Senior Identity and Reliability Engineering Specialist – Ping Identity / ForgeRock
- Montreal, QC, Canada
$120,000 to $130,000 CAD / year · Full-time
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- $120,000 to $130,000 CAD / year
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- Full-time
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- English
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Original job description
The Senior Identity and Reliability Engineering Specialist will help build, maintain, and optimize global identity lifecycle management platforms and directory services supporting business-critical enterprise systems. The role focuses on identity infrastructure, security, reliability, availability, and performance across an environment managing hundreds of thousands of accounts and billions of requests per day. The specialist will collaborate with engineering teams and system owners to strengthen identity services, improve system resilience, and support business continuity and disaster recovery objectives.
Key Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities
- Build, maintain, and optimize global enterprise identity services and directory infrastructure.
- Assess system performance, identify reliability gaps, and contribute to technical improvements.
- Integrate identity solutions across the organization in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
- Ensure compliance with security standards and established engineering best practices.
- Resolve issues escalated by customers and engineering specialists.
- Provide advanced technical support and guidance to stakeholders.
- Align identity and access management infrastructure with current and future business requirements.
- Collaborate with development teams to improve system architecture, resilience, availability, and performance.
- Drive initiatives that strengthen system security and operational efficiency through automation and process improvements.
- Partner with system owners to support business continuity and disaster recovery efforts for IAM systems.
- Participate in a shared 24/7 on-call rotation several times per quarter.
- At least five years of professional experience in a relevant technical field.
- A bachelor's degree in a relevant discipline.
- Familiarity with enterprise identity lifecycle management and directory services.
- Understanding of identity security, encryption in transit, and certificate management.
- Experience or familiarity with Unix/Linux system administration.
- Knowledge of infrastructure automation, version control, and CI/CD tooling.
- Ability to troubleshoot infrastructure issues and contribute to system reliability improvements.
- Willingness to participate in a shared on-call rotation supporting global identity services.
- Familiarity with Ping Identity, Ping Directory Server, ForgeRock Directory Services, ForgeRock IDM, or Microsoft Entra ID.
- Knowledge of standards-based identity protocols, including LDAP and SCIM.
- Experience with TLS and certificate management.
- Familiarity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux or CentOS.
- Experience with infrastructure as code and automation tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
- Familiarity with Git and Jenkins pipelines.
- Experience supporting high-availability identity platforms, business continuity, and disaster recovery initiatives.
- Experience improving system reliability, performance, security, and operational efficiency.
More about this job
Responsibilities
Build, maintain, and optimize enterprise identity services and directory infrastructure, improving security, reliability, availability, and performance. Provide advanced technical support, collaborate with engineering teams and system owners, and strengthen automation, business continuity, and disaster recovery for IAM systems.
Requirements
Requires at least five years of relevant technical experience, a bachelor's degree, and familiarity with identity lifecycle management, directory services, identity security, Linux administration, and infrastructure automation. Candidates should be able to troubleshoot infrastructure and improve reliability, and must be willing to join a shared 24/7 on-call rotation; experience with identity platforms, protocols, and high-availability systems is preferred.
Skills
- Identity Lifecycle Management
- Directory Services
- Ping Identity
- Ping Directory Server
- ForgeRock Directory Services
- ForgeRock IDM
- Microsoft Entra ID
- LDAP
- SCIM
- TLS
- Certificate Management
- Unix/Linux Administration
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Git
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Categories
- Technology
- Engineering
- Security & Safety
Keywords
- Identity Lifecycle Management
- Directory Services
- Identity And Access Management
- Ping Identity
- Ping Directory Server
- ForgeRock Directory Services
- ForgeRock IDM
- Microsoft Entra ID
- LDAP
- SCIM
- TLS
- Encryption In Transit
- Certificate Management
- Unix/Linux
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- CentOS
- Infrastructure As Code
- Terraform
- Ansible
- Git
- Jenkins
- CI/CD
- Automation
- High Availability
- System Reliability
- Business Continuity
- Disaster Recovery
- On-Call Support