Staff Engineer - Identity and Access Management

Staff Engineer – Identity and Access Management Locations: This role requires associates to be in-office 1‑2 days per week, fostering collaboration and connectivity while providing flexibility to support productivity and work‑life balance. Alternate locations may be considered if candidates reside within a commuting distance from an office. NOTE: This position is not eligible for current or future VISA sponsorship. The Staff Engineer – Identity and Access Management maintains enterprise information security policies, technical standards, guidelines, procedures, and other elements of an infrastructure necessary to support information security in compliance with established company policies, regulatory requirements, and generally accepted information security controls. Responsible for the delivery of strategic network security, access control, and secure transaction/messaging solutions. How You Will Make an Impact Develop the IAM framework and platform for an identity‑centric control pane for Agentic AI. Develop a unified identity platform that centralizes access management, scales with enterprise demand, and simplifies governance while enabling flexibility for future evolution. Provide first‑level engineering design functions and troubleshooting. Lead or plan implementations for access management and network security technologies. Develop testing plans to ensure quality of implementation. Lead the investigation and reporting of data security events and incidents. Provide system and network architecture support for information and network security technologies. Maintain security incident response plans. Represent major upgrades and business system replacements in change control. Recommend changes and updates to strategy. Lead level 1 & 2 incident recoveries. Organize the efforts of other analysts as part of incident recovery; lead root‑cause analysis efforts. Minimum Requirements Requires BS/BA degree in Information Technology or related field and a minimum of 5 years experience in systems support, system administration, system engineering, system security, access management, network security, computer networking, telecommunications, and related areas. Requires experience in planning and designing highly complex systems. Preferred Skills, Experiences and Competencies Expertise in architecting complex Identity and Access Management (IAM) platforms and solutions. Strong proficiency in Java, Spring ecosystem, and microservices architecture. Experience leading cloud migrations (On‑Prem to AWS). Strong experience implementing authentication protocols like OAuth, OIDC and SAML. Deep understanding of AWS services and cloud‑native architectures. Expertise in CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, Docker, and Kubernetes. Experience with event‑driven architectures (RabbitMQ, Kafka, etc.). Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL databases. Experience with infrastructure‑as‑code tools (Terraform, Helm). Familiarity with RBAC products and integrations (SailPoint, Workday). Experience facilitating cross‑functional planning and requirements gathering. Working knowledge of Python scripting and Unix/Linux environments. Technical security certifications (e.g. Systems Security Certified Practitioner) strongly preferred. Benefits We offer a range of market‑competitive total rewards that include merit increases, paid holidays, paid time off, incentive bonus programs (unless covered by a collective bargaining agreement), medical, dental, vision, short‑ and long‑term disability benefits, 401(k) + match, stock purchase plan, life insurance, wellness programs and financial education resources, to name a few. #J-18808-Ljbffr Elevance Health