IAM Security Engineer (100% Remote)

Our Customer is a consumer financial services company headquartered in Connecticut. The company offers consumer financing products, including credit, promotional financing and loyalty programs, installment lending to industries, and FDIC-insured consumer savings products through the consumer bank, its wholly owned online bank subsidiary.

We are seeking an IAM Security Engineer on a contract basis to support our customer’s ongoing business needs. This role is 100% remote, East Coast preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Facilitate discovery and engagement with application owners for onboarding
• Conduct interviews, working sessions, and onboarding documentation
• Identify onboarding risks and develop mitigation plans, escalating as needed
• Coordinate troubleshooting efforts to prepare applications for onboarding
• Provide status updates and manage escalations throughout the process
• Analyze log data to identify relevant events and map to data models
• Develop and configure Splunk add-ons to parse, tag, and structure security data
• Test and validate Splunk configurations, ensuring alignment with standards and data models
• Release onboarded applications to production environments
• Develop and execute test plans and test cases for application functionality
• Collaborate with developers to reproduce and resolve technical issues
• Maintain detailed testing and configuration documentation

Skills and Qualifications:

• 3+ years of overall experience, including at least 1 year in engineering or architecture within IAM or related InfoSec domains
• 1+ year of hands-on experience with IAM technologies
• Strong understanding of IAM concepts such as authentication, authorization, and RBAC
• Deep knowledge of Splunk Cloud and Splunk Processing Language (SPL)
• Experience working in cloud environments (PaaS)
• Experience analyzing log data and working with security event data
• Familiarity with Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira and Jira Align
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability to prioritize work based on risk and timelines
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to work cross-functionally with technical and non-technical stakeholders

We offer a competitive salary range for this position. Most candidates who join our team are hired at the median of this range, ensuring fair and equitable compensation based on experience and qualifications.

Contractor benefits are available through our 3rd Party Employer of Record (Available upon completion of waiting period for eligible engagements) Benefits include: Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k.

An Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability.