A Day As An IAM Administrator

Identity and Access Management Administrator (IAM Admin) What do they do? You might be surprised that there is a chance you are doing some form of IAM in your job. Patrice lays out what the day in the life of an IAM Admin is like and his journey in the IT Career field. We talk about certification and some of the pros and cons that come with the I.T. job field. If you have any questions for Patrice or myself please feel free to drop them in the comments below.

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[abuh.dahdah]

as a I.T. security professional for more than 9yrs now, I suggest and recommend that IAM is the most chill I.T. security role/job in our industry... if you listened to this man he already mentioned the things they do each day.... "add, edit and delete", giving access, removing access, edit access, etc. also when a company is downsizing the IAM team are one of the last team to be rolled off.

[patrice]

Hey man, Had a pleasure doing this interview. Glad to collab anytime man!

[iBarber]

I did this for Walmart for 6 yrs, WTF, as a QA/Systems Manager. Changing my resume now!

[paoloa]

I've always seen these
IAM engineer roles at the time when I was a Sys Admin but never thought that I was actually already practicing the role. I've been underpaid all these years :D

[ChrisR-ypmi]

Good interview. IAM is actually a job that interest me as I want to transition into IT Security.

[sandro_j]

Great interview and content and great advice on the best skills to learn a job - technical skills and soft skills. The ability to communicate effectively is important for any job and that included IT jobs.
My 2 cents for anyone looking to get involved with AWS, Azure, GCP and other cloud based positions is to get some hands on training with IAM.
IAM is the glue that binds and enables services and resources deployed in the cloud to work together. As a simple example you can deploy a database and web server in a cloud infra but what allows the web server to communicate with with the database are the identities, roles and policies (all configured under IAM) assigned to the services to enable the communications.

[dustenmaxwell]

Appreciate sharing this experience. I'm currently studying with extensive online courses specializing in help desk skills, namely active directory, and studying for CompTIA a+ cert. Changing career paths from construction into the tech field and now may focus on any other IAM skillsets to compliment the help desk skills. I'm thoroughly enjoying how much I'm learning and love how encouraging all you folks in the tech field are. Thank you all

[CIPHERFLEX]

IT Governance is one of the most crucial elements of any successful security program. You cant keep people accountable if identities are not maintained and appropriately monitored. For instance, If you let someone use your computer login on a company computer, thats not a good idea. Then theres the possibility of denying responsibility of actions taken benign or otherwise.

[KottonKandy]

Great interview! I’m hoping to get a job in IAM. I appreciate hearing about his journey!

[Neon]

I’m in IAM and a lot of this should be self-service and automate

[glammaof]

I truly appreciate the information shared here. It has given me a much clearer picture. I am very excited to get started.

[KillrTfuuu]

That moment you binge watch "a day in the life of a site reliability engineer" and "IAM administrator" and "DevOps Administrator" and "Systems Engineer" and realize you're already doing ALL these jobs under one title. And I never knew these titles/jobs existed, and paid more!

[jabarig]

His job sounds like mine but without the active directory. I am heading down the cloud route starting Jan 2022

[craigheard]

Thanks guys. Great honest video. You guys helped a lot

[brisco]

Hmm, 25 years ago the HR department would create a user on their system which would include a title, department, shift, office number, etc. The IT overlord software would detect the change, create the user in the company directory, throw said user into the appropriate groups, roles, and organizations based on the info from HR software. That would connect and assign the telephone in the user's office, give permissions to the user's badge to enter his/her building and office, give permissions to login to all the permitted systems only during their shift on PCs assigned to that user, print on printers allowed for the user and his/her groups and create email accounts. When HR terminated a user, all that was done automatically as well, while never contacting the IT department. Now 25 years in the future that doesn't work anymore? Is their some way to automate this in AWS?

[olowujoel]

Hi Patrice, any jml tool link I can check? Help out

[abrahamolasode]

Thanks for this video, i have been looking for some challenges i can take up this year and am glad to be here. is there any channel where i can learn more about Active directory that you can recommend. though currently setting up a lab on AD . just want to have more depth on AD thanks

[hqwlkpz]

Advice!!? I just got a summer internship with RTX(Raytheon Technologies) as a cyber defense analyst working in Identity management. I graduate with a bachelors in Cybersecurity in august and will be going to graduate school in the fall for MS-Management Information Systems. This is my first job in IT and would love some advice on recommendations to best prepare? I do have compTIA sec + cert and I am familiar with Active directory, Powershell and scripting languages.

[billzreviews]

Hello, what are the steps getting into IAM as a beginner and the certifications required ?

[arnezmontgomery]

What’s up I’m new to your channel and I really like this video and it help me a lot, I’m currently in my IT Field as an Tech Administrator but my boss won’t teach me any further possibility on being afraid that I’d take his job or etc. as the IT Director that he’s waited 12 years for and I’m stuck in my position potentially maybe get replaced. I want to journey my skills and potential further and I learn fairly quickly and I networked at my other job and came across a customer that has the same degree and everything just like me works from home as a IAM Manager and just recently he sent me the job as a IAM Analyst and I supposed to get a call tomorrow, a possible 20min interview. I really want the job and figured you could help me or prep me for possible interview questions and things to say to better my chances because to be honest I have no clue on this and I just started studying and researching IAM and the role for it Wednesday. Do you think you can help me out brother?…