Senior Identity Engineering Services | R&D Specialist

VetRamp; San Antonio (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

VetRamp is seeking a Senior Identity Engineer to design, develop, and sustain identity and access management solutions across the DHA enterprise. You will work with AD, PKI, PAM, and cryptographic key management to meet DoD ICAM standards and DISA STIGs.

You will engineer identity services, maintain PKI infrastructure, and ensure compliant access control across hybrid environments, supporting DoD directives and DHA standards.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and implementing IAM solutions across hybrid environments.
• Familiarity with DoD ICAM standards and DoDI 8520.03.
• Strong knowledge of PKI, certificate management, and PAM.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, and implement compliant identity and credential management solutions.
• Engineer and maintain directory services architectures (ADDS/ADLDS).
• Update and sustain architecture documents and engineering packages.
• Support the DHA PKI infrastructure and certificate issuance across systems.
• Enforce policy-based access controls for on-prem and cloud environments.
• Deliver identity automation, alerting, and reporting per DoD requirements.

Skills

Identity management

Directory services

Active Directory

PKI / cryptography

PAM (Privileged Access Management)

DoD ICAM standards

Policy-based access

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology or cybersecurity

GCLD or CCE or CASP or CEH or GLSC or CISSP

Tools

Microsoft Active Directory

ADLDS

DNS

DoD PKI / IMA

ActivIdentity ActivClient

Axway Validator Suites

DoD ICAM Reference Architecture

PowerShell

LDAP

X.509 utilities

Remedy

Microsoft Server OS

DISA STIGs / DoDI 8520.02/03

Job description

Senior Identity Engineer | R&D Specialist

Location: San Antonio, TX

Clearance Required: Public Trust (ADP/IT-II); Tier 3 Investigation (NACLC)

Program Overview:

The Defense Health Agency’s Domain and Directory Services Branch (DDSB) delivers identity, credential, and access management (ICAM) services across the Military Health System (MHS), supporting secure, scalable, and interoperable access for over 200,000 users across 250 global sites. This role is central to engineering and sustaining identity infrastructure, directory services, PKI systems, and credentialing solutions aligned with DoD ICAM standards and cybersecurity frameworks.

Summary:

The IdM R&D Engineer is a senior-level technical professional responsible for the design, development, and support of identity and access management solutions across the DHA enterprise. This role includes engineering support for Active Directory, Public Key Infrastructure (PKI), Privileged Access Management (PAM), Cryptographic Key Management, and other security-focused identity services. The engineer ensures systems comply with DoD directives, DISA STIGs, and DHA architectural standards.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, document, and implement standardized, compliant, and forward-looking solutions for identity, access, and credential management, including PKI, PAM, and cryptographic key management.
• Engineer and maintain directory services architectures including Active Directory Domain Services (ADDS), Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services (ADLDS), and Secure DNS integrated with the latest DHA server baselines and DISA STIGs.
• Update and sustain the mJAD Architecture & Design Document and related engineering packages.
• Engineer and support the DHA PKI infrastructure in alignment with DoDI 8520.02, including CA migration, Middleware (e.g., ActivIdentity), and Validator Suites (e.g., Axway).
• Maintain PKI Certificate Validation Suites and support certificate issuance across LAN/WLAN and Med-COI systems.
• Engineer identity management solutions to manage users, groups, and assets across hybrid on-prem and cloud environments, enforcing policy-based access to systems, SaaS, and resource partners.
• Develop identity and authentication architectures compliant with DoD Enterprise ICAM Reference Design and DoDI 8520.03.
• Deliver identity automation, alerting, reporting, and enforcement policies to meet MHS operational and security requirements.
• Engineer PKE solutions enabling X.509 certificate usage across MHS applications, ensuring integration with PKI for authentication, confidentiality, data integrity, and non-repudiation.
• Provide engineering support for certificate-enabled applications such as ActivClient and Axway Desktop Validator.
• Research, design, and test system-level and embedded software solutions, including network distribution platforms and compilers.
• Apply computer science, engineering, and mathematical analysis to develop scalable, secure software architectures for MHS systems.

Preferred Tools & Technologies:

• Microsoft Active Directory, ADLDS, DNS
• DoD PKI / Internal Medium Assurance (IMA)
• ActivIdentity ActivClient, Axway Validator Suites
• DoD ICAM Reference Architecture
• PowerShell, LDAP, X.509 certificate utilities
• Remedy Ticketing System
• Microsoft Server Operating Systems
• DoD STIGs, DoDI 8520.02 / 03

Education & Certification Requirements (per DoD 8140 Qualification Matrices)

1. Microsoft Certified: Cyber Security Architect Expert or Azure Solutions Architect Expert
2. Any of the following…

• Academic Education: Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Cybersecurity, or a related discipline.
• OR Baseline: GCLD or CCE or CASP or CEH or GLSC or CISSP