Romania - Junior Identity Engineer

Role Description:

Booking Holdings Romania is a Center of Excellence based in Bucharest, Romania and was created to support the increasing business demands of the Booking Holdings Brands. The Center of Excellence provides access to specialized and highly skilled talent, leading industry best practices, and collaboration opportunities across all of our Brands.

As part of our Booking Holdings Romania team, you will have the opportunity to be a part of the world's leading provider of online travel, with a mission of making it easier for everyone to experience the world through six-primary consumer facing brands: , Priceline, Agoda, KAYAK, OpenTable and

Role description

The Identity Management Team focuses on building and supporting internal application integrations, access and identity environments.

The Junior Identity Engineer helps to administer, monitor and maintain the systems that manage corporate identity, authentication and access for our employees across the organization in a secure, scalable way.

Working as part of the Identity Management team, this role is responsible for helping to deliver a compliant and frictionless user experience for our colleagues, following the processes and guidance provided by senior team members and industry standards.

This role provides a hybrid way of working with an onsite presence of 2 days/week.

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

• Troubleshoot user account provisioning and authentication issues in all related systems (e.g. Active Directory, Okta, EntraID)
• Adhere to Technology processes, best practices, change management and incident handling
• Work with vendors and applications owners to support integration of new tools and applications onto Okta SSO and provisioning
• Act as an intermediary between IT Support and Identity team to resolve Okta and Active Directory related escalations
• Proactively monitor related systems using all available tools to ensure issues are detected and resolved before they impact our customers
• Be responsible for ensuring knowledge transfer to IT Support happens in order to reduce escalations
• Flag opportunities and help automate processes that would solve business problems
• Communicate effectively within the team and bring ideas to team discussions
• Show desire to keep up-to-date with IAM technologies and concepts, learn and absorb knowledge from outside sources and from working with colleagues
• Keep documentation updated and accurate
• Participates in on-call rotation and out of hours maintenance where required.

Role Qualifications and Requirements

• 1-3 years of relevant experience
• You have a basic understanding of legacy and modern authentication protocols (e.g. LDAP, Kerberos, SAML, OpenID Connect, OAuth2)
• You have a basic understanding of multi-factor authentication
• You have a basic understanding of Identity lifecycle management
• You have experience in working with a range of 3rd party vendors
• Basic understanding of enterprise Identity and Authentication management software.
• You have a basic understanding of how automation can be used to solve business problems
• You have a basic understanding of the different access control models
• You have some experience in at least one scripting language (a plus)Proficiency in both speaking and writing English

Benefits & Perks

• Contributing to a high scale, complex, world renowned product and seeing real-time impact of your work on millions of travelers worldwide
• Working in a fast-paced and performance driven culture
• Technical, behavioral and interpersonal competence advancement via on-the-job opportunities, experimental projects, hackathons, conferences and active community participation
• Competitive compensation and benefits package
• Vast amounts of data to validate your ideas and the opportunity to experiment with real users

Booking Holdings is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We strive to move well beyond traditional equal opportunity and work to create an environment that allows everyone to thrive.