Job Vacancy Lead Specialist Engineer (Identity Automation) - UKHSA - SEO

The Lead Specialist Engineer will work within the Specialist Identity and Access Management Team. The team operates an automation discipline which is managed by a Senior Identity and Access Management Architect.  

The Lead Specialist Engineer will work with the other team members, who between them will work within specified technical specialties and provide technical expertise in the configuration, implementation and automation of relevant technical areas.  

Automation is the cornerstone of all work undertaken by the team, this role will focus heavily on developing and maintaining automated processes that underpin key technologies that are supported by the Identity & Access Management Team; 

• Identity Lifecyle 

• Windows PowerShell  

• Active Directory  

• Azure Active Directory \ Entra ID  

• DNS  

• Group Policy  

• Azure Administration  

• DHCP  

• Microsoft Certification Authority PKI  

• End User operating System security policy  

• SQL  

• Microsoft Defender 

• MBAM  

• Azure DevOps 

The Lead Specialist Engineer will also have experience of administering as many of the above as possible.

Your main responsibilities will include:

• To assist the Senior Security Architect and the Identity and Access Management Team in ensuring that Security and Identity automation services are working, documented and reliable.  

• Administration of user accounts for network access, including creation of accounts, modification of user permissions, and removal of accounts of staff leaving the Agency.  

• Ensuring the provision of support and service to all customers during scheduled hours.  

• Undertake Appropriate system and service Monitoring and Auditing to ensure service state and availability.  

• To maintain awareness of technical developments in Security and Identity Management with a view to providing advice to the Senior Security Architect on suitable technical strategies for UKHSA.  

• To conduct such work as directed by line management consistently with departmental standards and to agreed time scales.  

• To comply with Departmental requirements for staff management activities, including the reporting of all absences and completion of Performance Development processes.

Daily operational duties will include:

• Incident and Request management via ITSM suite. 

• Management and Monitoring of existing IAM automation services, predominately focusing on Microsoft PowerShell and Graph API. 

• Development, Test and Release of additional Automation services following DevOps principals. 

• Maintain Git repositories for IAM services. 

• Ongoing alignment of services to best practices with Cyber Security. 

This is not an exhaustive list.