Summary
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Ensure the reliability and security of critical enterprise identity services. As an SRE, you will focus on availability, scalability, operational resilience, and secure access for business applications while helping improve the engineering practices and automation that support these essential services.
Highlights
Opportunity to own the reliability, availability, scalability, and security of critical enterprise identity services in a global technology environment.
Description
SSO SRE Engineer (f/m/d)
We are HCLTech, one of the fastest-growing large tech companies in the world and home to 225,000+ people across 60 countries, supercharging progress through industry-leading capabilities centered around Digital, Engineering and Cloud.
The driving force behind that work, our people, are diverse, creative, and passionate, raising the bar for excellence on a regular basis.
We, in turn, work hard to bring out the best in them as we strive to help them find their spark and become the best version of themselves that they can be.
If all this sounds like an environment you’ll thrive in, then you’re in the right place.
Join us on our journey in advancing the technological world through innovation and creativity.
We are seeking a highly skilled SSO Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) to ensure the reliability, availability, scalability, and security of enterprise Single Sign-On (SSO) services supporting critical business applications.
The role combines Identity & Access Management (IAM), SSO platform administration, automation, monitoring, incident management, and Site Reliability Engineering practices to deliver highly available authentication and federation services across on-premises and cloud environments.
Key Responsibilities:
SSO Platform Operations
Administer and support enterprise SSO platforms and federation services.Manage authentication integrations across cloud, SaaS, and on-premises applications.Ensure high availability and resilience of SSO infrastructure.Maintain and optimize federation trust relationships.
Reliability Engineering
Define and monitor SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets for authentication services.Perform capacity planning and platform performance optimization.Drive reliability improvements through automation and operational excellence.Participate in on-call support and major incident management.
Identity & Federation Management
Support SSO technologies such as: Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)PingFederateForgeRockRed Hat SSOExperience with GCP (preferred)Configure and troubleshoot: SAML 2.0OAuth 2.0OpenID Connect (OIDC)WS-FederationLDAP/LDAPSKerberosAutomation & DevOps
Develop automation using PowerShell, Python, Terraform, Bash, and YAML.Automate user onboarding, provisioning, federation configuration, certificate renewals, and reporting.Integrate SSO services with CI/CD pipelines.Implement Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and platform standardization.Monitoring & Observability
Implement monitoring, alerting, and health-check mechanisms for authentication systems.Utilize tools such as: SplunkDynatraceGrafanaPrometheusConduct proactive troubleshooting and root cause analysis.Security & Compliance
Ensure compliance with enterprise security standards and regulatory requirements.Support security audits and access reviews.Manage authentication certificates, secrets, and cryptographic controls.Partner with cybersecurity teams on identity-related risk remediation.
Required Skills & Experience:
Identity & Access Management
Deep understanding of: Single Sign-On (SSO)Federation ServicesIdentity Lifecycle ManagementConditional AccessMulti-Factor Authentication (MFA)Authentication Protocols
Strong hands-on expertise with: SAML 2.0OAuth 2.0OpenID Connect (OIDC)KerberosLDAPWS-Federation
SRE & Operations
Incident, Problem, Change, and Availability Management.Monitoring and observability tools.Production support in large-scale enterprise environments.Capacity planning and performance optimization.DevOps
GitHub/GitLabCI/CD pipelinesInfrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
Experience
7 to 10+ years of overall IT experience.3+ years supporting MFA, IAM, or Authentication platforms.Experience working in large enterprise or financial services environments preferred.
Key Competencies
Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.Excellent stakeholder management.Automation-first mindset.Operational excellence and continuous improvement focus.________________________________________________________________________
We promote equal opportunities for all employees, regardless of their cultural and social background, gender, disability, age, religion, beliefs, and sexual identity.
We give priority consideration to severely disabled applicants and those of equal status in the case of equal suitability.