StrataNorth is a young Boston-based IT advisory consultancy with a passion for providing the best outcomes for our customers. We help businesses of all sizes, from startups to large enterprises, who understand that having the right strategy, technological footprint, secured environments, and a focus on customer-centricity is directly tied to their ability to stabilize, scale, and sustain their growth. Our consultants utilize a comprehensive, in-depth and analytical approach to deliver successful outcomes that help our customers make smarter business decisions. We deliver exceptional world-class service with solutions tailored to our customer’s business. We are committed to being solution agnostic, thereby allowing us to consider a wide range of solutions to provide outcomes that truly meet our customer’s business needs.

Vision Statement

“Create innovative solutions that empower every organization to deliver on their promises.”

Mission Statement 

“To deliver strategic advisory services of unmatched quality by continuously being inspired by change, doing all that we do with integrity, and driving excellence in our execution.”

We are seeking an Identity and Access Management engineer who can contribute their expert-level knowledge in helping our customers streamline and secure their complex security and identity infrastructures. The Senior Identity and Access Management Engineer will be responsible for architecting and engineering solutions to solve complex business problems, creating project plans for analysis, running workshops, overseeing third-party partner implementations, creating procedures, and performing assessments of identity solutions.

Our engineers conduct in-depth analyses, identify technical requirements and industry trends, and establish best practices. The Consultant will be customer-facing, lead project engagements, and provide advisory and guidance to the customer at the executive level. This role will require communicating complex identity and security concepts and their direct business value to customers. The ideal candidate will produce high-quality deliverables relying on their exceptional interpersonal and communication skills.

Role Benefits

• Work where and how you want with flexible hours
• Programs for skill enhancement and career growth for your portfolio
• The ability to provide your experience and skills to drive the overall company growth and success
• Be a part of an exciting young IT Advisory startup
• Potential for full-time and benefits

Identity Engineering

• Design, implement, and maintain identity platforms and authentication systems and protocols for customer organizations such as Active Directory, Azure AD, SAML/SSO, Okta, etc.
• Provide analysis, implementation design, project planning, and project lead services for customer Active Directory Migrations and Cloud Suite Migrations (Azure, Google Workspace, etc.).
• Act as a technical subject matter expert and advisor to organizational IT teams for the aforementioned migration efforts
• Work alongside members of customer IT teams focused on Identity and Security to establish operational procedures, introduce new abilities, and offer suggestions regarding the creation of guidelines and frameworks related to managing identities and access.
• Perform supplemental administration and maintenance of identity solutions as needed
• Perform troubleshooting of issues and escalate with vendor support
• Provide design and configuration documentation to organizational IT teams to support
• Identify new concepts, operational and design improvements to existing systems and processes
• Coordinate the implementation of process improvements and automation, and manage escalations, issues, or high-priority tasks
• Orchestrate the execution of enhancements in procedures and automation.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior customer IT teams.

General consulting

• Ability to disseminate customer business needs, determine requirements, provide consultative guidance, and drive the analysis required to solve their business challenges
• Understand organizational practices, technology trends, and industry best practices.
• Analyze the people, process, and technology as it aligns with organizational change management for the business.
• Serve as the key trusted security advisor to the customer.
• Engage with customers to define the project scope, create plans, timelines, and roadmaps.
• Provide project management and drive projects to completion.

Education

• 7+ years of Identity or Systems Management
• B.S. degree (or relevant experience above) in relevant technology or business discipline
• Preferred Certifications: Microsoft MCSA or MSCE in relevant discipline
• 3+ years as a senior or principal engineer level

Technical Knowledge

• Expert-level knowledge of the following areas: Active Directory (Child domains, multi-forest organizations, Group Policy, Domain Controllers, DNS), LDAP, RBAC Best Practices.
• High proficiency in the following areas: Powershell Scripting, Performing Migrations (Active Directory, File Servers, Cloud Suites), Microsoft Cloud (Azure AD, Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Sharepoint, Exchange Online), File Systems (DFS-N, DFS-R, Windows Permissions on File Servers).
• Experience with the following capabilities a plus: Identity platforms (CyberArk, SailPoint, OKTA, Ping Identity, DUO), Power Automate, Azure AD App Registrations, Authentication (SAML/SSO, OAuth, OpenID Connect), NPS, Mail Gateways (Proofpoint, Cisco, Mimecast, etc.).
• Fundamental understanding of the following technology concepts: Networking (Firewalls, VPNs, Switching, Routing), Storage, and Virtualization (SAN, NAS, VMware, Hyper-V, Hyper Converge, etc.)

Professional Acumen

• Adept in process improvements, automation, and high-priority task management, as well as effectively handling escalations and issues
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and ability to work independently and with cross-functional teams on complex problems
• Advanced troubleshooting skills and highly self-motivated
• Ability to identify improvements in process and technical configurations
• Superb written and oral communication skills
• Excellent interpersonal skills with a focus on customer excellence
• Analytical mindset and technical proficiency
• Good time management and organizational skills
• A passion for excellence in every aspect of the role

This role is 100% fully remote with flexible hours. This role may flex between part-time and full-time depending on customer needs. Commitments will be communicated in advance.

Hourly rate starts from $100 / hr. (pending experience).

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee, contractor, or freelancer for this role. Duties, responsibilities, and activities will be reviewed periodically as duties and responsibilities change with business necessities. Essential and marginal job functions are subject to modification.