Infrastructure IAM Engineer

SPECTRAFORCE; Newark (NJ); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A tech solutions company seeks an experienced Infrastructure Security Engineer in Newark, NJ. The role involves developing IAM solutions, ensuring system security compliance, and collaborating with teams to deliver effective infrastructure solutions. Candidates should have 5-8 years of experience working with Hyper-V, Windows Server, and Active Directory, along with strong skills in automation technologies like PowerShell and Terraform. This position is crucial for maintaining security and improving operational efficiency.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5-8 years of experience in infrastructure and security.
• Experience in triaging identity and infrastructure issues.
• Ability to write clear engineering and system documentation.

Responsibilities

• Develop high-quality engineering configurations for security compliance.
• Collaborate with tech leads to deploy solutions.
• Write scripts for operational excellence and security.

Skills

Hyper-V

Windows Server Operating systems

System Center Operations Manager (SCOM)

Azure Monitoring

Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS)

Microsoft Entra ID

PowerShell

Infrastructure as Code

SQL Server

Tools

Terraform

ARM templates

Chef

Ansible

Job description

Duration: 06 Months (Possibility of extension)

W2 Only

Job Description

Your Team & Role As an Infrastructure Security Engineer for the Global Technology Workforce Identity and Access Management (IAM) Team, you will partner with technology leads and engineers to develop and improve IAM solutions. You will design, test, and engineer new and existing solutions and streamline our day-to-day workflows, and help the Identity engineering team to meet project timelines and complete net new business as usual (BAU) work. The work will be around Security and Engineering of our Tier Zero Identity platform and Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) systems.

Here is What You Can Expect on a Typical Day

• Develop high quality, well documented engineering configuration and infrastructure solutions that adhere to all applicable clients security standards
• Ensure product and infrastructure security is maintained throughout the system lifecycle, integrating new security features, patches, and updates into existing environments
• Collaborate with tech leads in understanding system requirements, defining stories, creation of technical designs, and deployment of solutions
• Support engineering and other team members to understand systems end-to-end and deliver robust solutions that support positive business impact
• Write scripts and automation code to support areas such as operational excellence, production validation, and security for our Windows servers and identity infrastructure platform
• Research problems discovered internally or by stakeholders and consumers, ideate and develop solutions to mitigate without negative impact to the business
• Bring an applied understanding of relevant and emerging technologies, begin to identify opportunities to provide input to the team and coach others, and embed learning and innovation in the day-to-day
• Work on complex problems in which analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of various factors
• Use programming languages including but not limited to PowerShell, Terraform, ARM templates, etc.

The work requires a minimum of 5-8 years of experience in the following areas

• Infrastructure: Hyper‑V and Windows Server Operating systems
• Observability: System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) / Azure Monitoring
• Identity: Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) / Microsoft Entra ID
• Automation: PowerShell, Infrastructure and Configuration as Code (e.g. Chef, Ansible)
• Databases: SQL Server

Experience in

Triaging and troubleshooting identity and infrastructure issues

Development of Automation and Deployments for Hyper‑V and Windows Server Infrastructure

Automated testing and validation to support non‑production and production changes

Writing clear engineering and system documentation (e.g. in Confluence)