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# Senior IAM Engineer in San Diego

- **Company:** Energy Jobline
- **Location:** San Diego, CA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JIRA, Identity and Access Management, OAuth, OpenID, Ping (Networking Utility), Scrum Methodology, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Single Sign-On, Pingfederate
- **Published:** October 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.energyjobline.com/job/senior-iam-engineer-san-diego-31827804

## About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior IAM Engineer with deep expertise in Ping solutions and enterprise authentication technologies. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience designing, implementing, and supporting large-scale and Access Management (IAM) environments, with a strong focus on Single Sign-On (SSO), federation, authentication services, and application onboarding., Candidate MUST be able to work well with internal and external customers to gather requirements, help them understand what we'll need in order to onboard, and work with Product Management and Scrum Master on status updates and creation of user stories in Jira backlog., Deep proficiency in Ping's Engine platform (features, functionality, integration). PingFederate, PingAccess, PingDirectory, PingOne, PingID

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Strong expertise in IDP protocols: SSO, SAML, OIDC, JIT, OAuth, SCIM (understanding appropriate use cases).

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Ability to interpret technical specifications and communicate effectively with technical and non-technical audiences., * Strong attention to detail in requirements gathering and solution validation., * Excellent communication skills - interpersonal, oral, written, and documentation - with strong customer-facing presence for stakeholder presentations and discussions, * Strong organizational skills, including the ability to adapt to shifting priorities and meet frequent deadlines, * Highly resourceful, collaborative team player with a process-driven approach to security delivery - able to work independently with initiative and a sense of urgency

## Description

Provide daily updates to the core team on progress, roadblocks and items on roadmap.


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