Are you an Identity & Access Management (IAM) expert with deep experience in PKI solutions? Our client seeks an Applications Architect with 10+ years of experience sustaining and deploying large-scale identity and access management (IAM) solutions, particularly those using Entrust PKI Suite, Sun Identity Manager, and LDAP tools. This role involves ensuring the stability, security, and efficiency of IAM environments supporting 10,000+ users.
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Advantages
✅ Enterprise-Scale IAM Implementation – Manage Entrust PKI Suite, Sun IDM, LDAP, and Oracle IAM systems.
✅ Mission-Critical Infrastructure – Ensure secure authentication, encryption, and identity management.
✅ Hybrid Work Model – Work in a dynamic environment with flexibility.
✅ Long-Term Stability – Potential for contract extension and growth in public sector IT security.
Responsibilities
1. Support of the GO-PKI environments for development, User Acceptance testing and Production, including:
- Monitoring the health, performance and status of service components (e.g., technology stack);
- Starting and stopping service components;
- Backing up or recovering service components (e.g., associated data or configurations);
- Tuning service components;
- Maintaining service components (e.g., applying patches, renewing certificates or licenses);
- Triaging, analyzing, and resolving incidents related to GO-PKI;
- Identifying, analyzing, and resolving problems related to GO-PKI - Entrust PKI Suite (e.g., Security Manager v8.x, Security Manager Proxy, Admin Services, Automated Enrolments Services (AES), SSL);
- Assessing the impacts of changes on GO-PKI, including changes raised by clients and service providers (e.g., ITS, CompuCom, Telus);
- Documenting maintenance and support requirements and procedures;
- Engage and work with product vendors if extended support is required.
2. Provide on-call support for the GO-PKI production environments 24x7, and on-call support for the GO-PKI non-production environments (e.g., pre-production) on a 5 x 10 basis not limited to:
- Participate in incident management as an incident coordinator, incident analyst, or tier-2/tier-3 SME;
- Participate in change management as a change coordinator, change analyst or application SME;
- Assist and provide production support to GO-PKI application on the following Networking infrastructure components and technologies: Load Balancers, Firewalls, Proxy Servers, Gateways, Routers etc;
- Provide application support and expertise to applications and infrastructure based on the following technology products: Entrust PKI Suite, Sun Identity Manager (Sun IDM), LDAP Tools (such as Atos DirX, Apache Dir Studio/CLI Commands), Windows Internet Information Server (IIS), Apache HTTPD/IBM Web Server/NGINX, SQL, Oracle database 11g (and later), Solaris, Windows, AIX and Linux Operating Systems.
3. Support clients across the OPS and BPS to integrate their applications with GO-PKI for identity and access management by:
- Analyzing clients’ technical requirements, and designing approaches/solutions;
- Describing patterns related to integration approaches/solutions;
- Developing processes and plans that support the application of patterns;
- Constructing, testing, and deploying solutions;
- Analyzing and resolving problems encountered during integration;
- Developing utilities, scripts, applets, and reports to facilitate and automate the integration experience;
- Documenting approaches/solutions.
4. Improve the support posture of the GO-PKI team by:
- Developing requirements for support tools;
- Evaluating and recommending tools;
- Installing and configuring tools;
- Developing, testing, and deploying programmatic constructs (e.g., scripts, queries, views, reports, procedures or others);
- Document maintenance and support requirements and procedures.
5. Assist with implementing disaster recovery solution (DR) for the future production of GO-PKI applications including the definition and the documentation of processes and operational DR procedures.
6. Define, document, configure, implement and testing of GO-PKI system management based on standard practices, including:
- System management processes and tasks;
- System events, events metrics, thresholds and alerts;
- System monitoring and alerting;
- Working with infrastructure-hosting partner organizations to implement system management processes and procedures;
- Document-defined system management process and procedures.
7. Foster a team culture of excellence and innovation, including:
- Developing or informing the development of role descriptions for the sustainment of GO-PKI, especially related to the technical support function;
- Developing plans for the knowledge and skills transfer to OPS employees, including activities or tests to demonstrate the successful transfer of knowledge and attainment of required skills. OPS employees include IT Source People Placement Service;
- Developing plans for the transition of sustainment functions to OPS employees;
- Transferring knowledge to OPS employees.
Qualifications
Must Haves:
- 10+ years' experience sustaining (e.g. administration, operations, support, patching, monitoring, starting/stopping) COTS-based identity and access management systems. At least 4 years of experience must be related to implementations with over 10,000 registered users;
- 10+ years' experience designing, developing, deploying, and sustaining large application implementations based on the following technology products: Entrust PKI Suite, Sun Identity Manager (Sun IDM), LDAP Tools (such as Atos DirX, Apache Dir Studio/CLI Commands), Windows Internet Information Server (IIS), Apache HTTPD/IBM Web Server/NGINX, Oracle Web Logic, SQL, Oracle database 11g (and later), Solaris, Windows, AIX and Linux;
- At least 4 years of experience must be related to Entrust PKI Suite (e.g. Security Manager v8.x, Security Manager Proxy, Admin Services, Automated Enrolments Services (AES));
- 10+ years' experience with quality control and assurance methodologies and practices as applied to the implementation of applications with over 10,000 Demonstrated experience in acting as a central point of contact for all incidents and problems in the day-to-day.
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an Applications Architect with deep IAM expertise to support large-scale identity and authentication solutions. If you have experience with PKI, IAM security, and enterprise authentication frameworks, apply today!
Also, remember that updating your profile on Randstad.ca helps us find you faster when we have roles that match your skills! So even if this role isn’t for you, please update your profile so we can find you!
We look forward to supporting you in your job search! Good luck!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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Are you an Identity & Access Management (IAM) expert with deep experience in PKI solutions? Our client seeks an Applications Architect with 10+ years of experience sustaining and deploying large-scale identity and access management (IAM) solutions, particularly those using Entrust PKI Suite, Sun Identity Manager, and LDAP tools. This role involves ensuring the stability, security, and efficiency of IAM environments supporting 10,000+ users.
Advantages
✅ Enterprise-Scale IAM Implementation – Manage Entrust PKI Suite, Sun IDM, LDAP, and Oracle IAM systems.
✅ Mission-Critical Infrastructure – Ensure secure authentication, encryption, and identity management.
✅ Hybrid Work Model – Work in a dynamic environment with flexibility.
✅ Long-Term Stability – Potential for contract extension and growth in public sector IT security.
Responsibilities
1. Support of the GO-PKI environments for development, User Acceptance testing and Production, including:
- Monitoring the health, performance and status of service components (e.g., technology stack);
- Starting and stopping service components;
- Backing up or recovering service components (e.g., associated data or configurations);
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- Tuning service components;
- Maintaining service components (e.g., applying patches, renewing certificates or licenses);
- Triaging, analyzing, and resolving incidents related to GO-PKI;
- Identifying, analyzing, and resolving problems related to GO-PKI - Entrust PKI Suite (e.g., Security Manager v8.x, Security Manager Proxy, Admin Services, Automated Enrolments Services (AES), SSL);
- Assessing the impacts of changes on GO-PKI, including changes raised by clients and service providers (e.g., ITS, CompuCom, Telus);
- Documenting maintenance and support requirements and procedures;
- Engage and work with product vendors if extended support is required.
2. Provide on-call support for the GO-PKI production environments 24x7, and on-call support for the GO-PKI non-production environments (e.g., pre-production) on a 5 x 10 basis not limited to:
- Participate in incident management as an incident coordinator, incident analyst, or tier-2/tier-3 SME;
- Participate in change management as a change coordinator, change analyst or application SME;
- Assist and provide production support to GO-PKI application on the following Networking infrastructure components and technologies: Load Balancers, Firewalls, Proxy Servers, Gateways, Routers etc;
- Provide application support and expertise to applications and infrastructure based on the following technology products: Entrust PKI Suite, Sun Identity Manager (Sun IDM), LDAP Tools (such as Atos DirX, Apache Dir Studio/CLI Commands), Windows Internet Information Server (IIS), Apache HTTPD/IBM Web Server/NGINX, SQL, Oracle database 11g (and later), Solaris, Windows, AIX and Linux Operating Systems.
3. Support clients across the OPS and BPS to integrate their applications with GO-PKI for identity and access management by:
- Analyzing clients’ technical requirements, and designing approaches/solutions;
- Describing patterns related to integration approaches/solutions;
- Developing processes and plans that support the application of patterns;
- Constructing, testing, and deploying solutions;
- Analyzing and resolving problems encountered during integration;
- Developing utilities, scripts, applets, and reports to facilitate and automate the integration experience;
- Documenting approaches/solutions.
4. Improve the support posture of the GO-PKI team by:
- Developing requirements for support tools;
- Evaluating and recommending tools;
- Installing and configuring tools;
- Developing, testing, and deploying programmatic constructs (e.g., scripts, queries, views, reports, procedures or others);
- Document maintenance and support requirements and procedures.
5. Assist with implementing disaster recovery solution (DR) for the future production of GO-PKI applications including the definition and the documentation of processes and operational DR procedures.
6. Define, document, configure, implement and testing of GO-PKI system management based on standard practices, including:
- System management processes and tasks;
- System events, events metrics, thresholds and alerts;
- System monitoring and alerting;
- Working with infrastructure-hosting partner organizations to implement system management processes and procedures;
- Document-defined system management process and procedures.
7. Foster a team culture of excellence and innovation, including:
- Developing or informing the development of role descriptions for the sustainment of GO-PKI, especially related to the technical support function;
- Developing plans for the knowledge and skills transfer to OPS employees, including activities or tests to demonstrate the successful transfer of knowledge and attainment of required skills. OPS employees include IT Source People Placement Service;
- Developing plans for the transition of sustainment functions to OPS employees;
- Transferring knowledge to OPS employees.
Qualifications
Must Haves:
- 10+ years' experience sustaining (e.g. administration, operations, support, patching, monitoring, starting/stopping) COTS-based identity and access management systems. At least 4 years of experience must be related to implementations with over 10,000 registered users;
- 10+ years' experience designing, developing, deploying, and sustaining large application implementations based on the following technology products: Entrust PKI Suite, Sun Identity Manager (Sun IDM), LDAP Tools (such as Atos DirX, Apache Dir Studio/CLI Commands), Windows Internet Information Server (IIS), Apache HTTPD/IBM Web Server/NGINX, Oracle Web Logic, SQL, Oracle database 11g (and later), Solaris, Windows, AIX and Linux;
- At least 4 years of experience must be related to Entrust PKI Suite (e.g. Security Manager v8.x, Security Manager Proxy, Admin Services, Automated Enrolments Services (AES));
- 10+ years' experience with quality control and assurance methodologies and practices as applied to the implementation of applications with over 10,000 Demonstrated experience in acting as a central point of contact for all incidents and problems in the day-to-day.
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity for an Applications Architect with deep IAM expertise to support large-scale identity and authentication solutions. If you have experience with PKI, IAM security, and enterprise authentication frameworks, apply today!
Also, remember that updating your profile on Randstad.ca helps us find you faster when we have roles that match your skills! So even if this role isn’t for you, please update your profile so we can find you!
We look forward to supporting you in your job search! Good luck!
Randstad Canada is committed to fostering a workforce reflective of all peoples of Canada. As a result, we are committed to developing and implementing strategies to increase the equity, diversity and inclusion within the workplace by examining our internal policies, practices, and systems throughout the entire lifecycle of our workforce, including its recruitment, retention and advancement for all employees. In addition to our deep commitment to respecting human rights, we are dedicated to positive actions to affect change to ensure everyone has full participation in the workforce free from any barriers, systemic or otherwise, especially equity-seeking groups who are usually underrepresented in Canada's workforce, including those who identify as women or non-binary/gender non-conforming; Indigenous or Aboriginal Peoples; persons with disabilities (visible or invisible) and; members of visible minorities, racialized groups and the LGBTQ2+ community.
Randstad Canada is committed to creating and maintaining an inclusive and accessible workplace for all its candidates and employees by supporting their accessibility and accommodation needs throughout the employment lifecycle. We ask that all job applications please identify any accommodation requirements by sending an email to accessibility@randstad.ca to ensure their ability to fully participate in the interview process.
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