IDAM Engineer

IT Services at the University of Manchester is a vibrant and fast-moving department, we focus on delivering excellent customer service and quality services for our staff, students and researchers.

You will, as part of the team, support all aspects of the identity lifecycle, including onboarding and offboarding of staff and students as well as managing and maintaining the underlying directories and authentication protocols to provision and assure appropriate and relevant access throughout a user’s journey. This may include set up of and maintenance of Groups, fault finding through the systems, access review activity, getting involved in the development and design of new or existing solutions, working closely with Project teams as well as or staff and students to support IDAM queries.

The role will be working within a multidiscipline team and there is opportunity to work and gain experience across the IDAM capabilities, you will work closely with and be supported by Senior engineers as well as with our IDAM Administrators to manage and support resolution of incidents and requests.

The role has a particular focus on our new technologies currently in development and as such experience with SailPoint, or equivalent IAM products is highly desirable, wider knowledge of IAM technologies will also be advantageous including NetIQ OpenText.

Are you passionate about Identity and Access Management, do you have demonstrable experience in an IDAM oriented role, can you bring your expertise and skills to a Higher Education environment which is complex and evolving?

We are looking for a highly motivated IDAM Engineer to be a part of our highly skilled and ambitious IDAM team. You should possess in-depth knowledge, hands-on experience in the technologies we support, and an excellent understanding of IDAM principles and policies. You will also need to be able to work closely with colleagues in other areas including the Support Centre, Infrastructure, and Networks for example, as well as our Security and Architecture teams therefore good collaboration and communication skills are essential.

As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.

Our University is positive about flexible working – you can find out more here

Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.

Please be aware that due to the number of applications we unfortunately may not able to provide individual feedback on your application.

Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.

Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to People.Recruitment@manchester.ac.uk.

Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

Enquiries about the vacancy, shortlisting and interviews:

Please contact our IT Resource Management Team

Email: it.resource@manchester.ac.uk

General enquiries:

Email: People.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk

Technical support:

0161 850 2004 https://jobseekersupport.jobtrain.co.uk/support/home

This vacancy will close for applications at midnight on the closing date.

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