Identity and Access Management Analyst

About the Team

The Identity and Access Management vertical within USDS Data Protection Team is responsible for designing, operating and maintaining an identity and access management program with a mission to enforce the principle of security by design and least privilege. We strive to establish secure and compliant processes around provisioning, deprovisioning and governance of access to USDS data and infrastructure proactively identifying and reducing risks.

About the Role

As an Identity and Access Management Analyst, you will be responsible for supporting the team along with a team of cross-functional cyber, privacy, engineering, and data protection analysts to define, implement, manage, and measure controls to protect data in accordance with USDS policies and standards relevant to geographical regulations, contractual commitments, and confidentiality requirements. The Identity and Access Management Analyst will play a pivotal role in operationalization of the identity ecosystem and access management programs in USDS.

Responsibilities

• Design access management program that addresses data residency and fine-grained role-based access requirements and controls as necessitated by business needs and regulations
• Assist in the development and implementation of access governance frameworks, policies, and procedures.
• Build and review technical and functional requirements for in-house or external technologies to support access management and assurance needs, including applying appropriate security measures
• Automate and operationalize access management workflows to improve efficiency and maturity
• Support periodic reviews of access to USDS data and systems, and drive remediation of non-compliant access in a timely fashion
• Implement and enforce mechanisms to proactively monitor, respond and report on inappropriate data access events
• Work with other security and privacy teams to classify and categorize data based on sensitivity and compliance requirements
• Support interactions with Risk and Compliance to understand control requirements and provide information to support findings for non-compliance with internal security policies
• Design and report key metrics and visualizations for weekly, monthly and bimonthly cadences across multiple audiences
• Participate in security reviews to ensure compliance with access governance policies.
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure alignment of access governance initiatives with organizational goals.

Minium Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., Information Management, Computer Science, Business Analytics, Cyber Security) . 5+ years of experience in identity and access management or access governance; experience working with IAM tools and strong knowledge of Access management concepts (RBAC, PAM, Access Reviews, SOD, LCM, provisioning and deprovisioning of Access)
• Experience in designing/deploying identity and access management solutions; Experience analysing large data sets across multiple database types (e.g., MySQL, Hive, Redis etc) leveraging SQL etc
• Experience with industry frameworks, standards and regulations (e.g. ISO, NIST); Ability to write scripts, develop automations, configure tools, work with APIs and databases
• Proficient in at least one software programming language ( Python,Java,Ruby etc); Demonstrate ability to quickly assimilate to new knowledge and remain current on new developments in cybersecurity capabilities and industry knowledge
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; Ability to communicate technical concepts to a broad range of technical and non-technical staff; Strong communication, interpersonal and collaboration skills
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment; Familiar with Cloud-based technology deployments

Preferred Qualifications

• Strong understanding of technology environments and various databases
• Experience working with technology partners to validate data-related problems
• Experience working with Microservices architecture
• Experience in automating access management workflows to reduce operational overhead
• Experience with risk and controls frameworks including (ISO 27001, NIST CSF, NIST RMF, FAIR, COBIT, NIST RMF, ISO 31000 etc.) is a plus