I was laid off from my previous company earlier this year and I’m currently looking to break into a Sailpoint Engineer role. As an IAM advisor, I managed the access certifications at my previous job using Sailpoint and found that I LOVED the technical tasks more than the advisory work behind my position. Configuring certifications, investigating lifecycle events, and monitoring logs actually made me excited to get up for work each day.
Unfortunately, my role limited my permissions to the Certification Admin role and every interview I’ve had for a SailPoint Engineering position seem to expect more insight than those permissions would have given me. I have experience with APIs, Active Directory, Azure, python, and beanshell, but not directly with SailPoint.
I’m a fast learner and more importantly, I WANT to learn more and become an expert with the tool, but my resources are extremely limited right now due to my current employment status. Does anyone have any tips that would help me land and ace an interview for a Sailpoint Engineer/Consultant position? I really want this!
Please go through the following articles for the basics. Here you will find blogs, KBs, and new features – a lot of information within the Community itself, plus identity university: university.sailpoint.com is another great place where you have all the training materials. It’s a great place to start learning and preparing for different role-based certifications & Identity University ,here you will have Free Training, Product Training, Training Paths, Credentials and Certifications.
For IdentityIQ, you can start installation practice locally on your PC or VM workstation from day one. However, when it comes to IdentityNow/Identity Security Cloud, you need to participate in the Ambassador program to gain test tenant access where you can start practicing. Please check below for more information about the Ambassador program
Hi @aiselcat, thank you for sharing your journey!
Your passion for the technical side of IdentityIQ is clear, and that’s a strong foundation for success in a SailPoint Engineering role… Based on your background and goals, I will start writing a structured roadmap to help you build the right skills, gain confidence, and prepare for interviews effectively.
Stage 2: Get Hands-On with Engineering Skills (4–6 weeks)
Work on Real IIQ Tasks
Create a certification campaign and simulate role revokes.
Write a custom CertificationPostProcessorRule to take actions after certification is finished.
Learn how provisioning plans are generated and processed.
Application Onboarding
Practice onboarding apps with DelimitedFile and JDBC connectors, and perfect if you can make DC and connect to AD, also if you can use any mock WebService “available free on the internet” then that will give you a common Apps used.
Configure schema, aggregation, correlation, and provisioning settings.
Understand Logs and Troubleshooting
Learn how to read “SailPoint log” to debug identity aggregation, provisioning failures, or rule errors.
Add custom logging in your rules using log.error("My Log Message").
Mini-Projects You Can Try
Auto-disable users not seen in HR file or logged in to AD or any other application for 30 days.
Assign roles based on department automatically using a rule.
Generate a ServiceNow (or any other ITSM Solution) ticket when someone gets an IT role.
You can also search in SailPoint Compass about the Mock Project, you can do practice and the exercises that recommended by SailPoint.
You’re on the right path - many engineers began exactly where you are now. What matters most is hands-on practice. Set up your own lab, build small use cases, and explore the Developer Community often. You’re not starting from zero - you already have context. Now it’s about unlocking the technical side.
If you ever get stuck, feel free to post your use case. This community is full of great people who can help.
I recently was in the same boat like you and decided to do my research on myself. I encourage you to go for federal or government entities since these ones are the ones working with SaaS and aPaaS platforms. In these entities you’ll have the space to grow along with time. Private entities are also a good investment, however based on my experience I’d go for the public market.
