Lead Info Sec - IAM Tools Engineer - Charlotte, NC

About the role

A large enterprise financial services organization is seeking a Lead Information Security Engineer to join its Identity and Access Management technology group in Charlotte, NC. This senior technical role focuses on protecting and maintaining a portfolio of business-critical IAM applications. The engineer will collaborate across security engineering, application operations, infrastructure, and reliability initiatives to ensure these platforms remain secure, available, scalable, and operationally sound.

Responsibilities

• Assess security vulnerabilities and coordinate remediation activities with engineering teams
• Provide senior-level support for production IAM applications
• Lead technical troubleshooting during outages and critical incidents
• Perform root cause analysis and drive corrective actions
• Improve application monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational metrics
• Help establish application health and reliability standards
• Coordinate changes involving networking, databases, middleware, certificates, DNS, and cloud services
• Support development, testing, staging, production, and disaster recovery environments
• Review production changes for operational and security risk
• Participate in disaster recovery testing and resiliency planning
• Drive automation and operational process improvements
• Communicate technical risks and recommendations to engineering leaders and stakeholders

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Information Security Engineering, Platform Engineering, Application Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or a related discipline
• Strong background in vulnerability management and application security
• Experience supporting enterprise applications in production
• Hands-on involvement with major incident response and production troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of logging, monitoring, telemetry, alerting, and application observability
• Experience supporting distributed, cloud-hosted, or highly available applications
• Knowledge of production change, release, and implementation processes
• Strong root cause analysis and technical problem-solving abilities
• Ability to lead technical initiatives involving multiple engineering and security teams

Preferred Qualifications

• Background supporting Identity and Access Management or Identity Governance platforms
• Experience with Azure
• Exposure to Kubernetes, OpenShift, or other container platforms
• Experience working with application performance monitoring tools
• Knowledge of disaster recovery and business continuity practices
• Experience leading vulnerability remediation efforts
• Understanding of ITIL Incident, Problem, Change, or Service Management
• Familiarity with CI/CD automation and DevSecOps practices
• CISSP, Security+, AWS, Azure, Kubernetes, ITIL, or similar certifications

Pay

$69–$78/hour depending on experience

Schedule

6-month contract

Location: Charlotte, NC