Senior IAM Resiliency Engineer (Global Security)
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WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?
As the Senior IAM Resiliency Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring that IAM systems, services, and applications are reliable, available, and recoverable in the face of failures within RBC and its subsidiaries. The ideal candidate is passionate about authentication, security, has experience building and supporting large scale enterprise software, and has direct experience in authentication, identity, PAM, security, and in building complex rule-based systems for authorization.
Job Description
WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?
As the Senior IAM Resiliency Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring that IAM systems, services, and applications are reliable, available, and recoverable in the face of failures within RBC and its subsidiaries. The ideal candidate is passionate about authentication, security, has experience building and supporting large scale enterprise software, and has direct experience in authentication, identity, PAM, security, and in building complex rule-based systems for authorization.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
- Design and implement IAM resiliency strategies to ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance across critical identity systems for authentications, authorization, identity lifecycle and privileged access management.
- Lead incident response and recovery efforts for IAM outages or degradations, conducting root cause analysis and implementing long-term remediation and prevention measures.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security and applications teams to integrate IAM services into broader business continuity and disaster recovery plans, ensuring alignment with enterprise resilience goals.
- Develop and maintain automated monitoring and alerting for IAM services for proactively detect and respond to performance and availability issues.
- Evaluate and test failover, backup, and recovery procedures for IAM components, conducting regular tabletop exercises and simulations to validate readiness.
- Contribute to the hardening and redundancy of IAM architectures, identifying single points of failure and driving the adoption of scalable, multi-region, or hybrid IAM solutions.
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?
Must have
- 4-7 years of deep expertise in IAM platforms – proven experience with enterprise-grade identity systems (e.g., federated SSO, MFA, directory services, PAM, IGA), with hands-on knowledge leading tools such as Okta, Entra ID, CyberArk, SailPoint, HashiCorp, RSA, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to design, test, and maintain high-availability and failover solutions for IAM services in hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
- In-depth understanding of IAM’s role in the enterprise security architecture, with the ability to identify and mitigate availability and security risks.
- Experience automating monitoring, backups, and recovery procedures using tools like PowerShell, Python, or Terraform to support operational resilience.
- Skilled in leading incident management for IAM outages, including diagnostics, RCA documentation, and implementation of long-term fixes.
- Ability to partner with security, infrastructure, cloud, and compliance teams to align IAM resiliency with broader IT and business continuity objectives.
Nice-to-have :
- Experience in developing and tuning highly scalable systems
- Strategic thinker with excellent interpersonal skills to work across functions and businesses
What’s in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- A world-class training program in financial services
- Flexible work/life balance options
- Opportunities to do challenging work
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Job Skills
Agile Working, Application Security, Automation Tools, Business Continuity, Cloud Platform, Cyber Security Management, Decision Making, Enterprise Security Architecture, High Reliability, Hybrid Systems, Identity Access Management (IAM), Information Security Management, Information Technology Security, Infrastructure Penetration Testing, Interpersonal Communication, IT Security Architecture, IT Systems Integration, Microsoft PowerShell, Python (Programming Language), Security Information and Event Management (SIEM), Security Standards, Security Tools, Strategic Thinking, Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Terraform
Additional Job Details
Address:
330 FRONT ST W:TORONTO
City:
Toronto
Country:
Canada
Work hours/week:
37.5
Employment Type:
Full time
Platform:
TECHNOLOGY AND OPERATIONS
Job Type:
Regular
Pay Type:
Salaried
Posted Date:
Application Deadline:
Note : Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above
I nclusion and Equal Opportunity Employment
At RBC, we believe an inclusive workplace that has diverse perspectives is core to our continued growth as one of the largest and most successful banks in the world. Maintaining a workplace where our employees feel supported to perform at their best, effectively collaborate, drive innovation, and grow professionally helps to bring our Purpose to life and create value for our clients and communities. RBC strives to deliver this through policies and programs intended to foster a workplace based on respect, belonging and opportunity for all.
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Not Applicable
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Employment type
Full-time
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Job function
Information Technology
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Industries
Banking and Financial Services
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Company
RBC
Location
Toronto
Country
Canada
Salary
125.000
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