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Senior Automation Engineer - Identity Governance
Employment Type:
Contract
Job Number: 25676
Remote Options: Hybrid
Job Description
Senior Automation Engineer – Identity Governance
Location
Burbank, CA | Seattle, WA | Orlando, FL
Hybrid – 4 Days Onsite Per Week (No Flexibility)
Employment Type
4-Month Contract (Potential for Extension)
Compensation
Competitive hourly rate
Overview
We are seeking a Senior Automation Engineer with expertise in Identity Governance and enterprise automation to support large-scale identity compliance and remediation initiatives for our client.
This role will focus on designing and implementing automated, policy-driven solutions that improve identity hygiene, governance, and operational efficiency across complex directory environments.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience building automation frameworks within enterprise IAM ecosystems, with a focus on Active Directory, Entra ID, compliance enforcement, and self-healing remediation workflows.
Key Responsibilities Identity Governance & Automated Remediation
Burbank, CA | Seattle, WA | Orlando, FL
Hybrid – 4 Days Onsite Per Week (No Flexibility)
Employment Type
4-Month Contract (Potential for Extension)
Compensation
Competitive hourly rate
Overview
We are seeking a Senior Automation Engineer with expertise in Identity Governance and enterprise automation to support large-scale identity compliance and remediation initiatives for our client.
This role will focus on designing and implementing automated, policy-driven solutions that improve identity hygiene, governance, and operational efficiency across complex directory environments.
The ideal candidate will have strong experience building automation frameworks within enterprise IAM ecosystems, with a focus on Active Directory, Entra ID, compliance enforcement, and self-healing remediation workflows.
Key Responsibilities Identity Governance & Automated Remediation
- Design and implement automation for identity governance and compliance remediation across enterprise directory services
- Build workflows to identify and remediate:
- Inactive accounts
- Orphaned identities
- Misconfigurations
- Policy drift
- Automate lifecycle-based remediation processes, including:
- Automatic account disablement
- Timed account deletion workflows
- Identity cleanup and governance enforcement
- Eliminate manual and ticket-driven remediation activities through scalable automation
- Develop automated controls for:
- Service account password rotation
- Expiration notifications
- Identity security baseline enforcement
- Ensure continuous compliance monitoring throughout the identity lifecycle
- Support governance for both human and non-human identities
- Partner with IAM and security teams to support:
- Least-privilege access models
- Just-in-time access workflows
- Privileged access remediation
- Automate identity lifecycle management and privilege cleanup processes
- Build automation pipelines integrating:
- Monitoring signals
- Directory health metrics
- Policy outcomes
- Support continuous Active Directory health monitoring and automated response mechanisms
- Contribute to self-healing identity governance solutions
- Design reusable automation frameworks and remediation patterns
- Support scalable governance solutions across multiple domains and tenants
- Help standardize enterprise directory services and automation practices
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field
- Strong experience in identity governance, IAM automation, or directory services engineering
- Hands-on experience with:
- Active Directory
- Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD
- Identity lifecycle management
- Enterprise automation frameworks
- Experience building policy-driven remediation workflows and compliance automation
- Strong scripting and automation experience
- Understanding of privileged access management and identity security best practices
- Experience working within large enterprise or highly regulated environments
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills
- Experience implementing self-healing infrastructure or remediation automation
- Familiarity with Zero Standing Privilege or Just-In-Time access models
- Experience supporting multi-domain or multi-tenant environments
- Background working closely with IAM, Security, and Platform Engineering teams
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