SecOps Engineer - Identity Authentication

At Lilly, we unite caring with discovery to make life better for people around the world. We are a global healthcare leader headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana. Our employees around the world work to discover and bring life-changing medicines to those who need them, improve the understanding and management of disease, and give back to our communities through philanthropy and volunteerism. We give our best effort to our work, and we put people first. We’re looking for people who are determined to make life better for people around the world.

Ready to put your mark on the world of cybersecurity? We’re looking for a SecOps Engineer to bring fresh perspectives and bold solutions to our team. In this role, you’ll be instrumental in shaping how our organization provides secure, appropriate, and timely access to enterprise resources. 

What You'll Be Doing: 

This SecOps Engineer will be part of the Lilly Cybersecurity team, responsible for delivering and securing technology that supports the Lilly mission, specifically focused on identity and access management (IAM) technologies. In this role, you will partner with the various business, information technology, and larger cyber security teams to ensure technology is designed and deployed securely and aligned with Cybersecurity and enterprise technology strategies. You will create technical specifications, design patterns, standards as code and security guidance across identity capabilities and services where needed.  You'll be a key contributor in identifying key processes around the development of our security service and working to develop proactive approaches for support, deployment, and optimizations of security toolsets.    

How You'll Succeed: 

• As a SecOps Engineer, you will bring your technical experience to evaluate and select advanced identity and access technologies to meet business and security requirements. 

• Implement and maintain technical integration of identity technologies to meet business requirements.  

• Ensure operational excellence for all IAM Services. 

• Understand the threat landscape with the ability to translate the general threats into relevant business and technical impacts.   

• As a superb communicator with strong interpersonal skills, you will work and collaborate effectively on a team including with remote team members, to define, design and implement identity capabilities and solutions.   

• Focusing on our business partners, you will develop and implement technical solutions and capabilities in Identity that improve security while enhancing user experience.  

• With a high level of curiosity, you’ll keep abreast of the latest developments in IAM technologies, security threats, and regulatory changes. 

• Drive the adoption of innovative and creative solutions to address complex, global IAM problems. 

• Collaborate with enterprise IT, architects and stakeholders to understand business needs and incorporate feedback into the IAM technologies and solutions. 

Your Basic Qualifications: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology or related field . 

• 5+ years demonstrated technical experience evaluating, designing, developing and supporting Identity and Access Management technologies and capabilities. 

• 5+ years technical experience with Azure AD/Entra ID. 

• 5+ years of experience with authentication and authorization technologies and federated identity standards and protocols (multifactor authentication, certificate-based authentication, LDAP Kerberos, OAuth, SAML, OpenID Connect). 

Additional Preferences: 

• Broad technical experience across identity and access management technologies. 

• Experience in designing, developing, implementing, and supporting enterprise-class security systems and services. 

• Ability to translate Customer requirements that effectively balance user experience, supportability and security. 

• Strong communication and presentation skills, and ability to adapt messaging for diverse audiences.  

• Effective collaboration with other Technical counterparts, Leaders and Stakeholders to deliver and enhance IAM solutions. 

• Demonstrated self-starter that is accountable to delivering solutions that meet defined timelines and budget. 

• Ability to work with a distributed and virtual team. 

• Experience developing solutions with PowerShell, Python, NodeJS, PHP or other development and scripting languages. 

• Critical thinking, analytical skills, and thought leadership. 

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, and ability to adapt messaging for diverse audiences.  

• Experience with IT Service Management (ITIL). 

• Experience in addressing consumer data regulations and integrating regulatory and industry standards (ISO/IEC, PCI DSS, SOX, HIPAA, FDA, GDPR, CCPA) into cybersecurity designs.  

• An understanding of common services used in cloud-based architectures, with experience in AWS and/or Azure, and awareness of cloud platform security and controls. 

• Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, or similar. 

Additional information:

• Remote with travel to Indianapolis - 10-25%

• Local candidates will be required to work a hybrid model at the Lilly Corporate Center in Indianapolis, Indiana.

• Lilly currently anticipates that the base salary for this position could range from between $123,000 to $213,400 and will depend, in part, on the successful candidate’s qualifications for the role, including education and experience. Full-time equivalent employees also will be eligible for a company bonus (depending, in part, on company and individual performance). In addition, Lilly offers a comprehensive benefit program to eligible employees, including eligibility to participate in a company-sponsored 401(k); pension; vacation benefits; eligibility for medical, dental, vision and prescription drug benefits; flexible benefits (e.g., healthcare and/or dependent day care flexible spending accounts); life insurance and death benefits; certain time off and leave of absence benefits; and well-being benefits (e.g., employee assistance program, fitness benefits, and employee clubs and activities).  Of course, the compensation described above is subject to change and could be higher or lower than the range described above.  Further, Lilly reserves the right to amend, modify, or terminate its compensation and benefit programs in its sole discretion and Lilly’s compensation practices and guidelines will apply regarding the details of any promotion or transfer of Lilly employees.

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