CA SiteMinder and Enterprise Directory Administrator (012312 TRIKER)

CA SiteMinder and Enterprise Directory Administrator (012312 TRIKER)

Location: Washington DC

Duration: Long term contract

US Citizen, Green card; TN Visa, EAD or H1 transfers will be preferred .This is not a C2C position,

Background:
The incumbent will work in the Enterprise Identity Management and Security Engineering (IMTES) Team at our client. The Identity and Access Management (IAM) Team in IMTES manages a Web Access Management called Passkey which uses CAs SiteMinder Web Access Management and Oracles Directory Server Enterprise Edition (DSEE) running on Solaris 10 platform.

To utilize the full capacity of our Solaris 10 servers and to reduce the hardware servers, we are in the process of hard partitioning some of our existing Solaris 10 servers.

We are looking for a Systems Engineer who is an expert in the SiteMinder version 6 and version r12 and also Oracle DSEE 11g. This project involves installing Oracle DSEE on the newly hard-partitioned Solaris 10 servers and migrating the existing SiteMinder User stores, Policy stores and Key stores to these newly installed Oracle DSEE.

The project also involves upgrading the SiteMinder Federation environment from the current SiteMinder version 6 to SiteMinder r12. We expect this project to take around 3 to 6 months.

Duties and Accountabilities (general):
Installation, configuration and maintenance of CA SiteMinder Policy Server version 6, version r12 and Sun ONE Directory Server 6.0 and above; running on Solaris 9 or Solaris 10 servers in sandbox, development, QA and production environments.
Troubleshooting of problems, performance tuning and day-to-day administration activities.
Support SiteMinder connectors and session-linkers for SAP, PeopleSoft, Documentum environments and TAI agents.
Support form-based, certificate-based, SecurID-based authentication and Integrated Windows Authentication.
Support SiteMinder Federation services.
Keep track of the Service Packs released by CA and Sun, and applying them as and when necessary.
Install and configure Microsoft ADFS servers. Work closely with a SharePoint project team who are using SiteMinder Federation Services in conjunction with Microsoft ADFS to provide authentication to the SharePoint websites..
Work closely with the web administrators and website owners addressing their problems. If needed, act as a liaison between CA or Sun technical support and the web administrators.
On-call rotation 24X7 for production environment.
Selection Criteria:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or related discipline with at least 4 years of experience in engineering and supporting Information Technology systems in an Enterprise setting.
Minimum three years proven experience in administering CA SiteMinder Policy Server and Sun ONE Directory Server.
In dept knowledge of LDAP directory internals.
Good understanding of web single sign-on with eBusiness environment using IBM HTTP Server, IBM WebSphere, IIS Web Server, Lotus Domino web server.
Good understanding of Microsoft ADFS technology and its integration with SiteMinder Federation Services and SharePoint. Familiarity with Virtual Directory technology.
Proven experience in engineering new identity and access management solutions by integrating products from different providers.
Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
Solid oral and written communication skills; ability to present and explain technical information to end users in a simple way.