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Software Engineer-Forgerock

Knutsford
5 months ago
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Software Engineer-Forgerock
Hybrid working (2-3 days per week onsite in Knutsford, Cheshire)
6 Month contract initially, good scope for extension
£450 - £500 p/d (Umbrella-PAYE)

One of our blue chip clients are looking for a Software Engineer with good experience of Forgerock, to join the team on a long term programme of work.

Key Skills / Experience:
Good experience in Hands-on ForgeRock developer experience with PingGateway, PingAM, PingIDM and PingDS working with Agile/Scrum model, contributing to Scrum delivery teams.
Coaching and mentoring AVP or VP level.
Solid experience in hands-on coding in at least one of the following: JavaScript, Java.
Open source experience and contribution is a plus.

Primary Skills- PingIdentity ForgeRock stack (PingGateway, PingAM, PingIDM, PingDS), with certification or proof of completion of ForgeRock Deep-Dive 4xx training modules.
Identity and Access Management domain, tools, products, protocols, taxonomy, identity management, authentication, authorization, identity federation, single sign on, OAuth2, OIDC, PKI, PSD2 SCA taxonomy, knowledge based authentication, possession based authentication, JavaScript coding of PingGateway and PingAM scripted routes, proxies and authentication tree nodes.

Secondary Skills- Designing extensible IAM APIs for seamless integration with external and internal applications.
Implementing PingGateway single-sign-on routes, dynamic proxies and filter chains.
Implementing PingAM custom authentication trees, including downstream API integration with threat sensors (ThreatMetrix, BioCatch, etc.), adaptive authentication and step-up authentication. Implementing PingIDM data links between PingDS and external LDAPS, JDBC, SOAP, HTTPS and other data sources. Designing and implementing PingDS schemas with custom managed objects. Scalability and performance optimisation of the ForgeRock OOTB and custom components. Partnering with security, product, engineering and compliance teams to embed identity-first principles to DevSecOps lifecycle."

This is a great opportunity on a long running programme of work.
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