Identity and Access Management Analyst

About Us
Our mission at the State of Connecticut Department of Administrative Service Bureau of Enterprise Systems & Technology (DAS/BEST) is to improve productivity through the effective use of technology. The Application Services Division has formed a new unit to consolidate Directory Services and Identity and Access Management (IAM).

Your Role

Are you passionate about staying ahead of IT trends and technical advancements? Would you love to work in a dynamic and motivating team environment that adheres to security principles, techniques and protocols?

Discover this exciting opportunity to join DAS BEST as an Identity and Access Management Analyst (Information Technology Analyst 2). We are recruiting for a best-in-class Information Technology professional who is experienced with PowerShell scripting and reading/analyzing Web technologies such as:

• JavaScript Object Notation (JSON),
  
• Hypertext Markup Language (HTML),
  
• JavaScript,
  
• Extensible Markup Language (XML) and jQuery.

Position Details

• Your work schedule will be from Monday-Friday, 8:00am-5:00pm
• Primary work location is 55 Farmington Avenue, Hartford, CT.
  

The Team
The IAM unit will be responsible for handling the creation and protection of identities along with the applications and data being accessed within them. You will be part of a team to help handle the provisioning and de-provisioning of accounts to support access to user productivity tools and the underlying expansion of enterprise applications.

These enterprise solutions will require strategic placement to develop the appropriate identity, application access and directory integration services to reduce the creation of additional ID and Passwords for state employees, citizens and businesses. The strategy will also address the existing technical debt with manual administration of access to agency legacy systems and will further assist the state with improving its security posture with an enterprise view of security assets to improve monitoring, risk management and incident response. 

Some of the projects you will work on: 

• Web front end, application, and Microsoft Structured Query Language (MSSQL) servers;
• Cloud deployment and service models including Cloud services security demands for Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Office 365;
• Reading, understanding, and fixing Structured Query Language (SQL) queries;
• Identity and Access Management concepts and strategies;
• Federated authentication solutions and techniques working with the service provider’s (internal and external) developers for adopting Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) solutions within their services to be compatible with Varian demands;
• Networking technologies and core network communications;
• VMware, Windows Operating Systems (OS), Linux/Unix.

All applicants must include a resume within the "Resume Tab" of their application.

Note: At any point during the recruitment process, applicants may be required to submit additional documentation which support their qualification(s) for this position. These documents may include: a cover letter, performance reviews, attendance records, supervisory references, college transcripts, licensure, etc., at the discretion of the hiring agency.

Applicants must meet the minimum qualifications as indicated to apply for this position. State employees currently holding the above title or those who have previously attained permanent status in this class may apply for a lateral transfer.

Questions about these required documents or any other phase of this recruitment should be directed to the hiring agency's human resources office: Elena Vazquez, elena.vazquez@ct.gov. 

In a state agency Information Technology (IT) environment, this class is accountable for independently performing a full range of information technology tasks and project coordination work involving infrastructure systems support, security and application development in an IT environment.

The primary responsibilities of this position will involve:

• Developing partnerships with enterprise and large agency applications teams to collect and define technical requirements to ensure all are understood and aligned to business objectives;
  
• Understanding the security and data policies to ensure compliance objectives are known and achieved within the system designs;
  
• The process of provisioning and de-provisioning users in collaboration with enterprise and agency application teams;
  
• Leading access management for application or any other platform integration on-premise or cloud based;
  
• Implementation of data security and privacy necessary to meet National, Federal, State regulatory and compliance requirements;
  
• Participation future projects with requirements for access management integration;
  
• Interface to the Help Desk to coordinate and define workflow process, knowledge base articles and standards;
  
• Operating procedures which concerns identity and access management;
  
• Work closely with the Information Technology Security and Platform Services teams to ensure the success of Identity and Access Management on daily operations and integration;
  
• Work with the directory services and solution architect to plan new services and initiatives to identify new technologies to achieve forecasted capability demands;
  
• Is responsible to handle changes, request and incidents on daily periodic basis and related duties.

Considerable knowledge of IT equipment and diagnostic tools; considerable knowledge of principles and techniques of systems analysis, design, development and programming; considerable knowledge of principles of information systems; considerable knowledge of principles and theories of business and planning functions; considerable knowledge of programming languages; considerable knowledge of capabilities of computer technology; knowledge of methods and procedures used to conduct detailed analysis and design of computer systems; knowledge of principles and techniques of software generation and programming; knowledge of practices and issues of systems’ security and disaster recovery; knowledge of computer operating systems; knowledge of project management principles and techniques; knowledge of principles and techniques of business information systems re-engineering; considerable technical problem solving skills; considerable logic and analytical skills; considerable oral and written communication skills; considerable problem solving skills; interpersonal skills; project coordination skills; considerable ability to analyze, troubleshoot and resolve data communications problems; considerable ability to write, test and debug computer programs; considerable ability to use programming development tools; considerable ability to prepare manuals, reports, documentation and other written materials; considerable ability to identify, analyze and resolve complex business and technical problems; ability to analyze and debug complex software programs.

Six (6) years of experience in information technology (IT) operations, programming, systems/software development or another IT related support area.

One (1) year of the General Experience must have been performing professional information technology work in one of the following areas:
1. Installation and support of microcomputer hardware, software and operating systems.
2. Analysis, design and development of information systems.
3. Network hardware and software installation and support.
4. Network hardware and/or software problem diagnosis and resolution.
NOTE: For state employees this is interpreted at the level of Information Technology Analyst 1.

1. College training in management information systems, computer science or information technology related area may be substituted for the General Experience on the basis of fifteen (15) semester hours equalling six (6) months of experience to a maximum of four (4) years for a Bachelor's degree.


2. A Master's degree in management information systems, computer science or electrical engineering may be substituted for one (1) additional year of the General Experience.

The successful candidate will possess:

• Five (5) years of experience implementing and supporting common three (3) tier Microsoft centric application platforms;
  
• Experience with federated identity partner solutions;
  
• Five (5) years of Information Technology experience with integrating enterprise business applications to achieve identity and access management objectives;
  
• Experience with senior level application environments;
  
• Experience with Cloud services security demands;
  
• Enterprise experience working with security systems.

AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.