, platform, and DevSecOps teams to securely onboard applications and services into enterprise identity platforms.
- Troubleshoot complex authentication, federation, provisioning, directory synchronization, authorization, and access-management issues.
- Maintain identity architecture documentation, integration standards, operational procedures, access-control models, and governance processes.
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline.
- Demonstrated experience designing, engineering, or administering enterprise IAM / ICAM solutions.
- Strong experience with Active Directory and cloud-based directory services such as Microsoft Entra ID.
- Hands-on experience with identity federation and provisioning standards including SAML, OIDC, OAuth, and SCIM.
- Experience implementing or operating Privileged Access Management platforms and privileged identity workflows.
- Experience with Identity Governance and Administration, preferably using SailPoint IdentityIQ or SailPoint Identity Security Cloud.
- Experience with AWS IAM, AWS IAM Identity Center, and cloud identity integration.
- Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, RBAC, ABAC, least privilege, and identity lifecycle management.
- Experience implementing PIV/CAC, certificate-based authentication, and phishing-resistant MFA.
- Familiarity with FICAM, federal identity standards, and authentication requirements for government environments.
- Strong understanding of Zero Trust architecture, with particular emphasis on identity as a primary policy-enforcement and access-control pillar.
- Experience automating identity workflows using APIs, scripting languages, PowerShell, Python, Terraform, or comparable automation technologies.
- Experience integrating identity platforms with SaaS applications, cloud services, enterprise applications, and hybrid infrastructure.
- Experience with centralized logging, identity monitoring, audit reporting, access reviews, and compliance evidence collection.
- Experience supporting government, defense, GovCloud, or other regulated environments is preferred.
- Strong architecture, troubleshooting, documentation, governance, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
- AWS Certified Security – Specialty
- Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administrator Associate (SC-300)
- Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100)
- Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
- SailPoint IdentityIQ / Identity Security Cloud certification
- CyberArk Defender or CyberArk Sentry
Preferred Certifications:
We’re actively searching for talented security and technology practitioners who are ready to experience the True Zero difference. As a True Zero team member, you'll enjoy:
- Competitive salary, paid twice per month
- Best in class medical coverage
- 100% of medical premiums covered by True Zero
- Company wide new business incentive programs
- Contribution Incentives (i.e. white papers, blog posts, internal webinars, etc.)
- 3 weeks of PTO starting + 11 Paid Holidays Annually
- 401k Program with 100% company match on the first 4%
- Monthly reimbursement of Cell Phone and Home Internet costs
- Paternity/Maternity Leave
- Investment in training and certifications to broaden and deepen your technical skills
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