SME - Solution Creation

Sr Cybersecurity Engineer – Azure IAM

Job Type: full time / contractual

Location: India (Remote)

Exp. Level: 10+ Years

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Senior Cybersecurity Engineer specializing in Azure IAM to join our business client team on a contract basis. This role will focus on designing, implementing, and managing identity and access solutions within the Microsoft Azure ecosystem to ensure secure and seamless authentication and authorization processes across the organization.

The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and related security features, helping to strengthen our overall cybersecurity posture and ensure compliance with industry standards.

Key Responsibilities

• Azure Identity and Access Management (IAM):
• Design, deploy, and manage Azure AD and related identity services (e.g., Conditional Access, Privileged Identity Management (PIM), and Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)).
• Configure and manage Single Sign-On (SSO) integrations with third-party applications.
• Implement and manage Identity Protection policies to detect and respond to identity-based threats.
• Define and enforce Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) across Azure resources.
• Deploy and manage Privileged Access Workstations (PAWs) to secure administrative access.
• Implement Azure Identity Governance solutions, such as entitlement management and access reviews.
• Develop and enforce identity lifecycle processes, including user provisioning, de-provisioning, and access certification.
• Monitor and respond to identity-related security events using tools such as Microsoft Sentinel or similar SIEM solutions.
• Collaborate with IT and security teams to integrate IAM best practices across the organization.
• Provide guidance and support for identity-related incidents, including root cause analysis and remediation.
• Create and maintain detailed documentation of Azure IAM configurations, policies, and processes.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations, such as GDPR, HIPAA, or SOC 2.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience.
• 7+ years of experience in cybersecurity or identity and access management roles.
• Hands-on expertise with Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) and its advanced features.
• Proven experience implementing RBAC, Conditional Access, and PIM in enterprise environments.
• Strong understanding of authentication protocols (e.g., SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, Kerberos).
• Experience with identity lifecycle management and automation using tools such as PowerShell or APIs.
• Familiarity with Zero Trust principles and Azure security frameworks.
• Microsoft certifications such as Azure Security Engineer Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, or Azure Solutions Architect Expert.
• Industry certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or CEH.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Skills

• Experience integrating Azure AD with hybrid identity environments (e.g., Active Directory Federation Services (AD FS), Azure AD Connect).
• Knowledge of identity threat detection and response using tools like Microsoft Defender for Identity.
• Experience with cloud security in multi-cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP).

Summary of Role

Innovate to solve the world's most important challenges. We are looking for Advanced User Exp Designer with strong capabilities to design and own the product experience. The designer would be responsible for end to end interaction and visual design.

Responsibilities

• Own the design execution while working closely with key stakeholders in design, engineering and business stakeholders to solve user needs and business goals
• Demonstrate mastery of the end-end UX process, including user research for discovery and product definition, and multiple methods of formal and informal user evaluations
• Demonstrate a strong understanding of Agile / Lean UX methodologies
• Prioritize backlog effectively; communicate clear timelines and status updates at all levels
• Guide effective documentation and communication of design - via wireframes, mockups, prototypes and user stories
• Conduct research and evaluation of designs, as well as emerging technology, industry, and market trends

Must Have Background for this Role:

• Bachelor's degree preferably from tier 1/ tier 2 design school.
• Outstanding user experience design portfolio
• Bachelors degree in human factors, psychology, user experience design or related degree
• Some experience in user experience design, interaction design or human factors
• Proficient user experience design skills, e.g., customer journey map, experience diagramming, task analysis, workflow design, etc.
• Experience with observational research and usability testing
• Graduate degree in user experience design, human factors, interaction design or related discipline.
• Fluent with design sketching and prototyping tools, e.g., Axure, Balsamiq, Visio, etc.
• Experience with design trends, benchmarking, forecasting and concept creation
• Experience with project planning, scoping and execution in a phase-gate and/or agile environment

Required Skills for this Role:

• Has 5+ years of experience (e.g. interaction, graphic, visual, product, industrial), User Experience, HCI, or a related field
• Must have strong background in interaction/UX design and continue to be hands-on as an interaction designer
• Conducts user research to understand user needs, mental models and working contexts
• Synthesizes output of stakeholder research & creates visualizations that effectively summarize key insights related to user and customer needs and behaviors, product definition.
• Has real-world experience in managing projects & stakeholders
• Skilled in standard design & wireframing tools (Adobe CC, Sketch) and visual communication

Our client is a disruptive performance marketing agency with a data-driven approach adding impetus to its client's growth. The agency has developed two proprietary tools that enables them to execute large scale marketing campaigns. Automated media buying, centralized data tracking, business intelligence reports and personalized ads are the major services offered to the clients.

What you need to have:

What You'll Do

Maintain and extend existing payment modules, extensions, and plugins

Develop new modules, sample code, SDKs, and production code for merchants and partners

Help define requirements for 3rd party developer APIs and tools

Analyze/debug merchant and partner integration issues

Assist in building and maintaining a test environment for engineering and our partners to test new feature compatibility

Skills Required but not limited to:

Python, Django, Django Rest Framework.

AWS Services Including, CloudFront , S3, API

Gateway, Lambda, Step Functions, SES, DynamoDB ,

Serverless Framework

Fair understanding of building RESTful APIs

Strong understanding of front end technologies, such as JavaScript, Jquery , HTML5, and CSS3

Good to have experience with version control, docker , deployment pipelines, CI/CD

Backend Web Application Development

AWS Identity and Access Management principles SQL (MS SQL Server, PostgreSQL, AWS Aurora comparable)

GIT , JIRA, Agile / Scrum

Experience: 4-6 years