PING Architect

We are seeking a highly experienced Senior CIAM Architect with deep expertise in Ping Identity technologies to lead the design, engineering, integration, and support of enterprise-scale customer identity and access management platforms. This role requires strong hands-on experience across federation, authentication, directory services, security, PKI, infrastructure, and automation, with the ability to drive architecture decisions and resolve complex production issues in high-scale environments. Candidate must have hands-on experience with: 15+ years of experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM) / Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM).8+ years of strong hands-on experience with Ping Identity product suite, especially PingFederate, PingDirectory, PingAccess, and PingOne.Proven experience designing and supporting enterprise-scale customer authentication platforms; experience with 10M+ user environments is strongly preferred.Strong expertise in authentication and federation standards including SAML 2.0, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), and JWT technologies.Deep hands-on expertise in PingFederate administration, SSO integrations, token exchange, authentication policies, selectors, adapters, and OAuth/OIDC troubleshooting.Experience with PingDirectory administration, LDAP integrations, directory operations, replication, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.Good understanding of PingAccess for application access control, policy enforcement, and secure application integration.Strong hands-on experience with SSL/TLS certificates, certificate renewals, keystore and truststore management, JKS/PKCS12 handling, CSR generation, CA chains, and mutual TLS.Solid knowledge of Linux administration, networking fundamentals, DNS, load balancers, reverse proxies, and firewall concepts.Experience working in cloud environments, preferably AWS.Hands-on exposure to CI/CD pipelines, Git, Jenkins, Terraform, and monitoring or observability tooling.Strong troubleshooting skills across federation, OAuth, token validation, LDAP connectivity, directory replication, certificate chain issues, latency, routing, and production incidents.Preferred Qualifications Strong ownership and leadership in driving critical identity platform initiatives.Ability to translate business and security requirements into robust CIAM architecture and engineering solutions.Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills for high-severity production incidents.Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to work across technical and business stakeholders.Ability to operate effectively in fast-paced, high-availability production environments.Preferred Certifications

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