Job Description

Responsibilities:


User and Team Management: Manage organization members, including adding users to specific teams and understanding team responsibilities and visibility. This includes the ability to filter teams by roles such as maintainer or member.


Repository Permission Management: Understand and manage different repository permission levels, including read, triage, write, maintainer, and admin, and assign appropriate roles to team members and open-source contributors. This requires careful consideration of the destructive actions associated with admin privileges.


Organization Hierarchy and Administration: Possess a strong understanding of organization hierarchy and how administration functions within it. This includes knowledge of permission levels at the organization level (owner, billing manager, security manager, outside collaborator, moderator, and member), enterprise level, and team level, as well as for individual repositories.


Identity Provider Integration: Implement and manage the integration of GitHub with identity providers such as Microsoft Entra ID to enable a higher level of authentication and streamline organization management. This includes understanding the necessary installation permissions, such as read all users full profile for Microsoft Entra ID team synchronization.


Security and Compliance: Configure and manage repository protection rules to enforce workflows such as requiring pull requests before merging and ensuring status checks pass. This contributes to maintaining code quality and security.


Single Sign-On (SSO) Implementation: Enable and manage Single Sign-On (SSO) to allow users signed into the corporate network to access the GitHub website without requiring a second sign-in.


Troubleshooting and Support: Work towards the goal of keeping everything working smoothly for all GitHub users within the organization. This may involve answering questions related to user permissions and access.




Required Skills and Experience:


Demonstrated understanding of GitHub's user authentication methods, including personal access tokens and username/password login.


Experience with creating and managing teams within GitHub organizations, including assigning responsibilities and managing capacity.


Solid understanding of GitHub repository permission levels and the capabilities associated with each role.


Familiarity with the concepts and benefits of integrating GitHub with external identity providers like Microsoft Entra ID for enhanced authentication and user management.


Ability to configure and manage GitHub repository protection rules to enforce desired development workflows.


Understanding of different permission levels within GitHub, including organization, enterprise, team, and repository levels.


Knowledge of enabling and managing Single Sign-On (SSO) for seamless user access.


Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to ensure a smooth working environment for GitHub users.

About Virtusa

Teamwork, quality of life, professional and personal development: values that Virtusa is proud to embody. When you join us, you join a team of 27,000 people globally that cares about your growth -- one that seeks to provide you with exciting projects, opportunities and work with state of the art technologies throughout your career with us.



Great minds, great potential: it all comes together at Virtusa. We value collaboration and the team environment of our company, and seek to provide great minds with a dynamic place to nurture new ideas and foster excellence.



Virtusa was founded on principles of equal opportunity for all, and so does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.