Senior Cybersecurity BA - IAM

Synechron
London, England
12 months ago
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Synechron is looking for an experienced Security BA to join a global financial organisation for a long term contract, based x3 days from London or Northern offices.


ROLE:

Cloud-Specific IAM Knowledge (Required):

AWS IAM

  • In-depth understanding of IAM users/groups/roles/policies, permission boundaries, service-linked roles, and AWS Organisations (SCPs)
  • Hands-on experience reviewing existing IAM policies (JSON), detecting overly broad permissions (e.g., “*” or wildcard actions), and recommending fine-grained least-privilege models

Azure Active Directory & Azure RBAC

  • Knowledge of Azure AD concepts: users, groups, applications/service principals, managed identities, Conditional Access policies
  • Familiarity with Azure RBAC roles (built-in and custom) and PIM (Privileged Identity Management) best practices for just-in-time elevation

GCP IAM

  • Understanding of GCP IAM constructs: Principals (Users, Service Accounts, Groups), Roles (primitive, predefined, custom), Service Account Keys, and Organization-level policies
  • Experience reviewing IAM policy bindings (via GCP IAM or Terraform state) and recommending Organisation/Folder/Project-level least-privilege structures

Kubernetes RBAC & Cloud-Native Identities

  • Solid grasp of Kubernetes RBAC entities—Role, Cluster Role, Role Binding, ClusterRoleBinding—and how they map to Kubernetes API groups
  • Awareness of how cloud-provider-managed Kubernetes (EKS, AKS, GKE) integrates with cloud IAM (for example, IAM Authenticator in EKS, GKE Workload Identity, Azure AD/Entra integration).

SaaS Application Identity Management

  • Familiarity with Single Sign-On (SSO) protocols (SAML, OAuth 2.0/OIDC) and identity providers (Azure AD, GCDS, AWS IAM)
  • Understanding of SCIM provisioning, user lifecycle workflows (onboarding/offboarding), and entitlement catalogue management for major SaaS (e.g., Office 365)


EXPERIENCE:

  • 5+ years as a Business Analyst focused on IT security, governance, or IAM
  • Hands-on experience mapping and documenting IAM processes in AWS, Azure, and GCP
  • Practical knowledge of AWS IAM (users/roles/policies), Azure AD & RBAC, and GCP IAM (roles/bindings)
  • Familiarity with Kubernetes RBAC (Role Bindings, ClusterRoleBindings) and how those ties into cloud IAM (EKS, AKS, GKE)
  • Proven track record analysing SaaS-based identity integrations (e.g., SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning)
  • Strong gap-analysis skills, able to pinpoint missing or weak access controls
  • Comfortable using cloud consoles, CLIs (AWS, Azure, GCP and Ali) and reviewing IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation) for IAM-related misconfigurations
  • Excellent stakeholder management; able to facilitate cross-functional workshops and drive consensus.


Long Term Project - ASAP Start - Competitive Rates - London or Northern based (x3 days in office)


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Synechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative Same Difference' is committed to fostering an inclusive culture promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programmes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate.


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