Position Summary

Our client is the premier sports entertainment organization based in Frisco, Texas. We are looking for an Identity and Access Management (IAM) Analyst to join our cybersecurity team. Our cybersecurity team focuses on managing cybersecurity functions across the organization, working to ensure the protection of our critical assets and data. As an IAM Analyst, you will be a valued member of a fast-paced, innovative, and collaborative cybersecurity team.

The IAM analyst helps define, establish, maintain and manage identities across the organization. The analyst manages and maintains access to systems and applications following rigorous security, engineering, and governance principles, especially when provisioning and de-provisioning access. This position works closely with IT, cybersecurity operations and incident response, business units and third parties. In addition, the IAM analyst helps with provisioning, governing access, SSO, directory services, technical integrations and supporting behavioral analytics.

Analysts in this role support senior management in maintaining a safe and secure enterprise technical operation. Daily, an IAM analyst verifies solutions are healthy, tightly managed and performing optimally to prevent unauthorized access. To be successful, candidates must have a good understanding of security principles and practical hands-on experience with host and application configurations, on- and off-premises solutions, directory services and zero trust principles.

Essential Job Duties

• Serve on a distributed security and technology team responsible for establishing and maintaining identities and entitlements within IAM solutions.
• Implement identity controls and settings that align with policies and governance structure.
• Work closely with security leadership, teammates, and stakeholders to evaluate and implement access models that align with organizational risk posture.
• Support IAM governance, policies, and solutions across SSO, directory, certificate, MFA, privileged accounts, automation, and behavior analytics systems.
• Assess and resolve IAM issues that occur across the employee base, as well as with external entities.
• Secure access to both on-prem and cloud infrastructure, as well as to applications required to support a distributed remote workforce.
• Evaluate business impact and risk exposure based on the level of access granted and make recommendations where improvements should be made.
• Work closely with incident responders during potential incidents and escalate to management as needed.
• Document access, policies, and exceptions, and maintain integrity for audit reviews.
• Review internal, external and contractor accounts as part of periodic audits.
• Make recommendations for improvements in automation efficiencies, security practices and end-user experience.
• Collect key performance indicators and related operational metrics, and track SLAs used to validate success as well as future areas of improvement.
• Execute tactical requests and support the strategic vision for rigorous and scalable IAM controls.
• Maintain understanding of business processes to aid in managing enterprise identity and access.
• Frequently interact with business units to understand their plans, risk posture and tolerance, and how IAM supports their vision and business obligations with security in mind.
• Implement IAM projects from inception to completion on time and within budget.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Skills and Experience

• 4+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a strong focus on Identify and Access Management (IAM) and expertise in onboarding and offboarding processes at an enterprise scale.
• Extensive experience administering directory services such as Azure Ad, including user lifecycle management, group policies, and role-based access control (RBAC).
• Deep knowledge of Single Sign-On (SSO), Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA), Privileged Access Management (PAM) and Identity Federation.
• Proven ability do design, implement, and enforce access control policies, least privilege principles, and security best practices in large environments.
• Experience managing IAM tools and platforms for user provisioning, deprovisioning, and access reviews across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Experience collaborating with HR, IT, and Security Operations teams to streamline and automate identity lifecycle management while maintaining security and compliance.

Additional Qualifications

• Proven trustworthiness and history of acting with integrity, taking pride in work, seeking to excel, being curious and adaptable, and communicating well.
• Self-starter requiring minimal supervision.
• Analytical and problem-solving mindset.
• Highly organized and efficient.
• Demonstrated strategic and tactical thinking, along with decision-making skills and business acumen.
• Strong written and oral communication skills across varying levels of the organization.
• Understanding of service design, delivery concepts and control frameworks.
• Organized, with the ability to prioritize and complete tasks within defined SLAs.

Education Requirements

Bachelor's degree preferred in information assurance, computer science, engineering or related technical field.

Certification Requirements

• One or more of CISSP, GSEC, GISF, GCIA and GISP is preferable, but not required.