Identity and Security Engineer

Greenberg Traurig (GT) is a global law firm with locations across 15 countries, offering competitive compensation, an excellent benefits package, and a collaborative environment. This hybrid role reports to the Enterprise Monitoring and Systems Management Supervisor and can be based in various offices.

About the Role

The Identity & Security Engineer is responsible for the engineering, architecture, security, and monitoring of the firm’s core identity services and hybrid integrations, primarily within Microsoft cloud ecosystems, with a growing presence in AWS and GCP. The role involves designing and implementing enterprise identity and access management solutions, leading secure authentication and authorization frameworks, driving automation and engineering best practices, performing root cause analysis on complex identity-based incidents, and ensuring secure access to applications and resources at scale.

This position requires deep technical expertise, strong architectural thinking, and the ability to lead identity modernization efforts across on-premise and cloud environments. The ideal candidate upholds strict ethical standards and is trustworthy and reliable.

This role requires the ability to work flexible hours and participate in an on-call rotation.

Responsibilities

• Designs, implements, optimizes, and maintains enterprise identity platforms (e.g., Active Directory Domain Services, Entra ID, SSO, MFA), including architecture, capacity planning, and lifecycle management.
• Architects, implements, and improves secure identity frameworks across on-premise and cloud environments, including role-based access control (RBAC), least privilege access models, just-in-time (JIT) access models, conditional access policies, and access lifecycles to reduce over-privilege.
• Defines and improves identity role design to reduce over-privilege.
• Establishes governance for non-human identities (service accounts, automation identities, app registrations) and implements guardrails that prevent unmanaged credentials and high-risk identities.
• Builds integrations between identity platforms and business systems and applications.
• Collaborates with technology teams, including security, compliance, application, DevOps, and infrastructure to implement and ensure secure identity practices across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Leads PKI design standards, hardening, modernization efforts, and certificate-based authentication risk reduction.
• Designs, deploys, and maintains vendor remote access and privileged access management systems.
• Engineers detection logic, monitoring, and auditing capabilities to identify and evaluate anomalous user and identity behavior.
• Leads detection engineering and incident response for identity and access threats using ITDR, EDR, and SIEM tools, and develops playbooks for containment and remediation.
• Partners with Information Security on identity threat detection and response.
• Provides Tier 3 escalation support and guidance, and leads root cause analysis for complex identity issues impacting privileged access and authentication across on-prem and cloud environments.
• Implements and maintains security configurations to protect against unauthorized access and other security threats against the firm’s on-prem infrastructure and cloud-based platforms.
• Develops, maintains, and reviews automation frameworks, scripts, and infrastructure-as-code to drive process improvement and reduce manual administrative and routine tasks.
• Partners with information security and compliance teams to design controls and engineer evidence collection that demonstrate compliance with industry standards.
• Leads project delivery and execution of tasks related to areas of identity responsibility, including requirements, design, implementation, testing, rollout, and operational transition.
• Evaluates and recommends emerging technologies, trends, and best practices in identity and access management, identity protection, and governance.
• Authors design documentation, runbooks, and standards, and enforces identity governance procedures across the team.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Security, or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 8+ years of professional experience designing and engineering medium-to-large enterprise Microsoft Windows AD DS environments, preferably in a law firm or professional services environment.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with Microsoft Entra ID in hybrid environments.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Active Directory Domain Services design and operations.
• Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Entra Suite architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with federation and SSO integrations.
• Hands-on experience with identity platforms such as Okta, Ping Identity, or similar.
• Experience managing multifactor authentication solutions.
• Experience engineering and managing Privileged Access Management platforms.
• Experience with AD CS design/hardening or certificate-based authentication modernization.
• Strong experience with automation (PowerShell required, API experience strongly preferred).
• Experience with ITDR platforms such as Microsoft Defender for Identity, Entra ID Protection, and Microsoft Defender XDR, or similar.
• Familiarity with AWS and GCP cloud environments is a plus.

Skills & Competencies

• Deep expertise in AD DS, Entra ID, ADCS, and Single Sign-On.
• Expert knowledge of identity and access management and role-based access controls.
• Expertise designing and engineering federation and multifactor authentication solutions.
• Expertise in authentication and authorization protocols and flows (Kerberos, SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, LDAP).
• Good working knowledge of public key infrastructure (PKI) and certificate lifecycle management.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust security principles.
• In-depth knowledge of Microsoft Windows operating systems.
• Good working knowledge of basic networking concepts, including TCP/IP, DNS, and DHCP.
• Advanced automation and scripting skills (PowerShell, Microsoft Graph API, Python, Terraform, or similar).
• Fundamental understanding of AI model infrastructure and AI agent security.
• Strong analytical, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex system, application, security, and performance issues.
• Strong communication, interpersonal, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Ability to articulate issues, risks, and proposed solutions to various levels of technology staff, management, and non-technical audiences.
• Strong attention to detail and accuracy.
• Ability to document and maintain security and monitoring policies, procedures, and configurations.
• Ability to multitask efficiently yet prioritize and organize competing work demands.
• Demonstrated integrity and commitment to strict ethical standards in all professional dealings.
• Proven record of reliability and dependability.
• Self-starter and independent, yet functions as an integral part of a team.
• Proven ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced, security-conscious environment.
• High degree of initiative and motivation.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation.
• Excellent benefits package.