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El Rito, New Mexico, United States
Remote only
Function
ITWe’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks – can focus on achieving the incredible with data.
If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.
The Role
We are seeking an Identity and Access Management Technical Manager to lead a team of IAM administrators and engineers focused on on-prem Active Directory and Privileged Access Management. This IAM Technical Manager role will report to the Senior Director of Identity and Access Management under the CISO of Hitachi Vantara. In this role, the ideal candidate can expect a true blend of management and technical duties. The ideal candidate will frequently find themselves engaging with other leaders in cybersecurity and across the business to understand and find solutions for the complex needs of our company. The successful candidate will also be expected to complete hands-on work with on-premise Active Directory and Privilege Access Management solutions. This position is ideal for an individual with strong technical skills who is looking to transition into a leadership role and advance their career to the next level without fully stepping away from hands-on technical work.
Responsibilities:
Design and develop a multi-year roadmap to further mature the AD and PAM implementations.
Ensure quality operations and up-time for AD and PAM solutions.
Lead a team of developers and engineers to grow, support, and maintain the AD and PAM platforms.
Ensure security best practices are enforced across all elements of the AD and PAM implementations.
Implement and design key team processes for platform and team operations and management.
Help design, develop, and drive an automation-first IAM stack.
What You’ll Bring
Technical Expertise (50%)
Technical mastery of On-Premise Active Directory and/or a Privilege Access Management Program. This includes technical knowledge for architecture, configurations, best practices, and operations. The correct candidate should be capable of:
Active Directory: managing and administering AD objects, operating and maintaining domain controllers, management of DNS Zones and Objects, and approaches for security hardening and group policy management.
PAM: management of PAM SaaS solutions (administration, maintenance, and operations), policies related to non-human identities and privileged access identities, governance for PAM resources, and management of accounts in various types of infrastructure, including servers, databases, network appliances, and virtual hosts.
Strong/expert level understanding of authentication mechanisms and protocols, including LDAP, LDAPS, and Kerberos.
Experience working in large enterprise-scale IAM environments, with more than 20,000 users and computer objects.
Understanding of IT Service Management processes and concepts, such as Incident Management, Change Management, Problem Management, and the ability to quickly adapt to adhere to those processes.
People Leadership Expertise (50%)
Ability to lead project teams to accomplish goals and milestones.
Excellent people skills are a must - we are looking for a strong manager who is thoughtful in their approach to managing people and working with people on other teams.
Willingness to invest in more junior members of the team and grow their technical skills within IAM platforms.
Good written and oral communication in English.
Self-driven with an ability to quickly adapt to new technologies and variables in a dynamic and fast-moving, large-scale project with tight deadlines.
Willingness to work in an international team, with project meetings several times a week at odd hours to support the US, Europe, and India.
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We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.
Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.
We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.
We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.