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Elevate your career journey by embracing a new challenge with Kinaxis. We are experts in tech, but it’s really our people who give us passion to always seek ways to do things better. As such, we’re serious about your career growth and professional development, because People matter at Kinaxis.
In 1984, we started out as a team of three engineers. Today, we have grown to become a global organization with over 2000 employees around the world, with a brand-new HQ based in Kanata North in Ottawa. As one of Canada’s Top Employers, we are proud to work with our customers and employees towards solving some of the biggest challenges facing supply chains today.
At Kinaxis, we power the world’s supply chains to help preserve the planet’s resources and enrich the human experience. As a global leader in end-to-end supply chain management, we enable supply chain excellence for all industries, with more than 40,000 users in over 100 countries. We are expanding our team as we continue to innovate and revolutionize how we support our customers.
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Ottawa, Canada: Hybrid
Other Canadian locations: Remote
About the roleThe Security Engineer, Identity and Access Management (IAM) specializes in managing and securing identities and access privileges within the organization with a primary focus on ensuring that the right individuals and accounts have the appropriate access to information systems, thereby minimizing the risk of unauthorized access. The position will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining security measures to protect the organization’s information systems by adopting identity management security best practices in a hybrid Cloud environment.
This person will interface with cross functional teams within Kinaxis such as Corporate IT, SaaS Operations, Development, Business Systems teams, Risk Management teams, and Technology partners to ensure IAM controls and Secrets management are adequately implemented to protect and maintain company-wide information security.
- Develop and implement IAM policies and procedures
- Design and implement systems that enhance the security of Kinaxis IAM Systems
- Document and implement identity governance solutions, access certification and reporting
- Troubleshoot and manage issues related to identities, systems access accounts, secrets, authentication, authorization, entitlements, and permissions
- Conduct design reviews as it relates to IAM and Secrets managements, provide recommendations on control implementations based on findings
- Build and maintain tools that improve the Identity and Access Management posture
- Participate in the development and oversight of corrective actions relating to security issues as it relates to Identities and Secrets
- Implement technologies to centrally integrate identity systems across the organization and automate solutions
- Design, implement, and manage Identity Directories and identity services
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand access requirements, secrets management requirements and drive the design, development, and implementation of improvements to our IAM systems
- Evaluate current secrets management posture and provide integration recommendations, ensuring alignment with organizational objectives
- Design and implement secure sharing mechanisms for controlled access to secrets
- Provide technical expertise and support for incident response related to IAM and secrets management
- Collaborate with the Security Operations team to implement adequate account and secret monitoring and logging capabilities
- Provide Level 3 support for IAM related internal issues and requests
- Implement and maintain technologies to ensure audit and privacy compliance
- Improve identity and access management solutions and systems for protection against evolving threats and efficiency
- Primary Skills and Experience
- BSc or BA in Information Security, Computer Science, Information Systems, or demonstrated equivalent experience
- Minimum of 5 years’ experience in Information Security (with at least 3 years as an IAM engineer or in a related position)
- Certifications such as Certified Identity Management Professional (CIMP), Certified Identity and Access Manager (CIAM) can enhance job prospects
- CISSP, CCSP, Comptia Cloud+/Security +, CISM, or GIAC certifications is an advantage
- Okta Certified Professional and Okta Certified System Administrator preferred
- Familiarity with cybersecurity best practices and industry standards
- Must be able to communicate technical details in a clear, concise, understandable manner
- Ability to manage competing priorities and simultaneous projects in a fast-paced environment with little supervision
- Strong communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Role Specific Skills and Experience
- Extensive knowledge and experience with identity and access management concepts such as single sign-on (SSO), multi factor authentication, passwordless authentication etc.
- Comprehensive knowledge and experience with authentication standards and technologies such as OAuth, OpenID Connect, SAML, LDAP etc.
- Proficiency in using and configuring secrets mgt. tools (e.g., HashiCorp Vault, PMP, etc.).
- Experience with Privilege Identity Management (PIM) and Privilege Access Management (PAM) systems (e.g. Azure PIM, CyberArk etc.)
- Extensive hands-on knowledge of identity and access management best practices, procedures, and software solutions such as CyberArk, Okta, etc.
- Experience with security and compliance requirements/frameworks, including but not limited to ISO 27001, NIST frameworks, GDPR, HIPAA, SOX, PCI, SOC2, OWASP etc.
- Experience with Directory services such as Azure IAM, Google IAM, Active Directory etc.
- Working knowledge of PowerShell, Python, or other scripting languages is an advantage
- Strong diagnostic and troubleshooting skills.
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Work With Impact: Our platform directly helps companies power the world’s supply chains. We see the results of what we do out in the world every day—when we see store shelves stocked, when medications are available for our loved ones, and so much more.
Work with Fortune 500 Brands: Companies across industries trust us to help them take control of their integrated business planning and digital supply chain. Some of our customers include Lockheed Martin, Yamaha, P&G, Honda, and more.
Social Responsibility at Kinaxis: Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee weighs in on hiring practices, talent assessment training materials, and mandatory training on unconscious bias and inclusion fundamentals. Sustainability is key to what we do and we’re committed to net-zero operations strategy for the long term. We are involved in our communities and support causes where we can make the most impact.
People matter at Kinaxis and these are some of the perks and benefits we created for our team:
- Flexible vacation and Kinaxis Days (company-wide day off on the last Friday of every month)
- Flexible work options
- Physical and mental well-being programs
- Regularly scheduled virtual fitness classes
- Mentorship programs and training and career development
- Recognition programs and referral rewards
- Hackathons
Kinaxis welcomes candidates to apply to our inclusive community. We provide accommodations upon request to ensure fairness and accessibility throughout our recruitment process for all candidates, including those with specific needs or disabilities. If you require an accommodation, please reach out to us at recruitmentprograms@kinaxis.com. Please note that this contact information is strictly for accessibility requests and cannot be used to inquire about application statuses.
Kinaxis is committed to ensuring a fair and transparent recruitment process. We use artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the initial step of the recruitment process to compare submitted resumes against the job description, to identify candidates whose education, experience and skills most closely match the requirements of the role. After the initial screening, all subsequent decisions regarding your application, including final selection, are made by our human recruitment team. AI does not make any final hiring decisions.
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