Senior Directory Services Engineer (Oracle)

The Sherwin-Williams Company - Cleveland, Ohio

The Directory Services group is responsible for overall design, management and support of the SW global Oracle LDAP services including ODSEE, OUD, OID, and OVD.  Ideal candidate will have experience with IDaaS design concepts as well as large-scale, global LDAP solutions including hands-on experience and expertise with the Oracle Directory platform architecture and site design. Duties to include research, implementation, administration pertaining to Oracle directory platforms. 
 
Essential Functions

Strategy & Planning

  • Research, recommend and participate with other administrators, and associated client team(s) in the ongoing evaluation, testing, and selection of Identity systems and solutions.
  • Research, evaluate and document best practices around Directory Services.
  • Participate meaningfully in architecture strategy and planning efforts around Directory Services with direct team members and other teams.
  • Contribute to overall Identity and Directory strategy including single sign on, federation, and integration.
  • Design and architect ODSEE, OID, OVD, and OUD enterprise schema in a highly available environments.

Acquisition & Deployment

  • Participate as assigned in the efforts to integrate and migrate acquired entity users and infrastructure.
  • Manage, optimize and support the ongoing deployment(s) of Identity related systems including, but not limited to, ODSEE, OID, OVD, and OUD.
  • Analyze existing applications from acquired entities to see how they can utilize existing SW Directory Service implementations.
Operational Management
  • Monitor LDAP health using tools such as perfmon and powershell, recommend improvements.
  • Consult with SW application analysts utilizing Directory authentication / authorization services to help setup/test/troubleshoot 3rd party application integration.
  • Provide basic Directory reporting metrics such as authentication, authorization, object totals.
  • Implement, manage and document administrative processes and procedures.
  • Provide escalation point for level 2 and level 3 support requests. 

Incidental Functions

  • Assist with Change Management preparations and implementations.
  • Attend meetings in participation with the team, clients, peers and/or management.
  • Assist with other projects as may be required to contribute to the efficiency and effectiveness of the group.
  • Participate in hiring activities and fulfilling affirmative action obligations and ensuring compliance with the equal employment opportunity policy.
  • Provide 24/7 on-call support as part of shared on-call rotation.
  • Minimal travel required, with potential of some international travel.
  • Working outside the standard office 7.5 hour work day will be required during on-call rotation.

Position Requirements  

Formal Education & Certification
  • Bachelor's Degree or foreign equivalent in related field or equivalent experience.
Knowledge & Experience
  • 5 yrs. IT experience.
  • 5 yrs. advanced troubleshooting skills around LDAP solutions such as ODSEE/OUD/OVD.
  • 5 yrs. experience performing administration/support with LDAP/Authentication/Authorization solutions from vendors .
  • Ability to automate LDAP tasks on demand using bash scripts. 
  • Experience with LDAP architecture in a large (> 450,000 user) environment.
  • Working knowledge with the latest IDaaS concepts and Federated/Claims Identity solutions such as Oracle Identity Federation, F5 Access Policy Manager, Azure Active Directory, Okta, or Ping.  
  • Knowledge of networking concepts such as DNS, Load Balancers, Firewall as it related to Directory and Federated solutions.
  • Experience with the Oracle Identity & Access Management, EBS, WebCenter, and Weblogic platforms.
  • Experience planning and documenting tasks and projects. 
Personal Attributes
  • Strong and comprehensive verbal and written communications.
  • Responsive and alert to new learning opportunities, growth and development of technical, interpersonal and business skills; able to recognize and address areas needing improvement.
  • Motivated and competent to contribute appropriate time and effort to work needing attention.
  • Attentive to detail with focus on accurate and timely results.
  • Organized and able to prioritize tasks, responding effectively to competing needs.
  • Attentive and reactive to customer needs and concerns.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities.
  • Consistently engaged in research related to hardware, software and business solutions.
  • Strong customer service orientation.
  • Able to contribute to team effort and individual achievement.

 

Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, protected veteran status, disability, age, pregnancy, genetic information or any other consideration prohibited by law or contract. VEVRAA Federal Contractor requesting appropriate employment service delivery systems, such as state workforce agencies and local employment delivery systems, to provide priority referrals of protected veterans.

Must be legally authorized to work in country of employment without sponsorship for employment visa status now or in the future. 

Posted: 30+ days ago

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