Active Directory Consultant

Requirements

• 84 months of experience with Active Directory Authentication and Identity Management solutions.
• 84 months experience migrating applications from Active Directory to federated services like OAM Federation.
• 84 months experience in troubleshooting and debugging skills for identity-related integration issues across platforms
• 84 months experience in working with authentication protocols: SAML, OAuth, and OpenID Connect
• 84 months experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams including network, application, and Oracle support teams.

Responsibilities
1. Research and Analysis:
o Work with Client colleges' IT and application teams to inventory and assess current AD-integrated applications.
o Analyze application use cases and document the authentication mechanisms in use.
2. Migration Planning:
o Design a migration plan for each application and integration using AD to shift authentication mechanisms to OAM Federation, including SAML or other federated services.
o Collaborate with application vendors and owners to define detailed requirements for migration.
o Ensure that best practices are applied in shifting from AD-based authentication to federated Identity Providers (IDPs).
3. Implementation and Integration:
o Configure and migrate selected applications from on-premises Active Directory authentication to Oracle Access Manager Federation services.
o Thoroughly test the application migrations in a test environment before production deployment.
o Troubleshoot any issues arising during migration, including federation (SAML) issues and cross-platform authentication challenges.
4. Documentation and Knowledge Transfer:
o Document all migration procedures, challenges, and resolutions.
o Provide knowledge transfer to Client staff through detailed documentation and live demonstrations.
5. Collaboration and Support:
o Work closely with Client teams, including networking, application, and support teams, to troubleshoot issues and ensure smooth integration.
Key responsibilities:
• Work with vendors and application owners (At colleges) to define the requirements for each application for SSO integrations using OAM Federation Services such as SAML.
• Setup and configure applications in the test environments. Prepare the OAM environment to test various use cases based on the requirements and discussions with various stakeholders.
• Integrate SAML applications in production OAM andThoroughly test the applications' integrations in end-to-end flow.
• Work with vendors and application owners to confirm applications are functioning as expected.
• Thoroughly document all details and tasks involved with various integrations, developing solutions in OAM.
• Work closely with application teams on integrating various flavors of applications for SSO. Should be able to independently troubleshoot and fix issues related to Application integrations and/or product related issues.
• Configure and customize SSO solution in high availability mode using Oracle Access Management to implement various features such as Federation/SAML, OAuth, Open ID Connect, Multi-Factor Authentication besides current solution setup only for Header Based application integrations.
• Maintain the OAM/SSO environments with regular patching.
• Configure to leverage API usage in all Oracle IAM components for various use cases. • Configure to leverage API usage in all Oracle IAM components including Oracle Microservices - Oracle Advanced Authentication (OAA) and Oracle Adaptive Risk Management (OARM) for various use cases.
• Work closely with other teams to identify and solve issues.
• Other duties as assigned