Lead Cloud Identity Engineer

About the role

The Lead Cloud Identity Engineer will be responsible for setting IAM architecture and standards, leading design governance, building authentication and federation, operating and enhancing enterprise identity services, leading developer activities, designing authorization and governance, automating identity lifecycle, implementing zero trust and detection, and leading incident management.

Responsibilities

• Set IAM architecture & standards: Define reusable patterns for SSO/federation, authorization models, privileged access, and workload/machine identity.
• Ledesign governance: Run identity design reviews for new applications and major platform changes; approve patterns, manage exceptions, and drive adoption.
• Build authentication & federation: Design and implement SAML2, OAuth2/OIDC, WS-Fed, and FIDO2/passkeys, including adaptive/risk-based auth, conditional access, and MFA.
• Engineer IAM platforms: Operate and enhance enterprise identity services (PingOne / PingOne DaVinci or equivalent orchestration platforms).
• Lead developer for IAM platforms: Serve as lead developer driving hands-on code development to build, extend, and maintain new and existing identity platforms, including custom connectors, APIs, and orchestration flows.
• Design authorization & governance: Build scalable RBAC/ABAC/PBAC models, entitlement catalogs, role engineering, and access request workflows (IGA).
• Automate identity lifecycle: Lead and design end-to-end JML automation integrating HRIS, ITSM, directories, and apps via SCIM and event-driven pipelines.
• Identity as Code: Manage identity configuration/policy using Terraform and CI/CD with testing, version control, and deployment discipline.
• Zero Trust & Detection: Implement least privilege and continuous verification; integrate ITDR-style monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs, and rapid revocation.
• Incident leadership: Act as escalation for auth outages, federation issues, and credential compromise; lead RCA and post-incident hardening.
• Influence & mentoring: Partner globally with architects, developers, and security; coach engineers through reviews, playbooks, and training.

Requirements

• Extensive experience owning identity platforms at scale, with deep protocol-level expertise across SAML, OAuth2/OIDC, SCIM, FIDO2/passkeys, LDAP, and Kerberos.
• Hands-on architecture across Azure Entra ID, AWS IAM, or Google Cloud Identity, including cross-cloud federation and hybrid identity patterns.
• Practical experience designing and building infrastructure across Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Strong coding skills in Python and/or TypeScript, with API integrations, Git, CI/CD, and automated testing.
• Delivery of identity configuration as versioned, testable code using Terraform or similar technologies.
• Hands-on experience integrating diverse applications with enterprise governance platforms; design and delivery of JML automation, RBAC/ABAC/PBAC models and access workflows integrating HRIS → IAM → downstream apps via SCIM and event-driven pipelines.

Qualifications

• Experience building multi-step user journeys for Workforce, CIAM, and partner ecosystems using platforms such as PingOne DaVinci or Okta Workflows.
• Hands-on development and design experience with SailPoint IdentityNow/IdentityIQ (or equivalent).
• Real-time detection and response to identity-based threats, integrating signals from IdPs, directories, and SIEM/SOAR platforms.