IAM/RBAC Engineer

Hybrid 4 days onsite in either New York, NY or Pitt, PA or Lake Mary, FL

Our client seeks an IAM/RBAC Engineer to design, implement, and administer access controls in Microsoft Entra ID and Azure RBAC. The contractor will enforce least-privilege, govern privileged and remote access, strengthen authenticator management, and maintain audit-ready documentation and monitoring across Azure environments.

This is a contract to hire opportunity. Applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis and convert to FTE following contract duration. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $82.00 to $92.00/hr. w2

• Define and maintain an enterprise Azure RBAC role taxonomy and document role-to-permission mappings.
• Map permissions to roles and enforce least-privilege via security groups and scoped role assignments.
• Eliminate broad direct privilege assignments and track changes to access models.
• Implement PIM and JIT workflows for elevated access with approvals and time-bound permissions.
• Establish standards for VPN, jump hosts, and privileged session configurations and restrictions.
• Define and manage emergency access procedures with incident notification and post-event review.
• Configure MFA for privileged roles using strong authenticators such as smartcards or security keys.
• Provision Azure AD administrator roles for applicable services, including SQL.
• Enforce managed identities for applications and reduce reliance on local service keys.
• Prevent unencrypted static credentials in code and enforce secret hygiene standards.
• Author and maintain IAM policies, standards, and operating procedures.
• Conduct periodic access reviews and support audit evidence collection.
• Maintain asset and data inventories and baseline configurations aligned with configuration management.
• Configure Azure-native monitoring and logging for identity and access events.
• Route alerts to service owners and security teams and support audit readiness.

• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Entra ID, Azure RBAC, security groups, PIM, and JIT access workflows.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Policy, managed identities, and Azure AD admin role provisioning.
• Familiarity with Azure monitoring and logging and AAA concepts.
• Strong understanding of least-privilege design and access control best practices in Azure.
• Competence in baseline configuration management and accurate inventory maintenance.
• Experience implementing least-privilege at scale and articulating Azure RBAC rationale.
• Ability to author IAM policies and procedures, perform access reviews, and support audits.
• Proven capability governing remote and elevated access and emergency access processes.
• Effective communication and documentation skills for technical writing and stakeholder coordination.
• Ability to collaborate with engineering, security, and operations teams for compliant access practices.
• Nice-to-have: Integration with approval systems and ticketing, application identity patterns and CI/CD secret controls, and audit readiness for cloud access controls.

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About Eliassen Group:

Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients’ capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.

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