Lead Engineer - Ping SSO Authentication Services

Company Background:

Genuine Parts Company ("GPC" or the "Company"), founded in 1928 and based in Atlanta, Georgia, is a leading distributor of automotive and industrial replacement parts and value-added services. The Company operates a global portfolio of businesses with more than 10,000 locations across the world. GPC has approximately 50,000 global employees. The Company has operations in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, Singapore, France, the U.K., Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Spain and China.

Position Purpose:

This position's primary function as Lead Engineer for Access Management is to help maintain and simplify our security programs. Close collaboration with senior and principal team members is required to produce solutions, advance with new technologies, and explore new challenges. This is a dynamic role with a focus on Ping SSO / Directory Architecture, and cross functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Understand authentication services and integration with broader security solutions such as SSO, MFA, Directory services, PAM etc.

• Plan, design, and develop technical solutions and alternatives to meet business requirements in adherence with GPC standards, processes, and best practices.

• Handle P1, P2 and P3 incidents, Pro-active/Availability & monitoring SLA management

• Represent the IAM (Identity & Access Management) organization on large scale technology projects implemented outside IAM, regulatory reviews, and internal and external audits.

• Provide SME experience for daily team system development and maintenance activities.

• Manage small projects and enhancements across the SSO team, as needed (certification renewal, etc.). Update and create SSO documentation for technical support groups, as needed

• Partner with various teams in implementation of processes.

• Collaborate and socialize IAM strategy with Senior leadership and executives.

• Perform POC's to assess and identify the technologies per the needs of the organization.

• Implement technology platforms, document architecture and related capabilities needed for the unified commerce strategy decided by leadership

• Assess the efficiency of technologies and applications

• Build, set up, and improve systems, procedures and applications

• Collaborate with the wider engineering teams

• Utilize software to perform efficient planning, designing and development

• Perform quality control and resolve technical design issues throughout the implementation and management stages of systems, processes and planning

• Collect and interpret analytical and performance data, as well as prepare progress reports

• Ensure compliance with industry standards at regular intervals

• Keeping abreast of developments and innovation in the primary areas of specialization

• You will also be involved as a SME in enterprise infrastructure SSO projects where you will interact with various business, security, engineering and operational teams

• Manage queue of incoming SSO requests, prioritizing according to business need

• Negotiate timing and set expectations with the business for each request

• Fulfill incoming requests for setup and configuration of SSO Connected Applications (Service Providers) on the Identity product (Identity Provider)

• Communicate updates and backlog of requests with management

• Collect and interpret analytical and performance data, as well as prepare progress reports

• Ensure compliance with industry standards at regular intervals

• Keeping abreast of developments and innovation in the primary areas of specialization

• Motivate the team of engineers to develop best-in-class solutions

• Other duties as assigned

Location:

• GPC has two work locations to choose from, Duluth or Atlanta office.

• We offer a Flexible Work Policy that permits eligible employees to work a hybrid remote schedule.

Desired Qualifications & Experiences:

• Bachelor's degree in IT, cybersecurity, related field, or equivalent experience

• 5 years (8+ preferred) of experience in PingFederate , Ping Directory LDAP, Ping Directory Proxy, Single-Sign-On tools

• Strong fundamental of IAM- Identity, Authentication and Authorization

• Experience with protocols like LDAP, SAML, OAuth and OpenID Connect.

• Experience in with PingFederate / Ping Directory and managing using LDAP, SCIM and Rest API's

• Experience with integrations of PingFederate and Ping Directory. These include but are not limited to Unix Command Line Proficiency ability to ssh, ftp, run filesystem commands, search logs, use shell scripts to automate common tasks, etc

• Experience in handling P1, P2 and P3 incidents, Pro-active/Availability & monitoring SLA management

• Consistent track record of leadership, teamwork, and delivering high impact results.

• Experience with public cloud offerings is a plus

• Experience serving as key technical contributor in a team of at least 5+ engineers

• Experience with Microsoft Services to include Active Directory and Azure Active Directory, Ping Identity Suites, Java

• Effective collaboration, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills

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