Ping Security Engineer

About This Role

This role is for a Senior Ping Identity Engineer who will design, deliver, and maintain customer identity and access management (IAM) solutions for an enterprise-scale client. The engineer will focus on Ping Directory and related Ping Identity products, working closely with IT Engineering and Information Security teams. The position involves architecting secure, scalable, and high-performance directory services, driving IAM integrations, optimizing directory performance, and supporting security initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain Ping Directory infrastructure and directory architecture, including schema and replication strategies.
• Integrate Ping Directory with authentication, authorization, SSO, federation, and broader IAM systems.
• Monitor, tune, and optimize directory performance, availability, and replication while performing troubleshooting and root-cause analyses.
• Develop and maintain standards, procedures, and guidelines for IAM and directory services operations.
• Support Information Security initiatives, risk assessments, audits, compliance efforts, and remediation of identity-related incidents.
• Provide technical leadership, consultation, and mentoring to junior engineers and offshore teams.

Requirements

• Strong communication skills
• Good work ethic
• PingDirectory expertise
• 8+ years of IT experience
• 4+ years focused on Ping Directory or similar LDAP-based directory services
• 5+ years of Identity & Access Management experience
• Hands-on experience with Ping Identity products: PingDirectory, PingAccess, PingFederate, PingOne
• Strong understanding of directory architecture, schema design, replication, distributed computing, and performance tuning
• Proficiency in Unix/Linux environments
• Experience with scripting languages such as Shell or Python
• Understanding of IAM concepts including SSO, federation, MFA, tokens, and directory security
• Experience integrating IAM or directory services with on-prem or hybrid cloud environments
• Knowledge of application and data security concepts, vulnerabilities, and enterprise security practices

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent experience
• 8+ years of IT experience, with at least 4 years focused on Ping Directory or similar LDAP-based directory services and 5+ years of Identity & Access Management experience.

Nice to Have

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or Information Systems
• Experience working with offshore teams
• Regulated industry experience (e.g., financial services)
• AWS
• Java
• PingFederate

Skills

* Required skills

Certifications