Access Assurance Analyst - USDS

Responsibilities

Team Intro
The Access Assurance vertical within USDS Data Identity and Access Management (DIAM) Team is responsible for designing and maintaining an access management program with a mission to enforce the principle of least privilege. We strive to establish secure and compliant processes around provisioning, deprovisioning and governance of access to USDS data and infrastructure proactively identifying and reducing risks.

Job Overview:
As an Access Assurance Analyst, you will be part of the team responsible for Access Assurance within TikTok USDS. You will be responsible for supporting the team along with a team of cross-functional cyber, privacy, engineering, and data protection analysts to define, implement, manage, and measure controls to protect data in accordance with USDS policies and standards relevant to geographical regulations, contractual commitments, and confidentiality requirements. The Access Assurance Analyst will play a pivotal role in operationalization of access management programs in USDS.

In order to enhance collaboration and cross-functional partnerships, among other things, at this time, our organization follows a hybrid work schedule that requires employees to work in the office 3 days a week, or as directed by their manager/department. We regularly review our hybrid work model, and the specific requirements may change at any time.

Responsibilities:
- Design access management program that addresses data residency and fine-grained role-based access requirements and controls as necessitated by business need and regulations
- Assist in the development and implementation of Access governance frameworks, policies, and procedures.
- Build and review technical and functional requirements for in-house or external technologies to support access management and assurance needs, including applying appropriate security measures
- Operationalize access management workflows to improve efficiency
- Support periodic reviews of access to USDS data and systems
- Drive remediation of non-compliant access in a timely fashion
- Implement and enforce mechanisms to proactively monitor, respond and report on inappropriate data access events
- Work with other information security teams to classify and categorize data based on sensitivity and compliance requirements
- Support interactions with Risk and Compliance to understand control requirements and provide information to support findings for non-compliance with internal security policies
- Responsible for designing and reporting key metrics and visualizations for weekly, monthly and bimonthly cadences across multiple audiences
- Participate in security reviews to ensure compliance with access governance policies.
- Foster a principle of least privilege for access management
- Collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure alignment of access governance initiatives with organizational goals.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field (e.g., Information Management, Computer Science, Business Analytics, Cyber Security)
- 5+ years of experience in identity and access management or access governance & 5+ years of experience working with IAM tools and strong knowledge of Access management concepts (RBAC, PAM, Access Reviews, SOD, LCM, provisioning and deprovisioning of Access)
- Experience in designing/deploying Access management solutions, Experience analyzing large data sets across multiple database types (e.g., MySQL, Hive, Redis etc) leveraging SQL etc., Experience with industry frameworks, standards and regulations (e.g. ISO, NIST)