Senior Access Control Specialist

Description

Summary: This senior role supports identity and access management, focusing on securing access across hybrid environments using Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Microsoft 365, and Azure. Highlights: 1. Lead enterprise identity and access control strategy and governance. 2. Administer user accounts, groups, and security roles across various platforms. 3. Conduct access audits and certifications for compliance. Apply Now Description The Access Control Specialist - Senior serves as the senior identity and access management authority supporting the SEC ISS contract and SEC OIT enterprise infrastructure. This role is responsible for securing and governing access across hybrid environments, with primary focus on Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, Microsoft 365 GCC services, and Azure resources. The position leads implemention and enforcement of RBAC, conditional access, MFA, and identity governance controls aligned with SEC security requirements and zero-trust objectives in the PWS. The role also ensures compliant, reliable access for collaborion and enterprise broadcast capabilities in Microsoft Teams.    PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES    -Identity and Access Governance  - Serve as the senior technical lead for enterprise identity and access control stregy, standards, and opering procedures.  - Develop and enforce IAM policies for user lifecycle management, role assignment, and privileged access.  - Define and maintain RBAC models, access approval workflows, and least-privilege controls across enterprise plforms.  - Partner with cybersecurity and infrastructure leadership to reduce identity risk and strengthen control enforcement.  - May require participion in on-call or surge support activities depending on operional needs.    Access Administrion and Security Enforcement  - Administer user accounts, groups, permissions, and security roles across Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft 365, and Azure.  - Configure and manage conditional access policies, multifactor authenticion (MFA), privileged identity controls, and identity governance workflows.  - Support joiner/mover/leaver processes, including provisioning, deprovisioning, access reviews, and entitlement management for workforce and service accounts.  - Integre access control requirements with enterprise applicions and collaborion plforms, including Teams and SharePoint.    Compliance, Audit, and Reporting  - Conduct periodic access audits and certificion reviews to valide policy compliance and control effectiveness.  - Produce audit-ready reports, evidence, and metrics to support organizional and regulory compliance requirements.  - Track and remedie identity and access findings, including policy exceptions and control gaps.  - Maintain documention and SOPs for IAM processes, technical baselines, and change history.    Collaborion Plform and Broadcast Access Support  - Ensure secure permissions and role assignments for Microsoft Teams conferencing, live events, and enterprise broadcasts.  - Troubleshoot access-reled issues impacting Teams meetings, live streaming, and collaborion workloads.  - Coordine with operions, service delivery, and security teams to resolve escaled IAM incidents.  - Support continuous service improvement through automion and standardized IAM opering practices.    REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS    -This position is restricted to U.S. citizens only. Applicants must not hold dual citizenship with any other country to be eligible for work under this contract -The Ability to obtain and maintain SEC Public Trust (or higher if required).  -Bachelors degree and 4+ years of experience in access control and identity management within enterprise IT environments.  - Extensive hands-on experience administering Microsoft Entra ID (formerly Azure Active Directory), including user provisioning, RBAC, conditional access policies, and identity governance.  - Strong experience managing identity and access across Windows Server, Active Directory, Microsoft 365 services, and Azure resources.  - Experience supporting compliance audits and secure access controls for Microsoft Teams live events and enterprise broadcasts.    Technical Skills:  - Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), Entra ID Governance, and enterprise identity lifecycle management  - Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), least-privilege enforcement, and access certificion  - Conditional Access, MFA, and identity governance policy administrion  - Windows Server and Active Directory administrion  - Microsoft 365 services, including Teams and SharePoint access controls  - Azure resource access management and security role administrion  - IAM compliance auditing, reporting, and control documention  - Troubleshooting access and authenticion issues in enterprise collaborion plforms    PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS  - Experience supporting IAM operions in a federal IT environment with FISMA-driven audit and control requirements.  - Experience implementing zero-trust identity controls and modern authenticion across hybrid enterprise environments.  - Advanced experience with privileged identity management, access reviews, and entitlement management scale.  - Experience automing IAM workflows using scripting and enterprise automion tools.  - Experience implementing federed identity and single sign-on integrions for enterprise applicions.  - Microsoft Certified: Identity and Access Administror Associe (SC-300)  - Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100)  - CISSP    If you're looking for comfort, keep scrolling. 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