AVP, Cloud IAM Engineer(L10)

Hyderabad IN

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Job Description:

Role Title: AVP, Cloud IAM Engineer

Company Overview:

Synchrony (NYSE: SYF) is a premier consumer financial services company delivering one of the industry’s most complete digitally enabled product suites. Our experience, expertise and scale encompass a broad spectrum of industries including digital, health and wellness, retail, telecommunications, home, auto, outdoors, pet and more.

  • We have recently been ranked #5 among India’s Best Companies to Work for 2023, #21 under LinkedIn Top Companies in India list, and received Top 25 BFSI recognition from Great Place To Work India. We have been ranked Top 5 among India’s Best Workplaces in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and Top 10 among India’s Best Workplaces for Women in 2022.

  • We offer 100% Work from Home flexibility for all our Functional employees and provide some of the best-in-class Employee Benefits and Programs catering to work-life balance and overall well-being. In addition to this, we also have Regional Engagement Hubs across India and a co-working space in Bangalore.

Organizational Overview:

The AVP, Cloud IAM Engineer is part of the Synchrony Cloud IAM Engineering (CIE) team and is and AWS IAM subject matter expert responsible for advancing AWS IAM services, entities, configuration, and best practices at Synchrony. The candidate would have an engineering position focused on delivering robust AWS IAM controls, efficient supporting processes, & comprehensive automation capabilities to protect & enable Synchrony’s Public Cloud migration strategy at scale. The candidate is expected to have a strong understanding of AWS IAM risks, controls, security, and operations.

Role Summary/Purpose:

The AVP, Cloud IAM Engineer will play a critical role in the engineering and delivery of solutions that enable the strategic modernization & transformation of Synchrony’s AWS Public Cloud platform. This individual will understand the Synchrony technology ecosystem and engineer solutions to drive critical governance & oversight of Identity & Access Management for Synchrony’s AWS systems. Additionally, this individual will help support and advance the Cloud IAM Engineering team’s strategy for enabling our business.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Design, engineer, deploy, and document AWS IAM solutions working closely with application architects & lead engineers, product teams, information security, and risk management functions

  • Develop automation necessary to build, test, deploy, and maintain Cloud IAM Engineering solutions that adhere to Financial Services regulatory requirements and follow DevOps processes

  • Continuously improve AWS IAM Engineering processes to reduce friction & accelerate the adoption of innovative new cloud technologies for Synchrony at scale.

  • Deploy robust preventative controls & automation to enhance effectiveness of foundational controls and minimize the AWS IAM attack surface.

  • Maintain strong security posture & resiliency through comprehensive compliance and continuous monitoring procedures.

  • Evaluate existing AWS IAM permission policies and adjust them as needed to enforce principle of least privilege.

  • Ensure effective security protection controls are in place using AWS IAM Policy conditions, trusted entities, and all other applicable constraints.

  • Adhere to and champion the technical excellence and good design principles following standard technical Cloud IAM Engineering documentation including standard configuration, design patterns, technical requirements, architecture diagrams, and sequence/flow diagrams

  • Provide deep subject matter expertise for AWS IAM platform services, entities, configuration, and best practices

  • Drive the operational & technical excellence of Cloud IAM Engineering processes and technologies leveraging performance and availability metrics

  • Apply technical knowledge, industry experience, expertise, and insights to contribute to the development & execution of Cloud IAM Engineering features

  • Day-to-day management and maintenance of any AWS IAM configuration required to support business requirements, application integrations, workloads, regulatory compliance, and other cloud platform efforts or deliverables.

  • Collaborate across cross-functional teams to improve and deliver on business objectives and priorities.

  • Collaborate with various groups and individuals to troubleshoot and resolve escalated production issues.

Required Skills/Knowledge:

  • Graduation in Computer Science / other technical degree or Business Management and 4+ years of IT experience or in lieu of degree High School Diploma/GED and 6+ years of IT experience.

  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in the development & operational support of Identity & Access Management processes including joiners, movers, leavers, least privilege access management, & access certifications.

  • Minimum of 3 years of experience in the development & operational support of AWS IAM technologies such as IAM Roles, Groups, Users, Policies.

  • Minimum of 3 years of experience with AWS IAM Permissions, SAML Roles, Cross-Account Roles, and Service-Link Roles and applying access conditions and restrictions.

  • Minimum of 2 years of experience in automating AWS resource deployments using AWS CloudFormation and/or Hashicorp Terraform while adhering to DevOps & CI/CD best practices

  • Minimum of 2 years of experience working with agile methodologies on a product team

Desired Skills/Knowledge:

  • Proven analytical mindset; Ability to identify patterns or correlation within data sets.

  • Critical attention to detail; Ability to coordinate multiple deliverables across multiple teams.

  • Strong engineering and architecture skills; especially in information security.

  • Hands-on experience using DevOps technologies such as Git & Jenkins to automate the continuous delivery & deployment of AWS IAM solutions.

  • Hands-on experience working across various identity functions including Identity Governance & Administration, Authentication / Authorization, Directory Services, Privilege Management, and Secrets Management.

  • Experience designing and building resilient API/Microservice solutions with DevOps and fully automated service delivery capabilities.

  • Knowledge of the organization’s enterprise technology goals and objectives.

  • Knowledge of the organization's core business/mission processes.

  • Knowledge of Personally Identifiable Information (PII) data security standards.

  • Knowledge of Payment Card Industry (PCI) data security standards.

  • Knowledge of laws, policies, procedures, or governance relevant to cybersecurity for critical infrastructures.

  • Knowledge of cyber defense and information security policies, procedures, and regulations.

  • Knowledge of information technology (IT) risk management policies, requirements, and procedures.

  • Skill in creating policies that reflect system security objectives.

Eligibility Criteria:

Graduation in Computer Science / other technical degree or Business Management and 4+years of IT experience or in lieu of degree High School Diploma/GED and 6+ years of IT experience.

WORK TIMINGS: This role qualifies for Enhanced Flexibility and Choice offered in Synchrony India and will require the incumbent to be available between 06:00 AM Eastern Time – 11:30 AM Eastern Time (timings are anchored to US Eastern hours and will adjust twice a year locally). This window is for meetings with India and US teams. The remaining hours will be flexible for the employee to choose. Exceptions may apply periodically due to business needs. Please discuss this with the hiring manager for more details.)

For Internal Applicants:

  • Understand the criteria or mandatory skills required for the role, before applying

  • Inform your manager and HRM before applying for any role on Workday

  • Ensure that your professional profile is updated (fields such as education, prior experience, other skills) and it is mandatory to upload your updated resume (Word or PDF format)

  • Must not be any corrective action plan (First Formal/Final Formal, PIP)

  • L8+ Employees who have completed 18 months in the organization and 12 months in current role and level are only eligible

  • L8+ Employees can apply

Level/Grade 10

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Information Technology

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Tags: Agile APIs Automation AWS CI/CD Cloud Compliance Computer Science Cyber defense DevOps Governance IAM Jenkins Monitoring Risk management SAML Strategy Terraform

Perks/benefits: Flex hours Health care Wellness

Region: Asia/Pacific
Country: India

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