An employer is seeking a remote IAM Team Lead for a direct-hire opportunity. This individual will be a dedicated resource responsible leading a newly built AWS IAM operations team. The team currently sits at 10 employees that is likely to grow as the year progresses. This resource will act as primary source of escalation to assist with AWS IAM engineering team issues supporting development or operational activities related to AWS IAM. Additionally, they will manage AWS IAM Service Request process, queue, and delivery of AWS IAM resources including users, groups, roles, and policies. This person will be taking ownership of this team and keep things organized.
Additional Functions:
* Conducts thorough reviews of service requests to ensure all requirements for approvals and documentation are met.
* Evaluates existing AWS IAM permission policies and adjust them as needed to enforce principle of least privilege.
* Ensure effective security protection controls and hardening requirements are in place for all AWS IAM resources
* Actively monitor and respond accordingly to AWS IAM configuration changes, events, and alerts following applicable Cloud IAM Engineering team process and procedures
* Ensure all AWS IAM resources and configuration adhere to and compliant with all policies/standards, industry best practices/benchmarks, and regulatory requirements
* Troubleshoot, triage, manage, and resolve incidents and/or problems related to AWS IAM Configuration
* Conducts weekly Service Operations Review for the team to ensure service requests are getting fulfilled and conflicts are being addressed.
* Reviews CloudFormation Pull Requests commits to ensure required security and governance requirements are present in the templates and communicates deficiencies as necessary.
* Provides CloudFormation (CFN) template development expertise to assist team members in troubleshooting syntax as well as other errors in the templates as needed to advance the fulfillment of service requests.
* Provides CFN Cloud Service technical expertise to troubleshoot errors logged in in the Stack Instance status or CFN StackSet Operations as needed to advance the fulfillment of service requests.
* Supervises the Assess and Plan steps for all Change Requests needed to fulfill the Service Requests to ensure all necessary documentation is present as required by our process documentation.
* Provides monthly report to Cloud IAM Engineering Product Owner and Product Manager an Operations Summary
3+ years of experience in a leadership role managing a team, 6+ years of hands-on technical experience
Experienced in AWS identity access management (IAM)
Strong AWS background -- AWS IAM, CloudFormation
Strong communication -- ability to present with stakeholders and build relationships with different business units
AWS Certified Security -- Specialty Certification **Highly preferred**
AWS Certified Solutions Architect -- Professional or Associate
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.