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Job Description:

Senior Identity & Access Management (IAM) Engineer

Location: McLean, VA or Dallas, TX or Memphis, TN

Schedule: Hybrid, 2–3 days onsite per week

Employment Type: Contract with potential to extend/convert to a permanent employee

Pay: $70-$75 an hour on W2

We’re seeking a Senior IAM Engineer with deep hands-on identity engineering experience to support an enterprise environment focused on both traditional IAM and emerging non-human/agentic identity management.

This is not a standard SailPoint administrator role. We’re looking for someone who can engineer, integrate, automate, and troubleshoot identity solutions supporting AI agents, service accounts, machine identities, service principals, OAuth clients, and workload identities.

Interested?

Please send your updated resume directly to Julissa Rowell at [email removed] to apply.

Key Responsibilities

• Engineer and support IAM solutions across SailPoint, Ping Identity, Microsoft Entra, and Active Directory
• Implement identity controls for AI agents and other non-human identities
• Build and maintain IAM integrations, APIs, connectors, scripts, and automation
• Support authentication, authorization, federation, provisioning, and identity lifecycle management
• Integrate IAM capabilities with cloud platforms, applications, API/MCP gateways, secrets platforms, and monitoring tools
• Support identity data integrations using SQL, ETL/data pipelines, logging, and reconciliation
• Troubleshoot complex identity, authentication, application, cloud, network, and data issues
• Build monitoring and operational analytics using Datadog and Splunk
• Create and maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and engineering standards

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of IAM, identity engineering, platform engineering, or identity integration experience
• Strong hands-on experience with SailPoint and/or Ping Identity
• Experience supporting non-human identities, such as service accounts, machine accounts, service principals, OAuth clients, workload identities, or AI agents
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorization, federation, provisioning, and identity lifecycle management
• Experience building APIs, connectors, scripts, integrations, and automation
• Experience with enterprise IAM platforms such as SailPoint IdentityIQ, PingFederate, PingDirectory, Microsoft Entra, and Active Directory
• Strong troubleshooting and production support experience

Nice to Have

• SailPoint Identity Security Cloud / Agentic Fabric
• Ping Agent IAM Core / PingAuthorize
• Entro
• API or MCP gateway integrations
• HashiCorp Vault or OneIdentity Safeguard
• SQL and identity data warehouse/ETL experience
• Datadog and Splunk
• CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automated testing, or Git
• SailPoint, Ping Identity, Microsoft, cloud, or security certifications

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law.

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Employee Type: Contract

Location: Denver, CO, US

Job Type:

Date Posted: October 28, 2026

Pay Range: $70 - $75 per hour