Security Authentication Engineer

ALLTECH CONSULTING SVC INC; Quebec; On-site; CAD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in Quebec is seeking a motivated individual to join their authentication and identity management team. The role involves supporting critical infrastructure, working with Kerberos in a Linux environment, and ensuring system stability and observability. Ideal candidates should possess strong technical skills in identity management, scripting, and have a keen interest in information security. Excellent communication and problem-solving skills are essential, along with a collaborative mindset.

Qualifications

• 5 to 6 years of experience in infrastructure or application security.
• Advanced knowledge of Windows and Linux operating systems.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior-level support for authentication and identity management solutions.
• Support and maintain Kerberos infrastructure in a large-scale environment.
• Participate in an on-call rotation responding to alerts.

Skills

Identity and Access Management

Network Security

Scripting

Automation

Problem Solving

Education

ITIL Certification

CISSP

SRE Certifications

Tools

Python

UNIX Shells

Job description

We are looking for a highly motivated individual to join our authentication and identity management reliability engineering group in an agile team structure. The successful candidate will be part of a team responsible for supporting critical firm authentication identity management infrastructure and utilities. An ideal candidate would be enthusiastic about infrastructure stability, innovation and intelligent monitoring of authentication and identity systems. In this role, you’ll be working with our Kerberos infrastructure in our Linux plant.

Responsibilities:
• Providing senior-level support for firm authentication and identity management solutions. Solutions range from industry-standard applications to homegrown tooling.
• Support and maintain Kerberos infrastructure in our Linux plant, which involves both working on the pipeline and product releases in a large-scale infrastructure supporting over 100k servers.
• Debug issues at all levels of the stack- Assist in implementing related long-term stability and observability improvements focused on issue symptoms.
• Participate in an on-call rotation responding to PagerDuty alerts.
• Document and measure every action taken, with the goal of the automation of repetitive manual efforts.
• Create operational tooling (as required) for support team usage.
• Participate on calls with internal users and external clients or vendors when required.

Technical Skills:
• An acute understanding of:
– Identity and Access Management products
– General network and enterprise security standards and concepts as they pertain to authentication
• Advanced knowledge of the components of operating system administration on Windows and Linux [Redhat] platforms
• A deep knowledge of scripting and automation languages such as Python and UNIX Shells.
• Experience working with large enterprise architecture.

Soft Skills:
• Active interest in Authentication services and Information Security.
• Excellent written and oral English communication skills: capable of writing comprehensive documentation, making presentations to an internal audience and interacting positively with upper management, colleagues and customers.
• Independent problem-solving, highly motivated and self-directing.
• Comfortable working in a support role with end user interaction and with periodic on-call responsibilities.
• Must be a self-starter but must also recognize the importance and value of working as a member of a team.
• An interest and understanding of emerging IT Trends such as cloud computing, web technologies and multi-factor authentication solutions.

Experience:
• 5 to 6 years of experience working around infrastructure or application security.
• ITIL, CISSP, any SRE certifications (optional).