Identity and Access Management Platform Senior Engineer

Ford - Denver, CO

Full-time - Mid Level

Onsite - Denver, CO

Transportation Equipment Manufacturing

About the position

The Identity and Access Management Platform Senior Engineer at Ford will play a crucial role in the engineering, development, and 24/7 support of identity and access management solutions for the Enterprise Identity and Access Assurance (IAA) platform on Microsoft EntraID. This position requires collaboration with various teams to ensure a secure and premium user experience, focusing on continuous improvement and operational excellence in the IAM ecosystem.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the Technical Anchor to design, engineer, develop, deploy, and support new Enterprise Identity and Access Assurance software and platform features.
• Support delivery of tactical and strategic IAM solutions, including analysis, design, and implementation to improve security posture.
• Contribute to the development and implementation of IAM strategies and roadmap.
• Provide technical guidance and support to other team members.
• Develop and maintain metric dashboards and monitoring/alerting systems.
• Provide day-to-day operations of requests, incidents, and problems.
• Create and maintain technical documentation for team and integrating applications.
• Use modern software development Agile methodologies to deliver high-quality software on time and on budget.
• Use modern software delivery pipelines to automate the deployment and testing of software and platform features.
• Maintain and update Ford custom policies using the Identity Experience Framework.
• Maintain and update UI in accordance with the Ford UI Design Team provided specifications.
• Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in C#, .NET Core, or other relevant languages.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree or a combination of education and experience.
• 5+ years of experience with Microsoft Azure AD /EntraID.
• 8+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure, App Services, API Management.
• Thorough understanding of IAM principles.
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively with a globally dispersed and diverse team.
• Dedication to delivering a secure, always-on identity platform.
• Strong verbal, interpersonal, and written skills.
• Hands-on experience with KQL, PowerShell, C#, .NET Core, or other relevant languages.
• Experience with federated identity protocols like SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect.
• Experience implementing Multi-Factor Authentication.
• Hands-on experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Dynatrace.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience implementing Conditional Access is a plus.
• Industry recognized certifications (e.g., AZ-900: Azure Fundamentals, CISSP) are a plus.
• Advanced degree in Information Assurance or related field is a plus.

Benefits

• Immediate medical, dental, vision and prescription drug coverage
• Flexible family care days, paid parental leave, new parent ramp-up programs, subsidized back-up child care
• Family building benefits including adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, fertility treatments
• Vehicle discount program for employees and family members
• Tuition assistance
• Established and active employee resource groups
• Paid time off for individual and team community service
• A generous schedule of paid holidays, including the week between Christmas and New Year's Day
• Paid time off and the option to purchase additional vacation time.