The primary location of this position is the main Cullowhee, NC campus An Equal Opportunity/Access/Affirmative Action/Pro Disabled & Veteran Employer.
The Identity Access Management (IAM) Analyst is responsible for how users within the university are given an identity and how it is protected, including saving critical applications, data and systems from unauthorized access while managing the identities, authentication services, and access rights of people both inside and outside the university. It is the responsibility of the IAM analyst to work with functional areas to understand business requirements and manage identity, access, authentication, and authorization within Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory to meet those needs.
Core Job Duties:
1. Analysis, design, requirements, documentation, and implementation of automated lifecycle processes for accounts, and applications. Design and develop electronic workflows for business roles, access requests and approvals for resources, applications, groups, and sites. Design and develop Analytics, Insight Metrics, and Security and Audit Reports. Assist with strategic roadmaps, university level plans, or enterprise architecture diagrams.
The position is regularly involved in project management and may be asked to lead projects as assigned by the department director. These projects have varying levels of complexity and may impact the division or the university. The position may serve on wider project teams or committees and provide expert knowledge and represent IT Division to external stakeholders.
2. Work with IT vendor management, IT security, and campus departments to determine application requirements in the acquisition phase and register and setup enterprise applications purchased by the university. Enterprise applications registration includes single sign-on (SSO), authentication strengths, conditional access, and application access.
3. Client support for One Identity Manager and Entra ID services for identities, authentication, conditional access, and application authorization. Assist with One Identity Manager testing and upgrades. Respond to requests from Data Stewards, campus audit and advisory services, State and Federal auditors security review.
4. Provide second level technical support to the project team, end users, and functional groups through ticket management and participate in project meetings.
Minimum Qualifications
Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship.
Identity Access Management Analyst