Senior IAM Resiliency Engineer (Global Security)
Top Benefits
About the role
WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?
As the Senior IAM Resiliency Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring that IAM systems, services, and applications are reliable, available, and recoverable in the face of failures within RBC and its subsidiaries. The ideal candidate is passionate about authentication, security, has experience building and supporting large scale enterprise software, and has direct experience in authentication, identity, PAM, security, and in building complex rule-based systems for authorization.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
- Design and implement IAM resiliency strategies to ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance across critical identity systems for authentications, authorization, identity lifecycle and privileged access management.
- Lead incident response and recovery efforts for IAM outages or degradations, conducting root cause analysis and implementing long-term remediation and prevention measures.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security and applications teams to integrate IAM services into broader business continuity and disaster recovery plans, ensuring alignment with enterprise resilience goals.
- Develop and maintain automated monitoring and alerting for IAM services for proactively detect and respond to performance and availability issues.
- Evaluate and test failover, backup, and recovery procedures for IAM components, conducting regular tabletop exercises and simulations to validate readiness.
- Contribute to the hardening and redundancy of IAM architectures, identifying single points of failure and driving the adoption of scalable, multi-region, or hybrid IAM solutions.
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?
Must have
- 4-7 years of deep expertise in IAM platforms – proven experience with enterprise-grade identity systems (e.g., federated SSO, MFA, directory services, PAM, IGA), with hands-on knowledge leading tools such as Okta, Entra ID, CyberArk, SailPoint, HashiCorp, RSA, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to design, test, and maintain high-availability and failover solutions for IAM services in hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
- In-depth understanding of IAM’s role in the enterprise security architecture, with the ability to identify and mitigate availability and security risks.
- Experience automating monitoring, backups, and recovery procedures using tools like PowerShell, Python, or Terraform to support operational resilience.
- Skilled in leading incident management for IAM outages, including diagnostics, RCA documentation, and implementation of long-term fixes.
- Ability to partner with security, infrastructure, cloud, and compliance teams to align IAM resiliency with broader IT and business continuity objectives.
Nice-to-have :
- Experience in developing and tuning highly scalable systems
- Strategic thinker with excellent interpersonal skills to work across functions and businesses
What’s in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- A world-class training program in financial services
- Flexible work/life balance options
- Opportunities to do challenging work
#LI-POST
#TECHPJ
About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact.
La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais
Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social.
Senior IAM Resiliency Engineer (Global Security)
Top Benefits
About the role
WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?
As the Senior IAM Resiliency Engineer, you will be responsible for ensuring that IAM systems, services, and applications are reliable, available, and recoverable in the face of failures within RBC and its subsidiaries. The ideal candidate is passionate about authentication, security, has experience building and supporting large scale enterprise software, and has direct experience in authentication, identity, PAM, security, and in building complex rule-based systems for authorization.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
- Design and implement IAM resiliency strategies to ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and fault tolerance across critical identity systems for authentications, authorization, identity lifecycle and privileged access management.
- Lead incident response and recovery efforts for IAM outages or degradations, conducting root cause analysis and implementing long-term remediation and prevention measures.
- Collaborate with infrastructure, security and applications teams to integrate IAM services into broader business continuity and disaster recovery plans, ensuring alignment with enterprise resilience goals.
- Develop and maintain automated monitoring and alerting for IAM services for proactively detect and respond to performance and availability issues.
- Evaluate and test failover, backup, and recovery procedures for IAM components, conducting regular tabletop exercises and simulations to validate readiness.
- Contribute to the hardening and redundancy of IAM architectures, identifying single points of failure and driving the adoption of scalable, multi-region, or hybrid IAM solutions.
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED?
Must have
- 4-7 years of deep expertise in IAM platforms – proven experience with enterprise-grade identity systems (e.g., federated SSO, MFA, directory services, PAM, IGA), with hands-on knowledge leading tools such as Okta, Entra ID, CyberArk, SailPoint, HashiCorp, RSA, etc.
- Demonstrated ability to design, test, and maintain high-availability and failover solutions for IAM services in hybrid or multi-cloud environments.
- In-depth understanding of IAM’s role in the enterprise security architecture, with the ability to identify and mitigate availability and security risks.
- Experience automating monitoring, backups, and recovery procedures using tools like PowerShell, Python, or Terraform to support operational resilience.
- Skilled in leading incident management for IAM outages, including diagnostics, RCA documentation, and implementation of long-term fixes.
- Ability to partner with security, infrastructure, cloud, and compliance teams to align IAM resiliency with broader IT and business continuity objectives.
Nice-to-have :
- Experience in developing and tuning highly scalable systems
- Strategic thinker with excellent interpersonal skills to work across functions and businesses
What’s in it for you?
We thrive on the challenge to be our best, progressive thinking to keep growing, and working together to deliver trusted advice to help our clients thrive and communities prosper. We care about each other, reaching our potential, making a difference to our communities, and achieving success that is mutual.
- A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
- Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
- Ability to make a difference and lasting impact
- Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
- A world-class training program in financial services
- Flexible work/life balance options
- Opportunities to do challenging work
#LI-POST
#TECHPJ
About RBC
Royal Bank of Canada is a global financial institution with a purpose-driven, principles-led approach to delivering leading performance. Our success comes from the 94,000+ employees who leverage their imaginations and insights to bring our vision, values and strategy to life so we can help our clients thrive and communities prosper. As Canada's biggest bank and one of the largest in the world, based on market capitalization, we have a diversified business model with a focus on innovation and providing exceptional experiences to our more than 17 million clients in Canada, the U.S. and 27 other countries. Learn more at rbc.com. We are proud to support a broad range of community initiatives through donations, community investments and employee volunteer activities. See how at www.rbc.com/community-social-impact.
La Banque Royale du Canada est une institution financière mondiale définie par sa raison d'être, guidée par des principes et orientée vers l'excellence en matière de rendement. Notre succès est attribuable aux quelque 94 000+ employés qui mettent à profit leur créativité et leur savoir faire pour concrétiser notre vision, nos valeurs et notre stratégie afin que nous puissions contribuer à la prospérité de nos clients et au dynamisme des collectivités. Selon la capitalisation boursière, nous sommes la plus importante banque du Canada et l'une des plus grandes banques du monde. Nous avons adopté un modèle d'affaires diversifié axé sur l'innovation et l'offre d'expériences exceptionnelles à nos plus de 17 millions de clients au Canada, aux États Unis et dans 27 autres pays. Pour en savoir plus, visitez le site rbc.com/francais
Nous sommes fiers d'appuyer une grande diversité d'initiatives communautaires par des dons, des investissements dans la collectivité et le travail bénévole de nos employés. Pour de plus amples renseignements, visitez le site www.rbc.com/collectivite-impact-social.