Identity Ops Engineer - Kings Cross, London

Music is Universal It's the passionate and dedicated team at Universal Music who help make us the world's leading music company. From A&R to finance, legal to digital, sales to marketing, Universal Music is the place to grow and develop your career within a truly commercial and innovative business that leads in everything it does.Everyone is welcome to apply for our roles, and we are determined to ensure that no applicant or employee receives less favourable treatment because of gender, race, disability, sexual orientation, religion, belief, age, marital status, background, pregnancy, or caring responsibilities. We also recognise the importance of diversity of thought within our teams and are fully committed to embracing the talents of people with autism, dyslexia, ADHD, and other forms of neurocognitive variation.We will always seek to make appropriate adjustments to recruitment, workplaces, and work processes to be fully inclusive to people with different needs and working styles. If you need us to make any reasonable adjustments for you from application onwards, including alternatives to the online form or to disclose a neurocognitive condition, please email . Job Summary We are UMG, the Universal Music Group. We are the world's leading music company. In everything we do, we are committed to artistry, innovation and entrepreneurship. We own and operate a broad array of businesses engaged in recorded music, music publishing, merchandising, and audiovisual content in more than 60 countries. We identify and develop recording artists and songwriters, and we produce, distribute and promote the most critically acclaimed and commercially successful music to delight and entertain fans around the world.As a key member of the UMG Operations Center, the Identity and Access Management Engineer is responsible for ensuring our Identity Management and Messaging environments, including Active Directory functions at peak efficiency. The position will be a team player working to expand the integration of our identity management solutions with our enterprise applications, support day-to-day administration, reporting, troubleshooting, and operations of our Identity Management environment. In addition to having strong technical skills, you must be comfortable in effectively communicating with business end users, technical IT teams, business partners, network providers, and business process outsourced vendors, all while being sensitive to a wide diversity of cultural and technical backgrounds in a global business environment. Job Functions Utilize best practices to ensure that solutions protect information resources against unauthorized use, inappropriate degrees of access, disclosure, damage and/or loss. Troubleshoots and resolves issues related to identities, systems, access, accounts, authentication, authorization, entitlements, and permissions. ITIL-based operational support and acts as a technical resource for the Active Directory infrastructure, including incident, change, and problem management. Provides support of on premise and cloud-based equipment and configuration including but not limited to Domain Controllers, SaaS applications such as Azure Active Directory, M365, Duo, CyberArk, YubiKey, Microsoft Identity Management, Splunk, and Active Roles servers. Complete the key metric reporting and analysis for the Identity Management environment as required. Work to ensure audit tasks related to Identity Management are completed on time, with participation of appropriate parties. Participate in security incident response teams as needed. Utilize industry best practices for appropriate standards, processes, procedures, tools, and documentation. Ensure the maintenance, patching, operating, and monitoring of IAM systems is in place and completed on schedule. Participate in on-call rotation, and as such, work outside of standard business hours will occasionally be required. Participate in developing automation to reduce the time spent on routine tasks. This position will be shift-based. Job Requirements Essential: Solid technical skills in the Identity Management space, including Active Directory and Entra ID. Minimum of five years directly related experience in Identity & Access Management (IAM). A strong ability for troubleshooting and problem analysis is required, along with the ability to clearly communicate the results of problem analysis to business stakeholders, IT support teams, and network providers to quickly and effectively resolve operational issues. Experience troubleshooting and solving issues related to identities, systems, access, accounts, authentication, authorization, entitlements, and permissions. Hands on experience of Active Directory operation and support including Active Directory Infrastructure components (FSMO roles), delegated administration, group policies, OU admin & Site replication, ADFS, Exchange operation and support including OWA, SMTP services, and routing / costing. Customer service driven/focused with a proactive and positive can-do approach. Demonstrates commitment to organization's policy framework and practices continuous improvement. Hands-on experience and skills with systems such as M365 and ServiceNow are required. Experience with ServiceNow orchestration into Active Directory, M365, Zoom, Slack, Box, or Teams is a plus. Demonstrated current work experience supporting integrated IAM solutions such as Entra ID, Active Roles, Duo, PKI, and CyberArk. Demonstrated organizational skills, attention to detail and ability to work both independently and as part of a team. Solid written, oral, and interpersonal communications skills. Knowledge of Systems Reliability Engineering principles, automation, and AIDesirable: Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Engineering, closely related field or comparable education and experience. Understanding of Microsoft Teams group/system policies, survivable branch appliances, unified messaging, and federation Experience configuring and managing IT systems with technologies such as Java, JavaScript, XML, SOAP, JSON/REST, SQL, RDBMS, Linux, Windows, and databases IT Certifications including MCSE Certification specialization in Identity Management, Certified Access Management Specialist (CAMS), and ITIL Foundations certifications desired International experience beneficial; multiple language skills a plusJust So You Know The company presents this job description as a guide to the major areas and duties for which the jobholder is accountable. However, the business operates in an environment that demands change and the jobholder's specific responsibilities and activities will vary and develop. Therefore, the job description should be seen as indicative and not as a permanent, definitive, and exhaustive statement. Job Category: