Keycloak Senior Developer (Distributed Authentication Platform)

Accenture Infrastructure and Capital Projects, LLC; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks paid parental leave

Career development program

Global opportunities

Diversity & Inclusion focus

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a Keycloak Senior Developer to deliver configurations and extensions for a distributed environment. You will work with the Technical Lead to implement robust realm/client designs, authentication flows, and integrations aligned to modern authentication needs.

The role requires 4–6+ years in IAM/security and 3+ years hands-on Keycloak experience, with strong OIDC/OAuth2/SAML and troubleshooting skills. On-site work five days a week is expected.

Qualifications

• 4–6+ years’ experience in IAM / security engineering roles.
• 3+ years’ hands-on Keycloak experience.
• Strong experience implementing OIDC/OAuth2 and/or SAML SSO integrations.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across authentication flows, tokens, and federation.

Responsibilities

• Implement advanced Keycloak configurations for OIDC/OAuth2/SAML, SSO, and identity brokering.
• Build Keycloak patterns suitable for distributed deployments (multi-site / multi-environment).
• Implement federation/integration with identity sources (LDAP-based federation) and token/claims mapping.
• Implement strong authentication patterns (MFA, certificate-based auth) as required for security posture.
• Contribute to configuration-as-code practices so Keycloak config can be versioned and audited.
• Perform peer reviews, uplift engineering standards, and support defect triage across authentication flows.
• Support operational hardening activities (secure baseline config, logging, backup/restore testing).

Skills

IAM Security Engineering

Keycloak

OIDC/OAuth2

SAML SSO

Troubleshooting

Tools

LDAP Federation

Job description

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading solutions and services company that helps the world’s leading enterprises reinvent by building their digital core and unleashing the power of AI to create value at speed across the enterprise, bringing together the talent of our approximately 786,000 people, our proprietary assets and platforms, and deep ecosystem relationships. Our strategy is to be the reinvention partner of choice for our clients and to be the most client-focused, AI-enabled, great place to work in the world. Through our Reinvention Services we bring together our capabilities across strategy, consulting, technology, operations, Song and Industry X with our deep industry expertise to create and deliver solutions and services for our clients. Our purpose is to deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity, and we measure our success by the 360° value we create for all our stakeholders. Visit us at www.accenture.com.

Join Accenture and help transform leading organisations and communities around the world. The sheer scale of our capabilities and client engagements and the way we collaborate, operate and deliver value provides an unparalleled opportunity to grow and advance. Choose Accenture and make delivering innovative work part of your extraordinary career.

About the role

As a Keycloak Senior Developer , you will be a senior technical contributor delivering Keycloak configurations and extensions for a distributed environment. You will work closely with the Technical Lead to implement robust realm/client designs, authentication flows, and integrations aligned to modern authentication needs (OIDC/OAuth2/SAML, SSO, identity brokering).

What you’ll be responsible for

• Implementing advanced Keycloak configurations for OIDC/OAuth2/SAML , SSO, and identity brokering.
• Building Keycloak patterns suitable for distributed deployments (multi-site / multi-environment consistency).
• Implementing federation/integration with identity sources (e.g., LDAP‑based federation) and shaping token/claims mapping to meet application requirements.
• Implementing strong authentication patterns (e.g., MFA, certificate‑based auth) as required for security posture.
• Contributing to configuration‑as‑code practices so Keycloak configuration can be versioned, promoted, and audited.
• Performing peer reviews, uplifting engineering standards, and supporting defect triage across authentication flows and integrations.
• Supporting operational hardening activities (secure baseline config, logging/audit, backup/restore testing).

What we’re looking for

• 4–6+ years’ experience in IAM / security engineering roles.
• 3+ years’ hands‑on Keycloak experience.
• Strong experience implementing OIDC/OAuth2 and/or SAML SSO integrations.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across authentication flows, tokens, and federation.

Security Clearance

• Current NV2 Security Clearance

Must be willing to work onsite 5 days a week

Benefits of working at Accenture:

• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Long & short-term career break opportunities
• Structured career development program
• Local and international career opportunities.
• Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace™
• Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.
• We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!

All our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You’ll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career.

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Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.

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Equal Employment Opportunity Statementfor Australia:

At Accenture, we recognise that our people are multi-dimensional, and we create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day.

Our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity. Our range of progressive policies support flexibility in ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘how’ our people work to ensure that Accenture is an organisation where you can strive for more, achieve great things and maintain the balance and wellbeing you need.

We encourage applications from all people, and we are committed to removing barriers to the recruitment process and employee lifecycle. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, disability status, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, religion or sexual orientation and we do not tolerate discrimination. If you require adjustments to the recruitment process or have a preferred communication method, please email [e-mail] and cite the relevant Job Number, or contact us on [phone].

To ensure our workplace is inclusive and diverse we are setting bold goals and taking comprehensive action. To achieve these goals, we collect information that allows us to track the effectiveness of our Inclusion and Diversity programs. Learn how Accenture protects your personal data and know your rights in relation to your personal data. Read more about our Privacy Statement.