Identity Engineering Residency
Our IAM Training Bootcamp
Learn identity engineering by building, testing and explaining working systems.
Why we teach identity engineering
We run this programme to prepare identity engineers for the client engagements our consultancy delivers. Participants work through projects based on those IAM systems, from a guided prototype to platform integration and preparation for client interviews. The work gives participants something concrete to demonstrate and discuss.
What the residency covers
The programme combines IAM foundations, vendor products, development and cloud integration. It is open to beginners and to IT professionals who want to specialise in identity engineering.
You start with a test project, develop your skills through further projects and prepare for job placement. The first project helps us assess your starting point and whether to continue to the next phase.
The three programme phases
Phase 1: Guided test project
Deploy components to assemble a prototype IAM platform, with preliminary lessons where needed. Research, discussion and collaboration are part of the work. An evaluation at the end determines whether you progress or conclude the training. This phase typically takes a few weeks to a month.
Phase 2: Core IAM engineering
Work through IAM principles, vendor products, development and cloud integration in projects based on industry applications. Group discussions and shared learning support the project work. This phase can take several months to half a year.
Phase 3: Job placement
Continue developing your IAM skills while preparing your résumé, LinkedIn profile and interview materials. Mock interviews provide feedback before client interviews. Placement support continues until a job contract is secured; timing depends on individual readiness and market conditions.
Find your next learning step
Use these five stages to assess practical progress within the programme. Start at the first stage whose exercise you cannot yet complete. You may be working independently in networking while still applying IAM concepts with guidance; assess each domain separately.
Exam readiness means you can explain concepts and answer exam questions. Project readiness also means you can build, test, diagnose and hand over a working system. A certification alone does not demonstrate that.
Stage 1: Recognise concepts
Learn identities, authentication, authorisation, directories and the HTTP request flow. Avoid treating a successful login as permission to use every resource: separate identity checks from access decisions. Exercise: draw a login and access flow for a sample application. Advance when you can label every actor, identify both decisions and explain one denied-access example.
Stage 2: Apply with guidance
Learn application registration, redirect URLs, claims and access rules. Avoid copying settings without understanding them: record what each setting controls. Exercise: connect a sample application to an identity provider using a guide. Advance when an allowed user can sign in, a disallowed user is refused and you can explain each configuration change.
Stage 3: Diagnose problems
Learn to read protocol messages, logs, certificate errors and claim mappings. Avoid changing several settings at once: state a hypothesis and test one change. Exercise: investigate a broken redirect, an expired certificate and a missing claim in a lab. Advance when you can reproduce all three faults, identify each cause and demonstrate the fix with a repeatable test.
Stage 4: Work independently
Learn least-privilege access design, secret handling and repeatable deployment. Avoid testing only successful logins: include denied access and recovery. Exercise: integrate a second application from a written brief without a step-by-step guide. Advance when another person can reproduce your setup from your notes and run passing tests for sign-in, denied access and logout.
Stage 5: Deliver a project
Learn scope, acceptance criteria, rollback and operational handover. Avoid equating a demo with delivery: document how someone else operates and recovers the system. Exercise: deliver a lab IAM integration against a written brief. Completion means every acceptance test passes, rollback has been demonstrated and another person can follow the runbook. Next, use that evidence to prepare for interviews and identify remaining gaps.
What is Identity and Access Management?
Identity and Access Management (IAM) brings together the processes, policies and systems that manage identities and access. It covers how users sign in, what they can access and how that access changes when they join, move within or leave an organisation.
What identity engineers work on
- Connect applications to identity providers and directories.
- Implement access policies and investigate sign-in failures.
- Integrate vendor products with applications and cloud services.
- Test changes and document how systems are operated.
Do you sponsor OPT, H1B and Green Card?
We do sponsor OPT, H1B and Green Card.
We are on the E-Verify list, so OPT is legitimate for 3 years, if you have a STEM degree.
For H1B, we will sponsor you the first year you join our program. In case you are not picked during H1B lottery, we will keep trying for the next year.
For Green Card, we will sponsor you Green Card the 2nd year or 3rd year after you join the program.
What the programme offers
- Training without tuition fees.
- IAM project work, discussion and feedback.
- Job placement support and sponsorship on the terms above.
Who the residency is for
The programme is for people interested in technology who have the patience to learn through project work and want to build a career in the US. Tell us what you have already built and where you need guidance so we can discuss your starting point.
Discuss your starting point
Tell us about your experience, a project you have tried and the IAM skills you want to develop.