Security Consultant-Identity & Access Management Services

IBM; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Consulting is seeking an IAM Security Consultant to join our FutureNow Centers and help clients implement secure identity solutions with SSO across cloud and enterprise environments.

You will leverage IAM tools such as ISIM/ISAM and Cloud Identity/Okta/Sailpoint/MS Entra, while scripting for provisioning, migration, and directory services integration (AD/TDI). Requirements include Bachelor's and ideally Master's degrees, with 13–16 years of related experience.

Qualifications

• Exposure to IAM tools providing SSO and user lifecycle management.
• Proficiency with directory services and scripting for automation.
• Experience across Cloud and on-prem identity environments.

Responsibilities

• Implement Identity Solutions using IAM tools to enable secure SSO.
• Develop automation scripts for provisioning and migration of identities.
• Manage directory services like AD and TDI to support identity systems.
• Apply security protocols (SAML, OAuth) in identity management.

Skills

IAM concepts

Scripting

SSO

Identity Lifecycle

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Master's Degree

Tools

ISIM/ISAM

Cloud Identity/Okta/Sailpoint/MS Entra

AD/TDI

Job description

A career in IBM Consulting is built on long-term client relationships and close collaboration worldwide. You’ll work with leading companies across industries, helping them shape their hybrid cloud and AI journeys. With support from our strategic partners, robust IBM technology, and Red Hat, you’ll have the tools to drive meaningful change and accelerate client impact. At IBM Consulting, curiosity fuels success. You’ll be encouraged to challenge the norm, explore new ideas, and create innovative solutions that deliver real results. Our culture of growth and empathy focuses on your long-term career development while valuing your unique skills and experiences.

In this role, you'll work in one of our IBM Consulting FutureNow Centers, where we deliver deep technical and industry expertise to a wide range of public and private sector clients around the world. Our delivery centers offer our clients locally based skills and technical expertise to drive innovation and adoption of new technology.

Your role and responsibilities

As a Security Consultant specializing in Identity & Access Management (IAM) services, you help organizations understand and manage the entire identity lifecycle within their enterprise. You utilize commercially available IAM tools to provide Single Sign-On (SSO) and manage user identities effectively.

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Implement Identity Solutions: Utilize IAM tools such as ISIM/ISAM, Cloud Identity/Okta/Sailpoint/MS Entra to create a secure and streamlined identity management system for the organization.
• Develop Automation Scripts: Create scripts to automate the provisioning and migration of identities across Cloud, OT, IOT, and enterprise IT.
• Manage Directory Services: Apply proficiency in directory services like TDI and AD to support effective identity management.
• Support Identity Lifecycle: Provide expertise to manage the entire identity lifecycle within the enterprise, ensuring secure and efficient identity management.
• Apply Security Protocols: Utilize hands-on experience with SAML, OAuth, and scripting to ensure secure identity management practices.

Required education

Bachelor's Degree

Preferred education

Master's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

• Exposure to Identity & Access Management Tools: Utilized commercially available IAM tools such as ISIM/ISAM, Cloud Identity/Okta/Sailpoint/MS Entra to provide Single Sign-On (SSO) and manage user identities effectively.
• Proficiency in Directory Services: Applied knowledge of directory services like TDI and AD to support effective identity management.
• Hands-on Experience with Security Protocols: Utilized SAML, OAuth, and scripting to ensure secure identity management practices.
• Scripting Skills: Developed scripts to automate the provisioning and migration of identities across Cloud, OT, IOT, and enterprise IT.
• Understanding of Identity Lifecycle: Managed the entire identity lifecycle within an enterprise, ensuring secure and efficient identity management.

Preferred technical and professional experience

• Proficiency in Cloud Identity: Exposure to Cloud Identity, Okta, Sailpoint, or MS Entra, with the ability to utilize these tools to provide Single Sign-On (SSO) and manage user identities effectively.
• Advanced Scripting Skills: Experience with scripting languages, having developed scripts to automate the provisioning and migration of identities across Cloud, OT, IOT, and enterprise IT.
• In-Depth Directory Knowledge: Proficiency in directory services like TDI and AD, with applied knowledge to support effective identity management.

Years of Experience:13-16

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Consulting is IBM’s consulting and global professional services business, with market leading capabilities in business and technology transformation. With deep expertise in many industries, we offer strategy, experience, technology, and operations services to many of the most innovative and valuable companies in the world. Our people are focused on accelerating our clients’ businesses through the power of collaboration. We believe in the power of technology responsibly used to help people, partners and the planet.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

Job ID

130335

City / Township / Village

State / Province

Country

India

Work arrangement

Hybrid

Area of work

Consulting

Employment type

Regular

Position type

Professional

Up to 20% or 1 day a week

Company

(0063) IBM India Private Limited

Shift

General (daytime)