Ping Directory Lead SME — Enterprise Directory & AD Migrations

Entech; Malvern (Chester County); On-site; USD 180,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health

Dental

Vision

401(k)

20 days PTO

Job summary

Entech is seeking a Ping Directory Lead SME to own enterprise directory strategy and platform lifecycle. You will drive deployment, modernization, and day-to-day resilience of Ping Directory ecosystem, including AD migrations, IaC, and zero-trust security controls.

This hybrid role requires onsite work in Malvern, PA, and serves as escalation point for production engineering and reliability teams.

Qualifications

• Enterprise directory mastery with scale-focused experience.
• Proven LDAP/Active Directory migration leadership.
• Cross-functional collaboration across IAM, Cybersecurity, Infra, Cloud, Audit.
• Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering; Ping certs or cloud certs desirable.

Responsibilities

• Platform Ownership & Strategy: lead Ping Directory, PingDirectoryProxy, PingDataSync strategy and lifecycle.
• Architecture & Deployment: design HA directory environments, manage schema, access, replication and sync.
• Migration Leadership: guide AD migrations including mapping, coexistence, cutover, validation, rollback.
• IaC & Automation: automate infra with Terraform, GitOps, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Enterprise Integrations: connect Ping Directory to cloud, IdPs, PAM, LDAP/REST/SCIM.
• Security & Compliance: enforce least privilege, secure protocols, SIEM integration and audit trails.
• Operational Resilience & Performance: capacity planning, JVM tuning, backups, DR tests, patching.
• Production Engineering & Incident Response: on-call leadership, RCA, optimization, remediation.
• Governance & Knowledge Management: maintain blueprints, runbooks, change control, data integrity.

Skills

Leadership

IAM

Directory mastery

Cloud & Security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS / Engineering

Ping Identity certifications desirable

Tools

Ping Directory

PingDirectoryProxy

PingDataSync

AD migrations

Terraform

Kubernetes

GitOps

CI/CD

AWS

LDAP/LDAPS

JVM tuning

Splunk

Job description

Entech is seeking a Ping Directory Lead SME to own enterprise directory strategy and platform lifecycle. You will drive deployment, modernization, and day-to-day resilience of Ping Directory ecosystem, including AD migrations, IaC, and zero-trust security controls.

This hybrid role requires onsite work in Malvern, PA, and serves as escalation point for production engineering and reliability teams.