IAM Identity Engineer

Job Description

About Us

CDK Global is a leading provider of cloud-based software to dealerships and Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs”) across automotive and related industries. The Company’s cloud-based, software as a service (“SaaS”) platform enables dealerships to manage their end-to-end business operations including the acquisition, sale, financing, insuring, repair, and maintenance of vehicles. By automating and streamlining critical workflows, the integrated platform of modern solutions enables dealers to sell and service more vehicles by creating simple and convenient experiences for customers and improves their financial and operational performance.

Position Summary

The Associate Identity Engineer is accountable for securing identities and provisioning the right level of access for our user identities, machine identities, and admin identities.

Responsibilities

1. Identity Security Operations:

• Develop and operate processes for user account lifecycle management, secrets management, and email/collaboration security.
• Collaborate with Security Operations team to assure effective security monitoring and response capabilities for CDK identity and end user technologies.
• Provide 24x7 tier 2/3 support, including U.S.-hours third-shift coverage, for identity and end user security technologies

2. Identity Security Engineering:

• Build, implement, and operate IAM, PAM, IGA, and Secrets Management solutions
• Consult on secure machine identity and secrets management architectural patterns to be used in modern applications and cloud environments
• Develop and implement effective privileged access strategies to reduce security risk
• Collaborate with product and technology teams on developing and implementing effective secrets management solutions

3. Identity Security Standards:

• Continuously improve Identity and Access Governance and Privileged Access Management security standards and guidelines in alignment with risk and compliance requirements
• Measure and report on CDK’s compliance with the above defined security standards
• Drive adoption of the security standards through close partnership with technology teams, design and implementation of new technologies, and building new or improving existing processes

Qualifications

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or a related field; or an equivalent experience

Experience:

• Minimum of 3 years in identity and access management
• Strong background in privileged access management in hybrid on-premises/cloud environments, preferably in a technology/SaaS organization.
• Experience in user lifecycle automation and access provisioning/validation automation – using modern IGA tools
• Experience collaborating with product and platform teams on secrets management to support application development and deployment.