At a Glance
- Tasks: Implement advanced Keycloak configurations and integrations for modern authentication needs.
- Company: Join Accenture, a leader in tech innovation and diversity.
- Benefits: Enjoy 18 weeks paid parental leave, flexible work arrangements, and career development opportunities.
- Other info: Be part of a supportive culture that values health, wellbeing, and career growth.
- Why this job: Make an impact in security engineering while working with cutting-edge technologies.
- Qualifications: 4-6 years in IAM/security roles and 3+ years hands-on Keycloak experience required.
The predicted salary is between 118800 - 145200 $ per year.
About the role
As a Keycloak Senior Developer, you will be a senior technical contributor delivering Keycloak configurations and extensions for a distributed environment.
You will work closely with the Technical Lead to implement robust realm/client designs, authentication flows, and integrations aligned to modern authentication needs (OIDC/OAuth2/SAML, SSO, identity brokering).
- What you'll be responsible for
- Implementing advanced Keycloak configurations for OIDC/OAuth2/SAML, SSO, and identity brokering.
- Building Keycloak patterns suitable for distributed deployments (multi-site / multi-environment consistency).
- Implementing federation/integration with identity sources (e. g., LDAP-based federation) and shaping token/claims mapping to meet application requirements.
- Implementing strong authentication patterns (e. g., MFA, certificate-based auth) as required for security posture.
- Contributing to configuration-as-code practices so Keycloak configuration can be versioned, promoted, and audited.
- Performing peer reviews, uplifting engineering standards, and supporting defect triage across authentication flows and integrations.
- Supporting operational hardening activities (secure baseline config, logging/audit, backup/restore testing).
What we're looking for
- 4–6+ years' experience in IAM / security engineering roles.
- 3+ years' hands-on Keycloak experience.
- Strong experience implementing OIDC/OAuth2 and/or SAML SSO integrations.
- Strong troubleshooting skills across authentication flows, tokens, and federation.
- Security Clearance
- Current NV2 Security Clearance
- Must be willing to work onsite 5 days a week
Benefits of working at Accenture
- 18 weeks paid parental leave
- Long & short-term career break opportunities
- Structured career development program
- Local and international career opportunities.
- Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace TM
- Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture's Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.
- We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year's Diversity & Inclusion Index!
Keycloak Senior Developer (Distributed Authentication Platform) in Sydney employer: Accenture
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