PingFederate IAM Engineer

Primary Responsibilities

• Assess existing PingFederate integrations and identify Entra migration requirements, gaps, risks, and dependencies.
• Develop repeatable migration patterns for SAML, OAuth/OIDC, WebLogic, Spring, Apache, iWeb, and SaaS applications.
• Coordinate with application owners and developers to update, test, and validate integrations.
• Support migration waves through DEV, PRE, and PROD.
• Troubleshoot complex authentication issues, including RSA dependencies, token exchanges, custom SAML, and certificate-based authentication.
• Document current and target architectures, implementation procedures, testing plans, rollback procedures, and lessons learned.

Required Expertise

• PingFederate-to-Entra migrations.
• Microsoft Entra application registrations, claims, attributes, permissions, policies, and directory synchronization.
• SAML, OAuth, OIDC, LDAP, certificate-based authentication, PIV, and YubiKey.
• RSA authentication assessment and replacement planning.
• Large-scale application integration and migration programs.
• Secure testing, privileged identities, administrative YubiKeys, and access approvals.

Desired Working Style

• Begin with low-complexity, repeatable applications and scale migration procedures across application groups.
• Work effectively with infrastructure teams, application owners, developers, AD, Entra, PingFederate, and project management teams.
• Maintain consistency between nonproduction and production environments.
• Communicate technical issues clearly and provide practical recommendations.
• Support a controlled, iterative migration approach while adapting procedures based on lessons learned.

Key Evaluation Criteria

• Successful experience migrating authentication integrations from PingFederate to Microsoft Entra.
• Strong hands-on knowledge of enterprise authentication protocols and Entra administration.
• Experience supporting complex application stacks and authentication dependencies.
• Ability to plan and execute structured migration waves with testing and rollback controls.
• Strong documentation, troubleshooting, coordination, and stakeholder communication skills.