Auth0 / Customer Identity Specialist

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Role: Auth0 / Customer Identity Specialist

Location: Hyderabad/Kochi | Experience: 6-10 Years

Notice Period-Immediate Joiners Only

Role Summary:

Hands-on IAM specialist responsible for implementing, configuring, and supporting Auth0 solutions on the Customer Identity (CIAM) side within a banking/financial services environment, including real-time troubleshooting of customer authentication issues.

Key Responsibilities:

Implement and configure Auth0 Customer Identity modules (Universal Login, connections, MFA, Actions/extensibility, attack protection, logging)

Design and support OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect flows for customer-facing applications

Debug customer identity issues in real time, with intimate knowledge of JSON Web Tokens (JWT) — claims, signatures, expiry, audience/issuer validation, access/refresh token behavior

Apply and support FAPI 2.0 (Financial-grade API) aligned authentication and authorization patterns

Integrate Auth0 with APIs, applications, and identity federation/SSO where required

Contribute to identity runbooks, playbooks, and process documentation

Support audit and compliance evidence gathering related to customer authentication and access

Escalate and coordinate on critical customer-identity events with senior leadership

Required Experience:

6+ years in IAM / identity security, with 3–5+ years of hands-on Auth0 (Customer Identity) implementation and support experience

Proven experience debugging production customer auth/token issues under time pressure

BFSI client-facing implementation experience preferred

Core Technical Expertise:

Auth0 (Customer Identity / CIAM)

JSON Web Tokens (JWT), OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect

FAPI 2.0 standard familiarity

MFA, PKCE, token/session lifecycle, secure client patterns

Identity federation and SSO as applied to CIAM

API security fundamentals related to customer authentication

Mandatory Certifications

Auth0 / Okta-related identity certifications (as applicable); cloud identity adjacency (e.g., Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD B2C) a plus