IT & Software

TechOps Analyst With Microsoft EntraID

Vertage Global

Manchester · England · United Kingdom

  • Own the JML process framework. Define standards, controls, escalation paths, and exception handling while the Service Desk executes routine provisioning against those standards.
  • Conduct periodic user access reviews with business stakeholders, ensuring access entitlements remain appropriate, justified, and compliant.
  • Identify and remediate access control gaps, segregation of duties conflicts, and governance weaknesses across supported platforms.
  • Maintain clear, audit-ready documentation and evidence to support internal and external compliance reviews.
  • Act as the primary point of escalation for non-standard or high-risk access decisions referred from the Service Desk.

Automation & Tooling

  • Develop and maintain automation (e.g. PowerShell, Graph API, JQL) to reduce manual effort in access provisioning, reporting, and compliance tasks including tooling consumed by the Service Desk.
  • Build and maintain access lifecycle automation where practical, reducing reliance on manual ticket-driven workflows.
  • Identify and propose tooling improvements that improve accuracy, auditability, and operational efficiency.
  • Maintain version-controlled scripts and automation assets to ensure reliability and supportability.

Reporting & Compliance Assurance

  • Produce and maintain access, compliance, and platform health reports for governance, audit, and management oversight.
  • Support phishing simulations, compliance campaigns, and audit readiness activities.
  • Provide evidence and analysis to support internal audit, external review, or regulatory inspection.
  • Monitor for anomalous access patterns or entitlement drift and elevate or remediate accordingly.
  • Design and maintain Service Catalogue items and process documentation for access-related services including operating guides consumed by the Service Desk for transactional execution.
  • Produce and maintain runbooks, access control standards, and training materials.
  • Ensure all documentation is current, clearly written, and operationally fit for purpose.

Collaboration & Stakeholder Engagement

  • Work closely with the Service Desk to ensure transactional JML processes are well-governed, consistently executed, and escalated appropriately.
  • Engage with business stakeholders on access reviews, compliance activities, and platform changes.
  • Collaborate with Security, Risk, and Corporate Support Engineering teams on access governance and platform security.

Experience and Skills

Technical

  • Solid hands-on experience with Microsoft 365, Entra ID / Azure AD, Google Workspace, and Atlassian in an enterprise environment.
  • A good understanding of RBAC, access governance, entitlement management, and Conditional Access.
  • Demonstrable scripting and automation capability (e.g. PowerShell, Microsoft Graph API, JQL).
  • Experience designing or owning JML process frameworks in a regulated or audit-sensitive environment, not just executing them.
  • Familiarity with enterprise password management, MFA, and privileged access controls.
  • Experience with Halo ITSM or equivalent ITSM platforms is desirable.

Operational & Governance

  • Strong audit, compliance, and evidence-gathering mindset who is able to build and demonstrate a defensible control environment.
  • Ability to identify access risk and proactively address control weaknesses.
  • Experience supporting or preparing for internal or external audits.
  • Comfortable working alongside a separate Service Desk function responsible for transactional delivery.

Ways of Working

  • Process-driven and analytically minded. Comfortable defining how work is done, not just doing it.
  • Strong documentation discipline and structured approach to knowledge management.
  • Able to balance security and control requirements with operational pragmatism.
  • Self-directed and capable of managing workload with light supervision.
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