Senior IAM Engineer: AI Agents & Workload Identities

Apex Systems; McLean (VA); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 103,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth Apex seeks a Senior Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineer for a contract role with potential conversion. Hybrid schedule from McLean or other US locations, focusing on enterprise IAM across SailPoint, Ping Identity, and Entra. This is a hands-on engineering role for traditional and non-human identities.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in IAM, strong troubleshooting, and API/automation experience. Pay is $70–$75/hr on W2; contract location Denver, CO.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of IAM, identity engineering, or related experience.
• Hands-on with SailPoint and/or Ping Identity.
• Experience with non-human identities and identity lifecycle management.
• Experience building integrations, automation, and API connectors.
• Strong troubleshooting and production support skills.

Responsibilities

• Engineer and support IAM solutions across SailPoint, Ping Identity, Entra, and AD.
• Implement controls for AI agents and non-human identities.
• Build IAM integrations, APIs, connectors, scripts, and automation.
• Support authentication, federation, provisioning, and lifecycle management.
• Troubleshoot complex identity, cloud, network, and data issues.

Skills

IAM engineering

SailPoint

Ping Identity

Non-human identities

APIs & automation

Tools

SailPoint IdentityIQ

PingFederate

PingDirectory

Microsoft Entra

Active Directory

Job description

Everforth Apex seeks a Senior Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineer for a contract role with potential conversion. Hybrid schedule from McLean or other US locations, focusing on enterprise IAM across SailPoint, Ping Identity, and Entra. This is a hands-on engineering role for traditional and non-human identities.

The ideal candidate has 10+ years in IAM, strong troubleshooting, and API/automation experience. Pay is $70–$75/hr on W2; contract location Denver, CO.