On-siteFull Time

Salary

$70 / hour

Location

Richmond, ON

Posted

Jul 9, 2026

Role overview

Identity Access Management Consultant (Junior) – 2 Positions

Job Summary

We are seeking two Junior Identity Access Management (IAM) Consultants to support the Government of Ontario Public Key Infrastructure (GO-PKI) environment. The consultants will be responsible for the administration, support, monitoring, maintenance, modernization, disaster recovery, and integration of enterprise Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions. This role requires experience supporting large-scale PKI and IAM environments, providing production support, and working with enterprise security technologies.

Responsibilities

GO-PKI Administration & Support

  • Support GO-PKI Development, User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Production environments.
  • Upgrade Entrust Certificate Authority from version 8.2.40 to Entrust CA v10 in preparation for migration to Entrust Managed Cloud Services.
  • Configure and maintain Hardware Security Modules (HSMs).
  • Implement Disaster Recovery (DR) solutions for Entrust and Microsoft ADCS Certificate Authorities.
  • Migrate Atos DirX to Oracle Unified Directory (OUD).
  • Perform Proof of Concepts (POCs) for Entrust Managed Cloud Services.
  • Monitor the health, performance, and availability of GO-PKI environments.
  • Perform application startup, shutdown, maintenance, patching, certificate renewals, backups, and recovery.
  • Troubleshoot, analyze, and resolve production incidents and system issues.
  • Assess impacts of infrastructure and application changes.
  • Work with vendors for product support and issue resolution.
  • Develop and maintain operational documentation.

Production Support

  • Provide 24x7 on-call support for production environments and scheduled support for non-production environments.
  • Participate in Incident Management, Problem Management, Change Management, and Release Management activities.
  • Provide Tier-2 and Tier-3 application support.
  • Support networking infrastructure including:
  • Load Balancers
  • Firewalls
  • Proxy Servers
  • Gateways
  • Routers

Identity & Access Management Integration

  • Support Ontario Public Service (OPS) and Broader Public Sector (BPS) clients with GO-PKI integration.
  • Analyze technical requirements and design integration solutions.
  • Develop integration processes and implementation plans.
  • Build, test, and deploy IAM integration solutions.
  • Troubleshoot integration issues.
  • Develop automation scripts, utilities, reports, and documentation.

Operational Improvements

  • Develop and implement operational support tools.
  • Evaluate and recommend new technologies and monitoring solutions.
  • Develop automation scripts, reports, queries, and procedures.
  • Document maintenance and operational procedures.

Disaster Recovery & System Management

  • Assist with Disaster Recovery planning, implementation, and testing.
  • Define and document system management processes.
  • Configure monitoring, alerts, thresholds, and event management.
  • Work with infrastructure hosting teams to implement operational procedures.

Knowledge Transfer

  • Prepare technical documentation and operational runbooks.
  • Develop knowledge transfer plans.
  • Mentor OPS staff and transfer operational knowledge.
  • Support transition of sustainment activities to internal government resources.

Required Skills & Experience

Identity & Access Management

  • 10+ years of experience supporting Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Identity and Access Management systems.
  • Minimum 4 years supporting IAM implementations with over 10,000 registered users.
  • Extensive experience administering enterprise IAM production environments.

PKI & Security Technologies

Experience with:

  • Entrust PKI Suite
  • Entrust Security Manager
  • Security Manager Proxy
  • Admin Services
  • Automated Enrolment Services (AES)
  • Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
  • Public Key Management Infrastructure (PMI)
  • SSL Certificates
  • Hardware Security Modules (HSM)

Identity Management Technologies

Experience with:

  • Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)
  • Oracle Unified Directory (OUD)
  • LDAP
  • Atos Dir.X
  • Apache Directory Studio
  • LDAP CLI Tools

Middleware & Web Technologies

Experience supporting:

  • Oracle WebLogic
  • IIS
  • Apache HTTP Server
  • IBM Web Server
  • NGINX

Databases

  • Oracle Database 11g and later
  • SQL

Operating Systems

Experience administering:

  • Windows
  • Linux
  • Solaris
  • AIX

IT Service Management

Strong knowledge of ITIL processes including:

  • Incident Management
  • Problem Management
  • Change Management
  • Release Management
  • Service Level Management
  • Capacity Management

Testing & Automation

Experience with one or more of:

  • Team Foundation Server (TFS)
  • Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)
  • Robot Framework
  • GOSS
  • SikuliX

Soft Skills

  • Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
  • Experience preparing technical documentation.
  • Ability to work effectively with clients, infrastructure teams, and vendors.
  • Knowledge transfer and mentoring experience.

Mandatory Qualifications

  • 10+ years supporting enterprise Identity & Access Management (IAM) systems.
  • 10+ years designing, deploying, implementing, and supporting enterprise IAM applications.
  • Minimum 4 years of hands-on experience with Entrust PKI Suite.
  • Experience supporting IAM environments with 10,000+ registered users.
  • Strong experience with:
  • Entrust PKI Suite
  • Oracle Identity Manager (OIM)
  • LDAP technologies
  • Oracle WebLogic
  • IIS
  • Apache HTTP Server
  • IBM Web Server
  • NGINX
  • Oracle Database
  • SQL
  • Windows, Linux, Solaris, and AIX

Experience with ITIL processes and enterprise production support.
Strong experience in troubleshooting, incident management, and release management.

Work Environment

  • Onsite: 5 days per week.
  • On-call Support: 24x7 production support and scheduled non-production support.
  • Work in a large-scale Government of Ontario enterprise Identity & Access Management environment supporting mission-critical Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) services.

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