Identity Management Developer (CEMI)
Cornell University20 days ago
Ithaca, NY, USASenior
Base Salary
$88k - $103k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, implement, operate, and improve enterprise authentication, authorization, directory, and identity management services.
- Provide technical leadership for identity applications, middleware, and integrations in a distributed computing environment.
- Develop applications using scripting or programming languages and support ReactJS and/or Ruby on Rails applications.
- Administer Linux systems and troubleshoot mission-critical production systems, including incident response and outages.
- Write technical design documentation, conduct code reviews, and use version control systems.
- Translate user and business needs into functional requirements and technical specifications.
- Communicate identity management capabilities, processes, and technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
- Identify and implement automation and architectural improvements that enhance reliability, security, and efficiency.
- Collaborate with IT security, infrastructure, application teams, vendors, peer institutions, and campus partners.
- Support service levels, operational objectives, audits, compliance efforts, and identity security improvements.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree with 3–5 years of relevant experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Demonstrated technical support and application or middleware development experience in a distributed, team-focused computing environment.
- Expertise with one or more of Java, Perl, Python, ReactJS, Ruby, or PHP.
- Approximately one year or more of professional experience developing ReactJS applications and/or Ruby on Rails.
- Required Linux system administration experience; Windows experience is preferred.
- Working to advanced knowledge of identity and access management technologies including directory services, virtual directories, SAML2, OAuth2, LDAP, and Active Directory authorization technologies.
- Experience writing technical design documentation, conducting code reviews, and using Git or other version control systems.
- Experience supporting and managing mission-critical production systems, including troubleshooting and incident response.
- Ability to translate business needs into technical specifications and explain complex identity concepts clearly to non-technical stakeholders.
- Preferred experience in higher education, research, complex enterprise environments, cloud identity platforms, identity lifecycle management, access governance, zero-trust architectures, enterprise application integration, cross-functional initiatives, audits, compliance, DevOps, CI/CD, and infrastructure-as-code.
Benefits
- Two-year term appointment that may be ended or extended based on organizational needs, funding, and performance.
- Remote work anywhere within the United States, with periodic travel to Cornell’s Ithaca, New York campus and possible after-hours availability when required.
- No relocation assistance is provided, and no visa sponsorship of any kind is available.
- Comprehensive health care options, retirement contributions, wellness programs, and employee discounts.
- Three weeks of vacation, health and personal leave, 13 holidays, a winter break from December 25 through January 1, and two floating holidays.
- Tuition-free Extramural Study and Employee Degree Program, external education tuition aid, and Cornell Children’s Tuition Assistance Program.
About Cornell University
Weill Cornell Medicine is Cornell University’s academic medical center in New York City, founded in 1898 and organized as a nonprofit. It delivers clinical care (in partnership with NewYork-Presbyterian), trains physicians and scientists through its medical and graduate schools, and conducts biomedical research. Its activities are funded by clinical services, tuition, philanthropy, and research grants, and it operates global programs, including a campus in Qatar awarding Cornell medical degrees.