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We call this digital freedom. And it's not just something we provide our customers. It's something that inspires our company. People don't come here to join a culture that's built on digital freedom. They come to cultivate it. \nOur intelligent, cloud identity platform lets people shop, work, bank, and interact wherever and however they want. Without friction. Without fear. \nWhile protecting digital identities is at the core of our technology, protecting individual identities is at the core of our culture. We champion every identity. One of our core values, Respect Individuality, reminds us to celebrate differences so you are empowered to bring your authentic self to work. \nWe're headquartered in Denver, Colorado and we have offices and employees around the globe. We serve the largest, most demanding enterprises worldwide, including more than half of the Fortune 100. At Ping Identity, we're changing the way people and businesses think about cybersecurity, digital experiences, and identity and access management. \nAs a Professional Services Technical Consultant, you will play a technical role in the architecture and successful installation, integration, and deployment of Identity and Access solutions in our clients' environments. You will also assist our implementation partners in that process. You will report to the Director of Professional Services.\nYou will:\nDeliver technical consulting to our customers and partners from various industries including financial services, manufacturing, government, utilities, and more. \nEvaluate client business, process, systems, and technology requirements and advise clients on best practices to help guide and solidify proposed designs.\nConsult with clients to assess current problem states, establish desired future states, and make solution recommendations.\nParticipate in the detailed solution design, implementation, and delivery of Ping Identity IAM product solutions to our clients.\nWork with customers to install, deploy, and configure Ping Identity solutions to meet the customer's requirements.\nCollaborate with Ping Internal teams on escalated customer issues requiring deployment expertise. \nParticipate in services pre-sales processes including presentation of effort size, best practices, and feasibility studies.\nDevelop materials for providing technical consulting (e.g., best practices, report templates, delivery guides, knowledge base articles).\nHelp partners ensure they design an architecture aligned to Ping best practices for a successful customer deployment.\nMentor and assist in the development of internal and external technical resources.\nLead technical delivery from discovery and design through implementation, testing, production readiness, and handover, coordinating dependencies and surfacing delivery risks early.\nDesign and validate secure, scalable, highly available IAM deployments across cloud, hybrid, and on-premises environments, including integration, operational, and disaster-recovery considerations.\nTroubleshoot complex implementation and production issues by analysing logs, traces, configurations, and network behaviour; work with Support and Product Engineering to drive resolution where needed.\nDefine and execute technical validation activities, including integration, end-to-end, performance, and resilience testing, and support cutover and go-live planning.\nProduce clear implementation documentation, runbooks, and knowledge-transfer materials so customer and partner teams can operate and support the solution after delivery.\nBalance strong security controls with a seamless user experience when shaping identity journeys and recommendations.\nYou have:\n5+ years of experience working in a consulting capacity with a minimum of 2 years working directly in the Identity and Access Management space within a large organization or enterprise\nBackground in a consulting capacity within the Identity and Access Management space, including practical System Integration and Implementation experience \nA capability-maturity approach to IAM deployments\nComfortable with subjects such as TCP/IP networking, OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, OIDC, LDAP, and Data Stores\nExperience with Java/JavaScript/Groovy, HTML/CSS to support web application development\nExperience in effort estimates and sizing of projects\nSelf-motivated, willing to take initiative, organized, able to work unaccompanied, and manage communications appropriately\nBachelor of Science in a related field (e.g. Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or Information Systems) or equivalent work-related level of experience\nAvailability to travel up to 50% of the time\nOutstanding cross-functional cooperation skills in particular with our Go-To-Market units.\nExcellent communication, both verbal and written\nPractical experience integrating IAM platforms with enterprise directories, applications, APIs, and identity systems, including federation, authentication, and user lifecycle or provisioning flows.\nExperience with identity standards and protocols such as SCIM, HTTP/REST APIs, and common directory and federation patterns, in addition to OAuth 2.0, SAML 2.0, OIDC, FIDO and LDAP.\nExperience designing or delivering IAM solutions in cloud, hybrid, or on-premises environments, including deployment, upgrade, resilience, and operational support considerations.\nStrong diagnostic skills across application, identity, and network layers, with experience using logs and traces to isolate and resolve integration issues.\nExperience planning and carrying out technical testing, production cutovers, and transition to customer or partner operations.\nAbility to facilitate technical discovery and design workshops, explain trade-offs clearly, and adapt recommendations to customer constraints and desired outcomes.\nExperience working within structured delivery practices, including managing technical risks, dependencies, decisions, and changes across a customer engagement.\nYou have an advantage if: \nComputer and Software Security certifications \nForgeRock or Ping training badges/certifications \nSkills with DevOps best practices, including deployment automation tools, CI/CD, Docker, Terraform, and Kubernetes \nExperience with Ping Identity products and architectures, such as PingFederate, PingAccess, PingDirectory, PingOne, or PingID.\nExperience with identity governance, privileged access, customer identity, or workforce identity use cases beyond a single IAM product or deployment pattern.\nFamiliarity with observability and operational tooling, such as centralised logging, monitoring, alerting, and distributed tracing.\nExperience with source control, infrastructure-as-code, configuration management, and automated testing for repeatable IAM deployments.\nExperience migrating identity services, applications, or user populations from legacy platforms to modern IAM architectures.\nLife at Ping:\nWe believe in and facilitate a flexible, collaborative work environment. We’re growing quickly, but remain true to the innovative, can-do startup values that got us here. Most importantly, we keep hiring talented, smart, fun, and genuinely nice people because that’s who we want to succeed with every day. \nHere are just a few of the things that make Ping special:\nA company culture that empowers you to do your best work.\nEmployee Resource Groups that create a sense of belonging for everyone.\nRegular company and team bonding events.\nCompetitive benefits and perks.\nGlobal volunteering and community initiatives\nOur Benefits: \nGenerous PTO & Holiday Schedule \nParental Leave\nProgressive Healthcare Options\nRetirement Programs\nOpportunity for Education Reimbursement \nCommuter Offset (Specific locations) \nPing is the collective sum of all our individual experiences, backgrounds and influences and we pride ourselves in growing and learning together. We are committed to building an inclusive and diverse environment where everyone’s individuality is respected and everyone has an Identity. In recruiting for new colleagues, we welcome the unique contributions you can bring and encourage you to be your best self.\nWe are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. 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