Lead Info Sec - Iam Tools Engineer - Irving, Tx

About the Role

An enterprise technology team is hiring a Lead IAM Security & Reliability Engineer in Irving, TX to take ownership of the operational security and stability of a critical Identity and Access Management application portfolio. This engineer will operate at the intersection of cybersecurity, production engineering, infrastructure, and application support, covering the full operational lifecycle of enterprise IAM platforms—from identifying technical risk and remediating vulnerabilities to restoring services during outages and improving long-term platform resiliency.

Responsibilities

• Own security and operational health initiatives across enterprise IAM applications
• Identify application, container, infrastructure, and open-source vulnerabilities
• Work with development teams to prioritize and complete security remediation
• Evaluate security risks and recommend technical controls
• Take command of technical triage during significant service interruptions
• Coordinate restoration efforts across application, infrastructure, and cybersecurity groups
• Analyze recurring production problems and eliminate underlying causes
• Establish meaningful reliability, incident, and vulnerability metrics
• Improve MTTD and MTTR across supported services
• Build stronger monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting capabilities
• Assist with capacity planning, failover design, traffic management, and load balancing
• Coordinate platform upgrades, environment maintenance, and infrastructure changes
• Validate implementation and rollback plans before major releases
• Help plan and execute disaster recovery exercises
• Promote automation and standardization throughout operational processes

Requirements

• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in security engineering, SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, application engineering, or a related field
• Proven experience maintaining mission-critical applications
• Deep understanding of vulnerability identification, prioritization, remediation, and validation
• Strong application security and security risk assessment knowledge
• Experience directing or heavily participating in major production incidents
• Ability to troubleshoot complex application and infrastructure issues
• Working knowledge of operational telemetry, event monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Experience with enterprise release and change controls
• Background working with cloud-based and highly available systems
• Strong communication skills with the ability to coordinate teams during high-impact technical events

Qualifications

• Identity and Access Management technology experience
• Identity Governance platform knowledge
• Azure-based application or infrastructure experience
• Kubernetes and containerized application experience
• OpenShift exposure
• Experience building or improving monitoring and APM capabilities
• Business continuity and disaster recovery experience
• Knowledge of RTO and RPO concepts
• ITIL-based incident and change management experience
• CI/CD pipeline and deployment automation experience
• DevSecOps background
• Security or cloud certifications are beneficial

Pay

Contract rate of $69-$78/hour

Schedule

6-month engagement

Irving, Texas is the preferred location for this opening.