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Senior Security Engineer, IAM

Illinois, US🌐 Remote💼 Full-time💰 $130,000–$130,000🗓 2026-08-21 → 2026-09-26

Core

Architect and lead enterprise IAM strategy, Zero Trust implementation, and identity threat detection across workforce, machine, and workload identities.

Role type

Senior IC Security Engineer (IAM/Identity Architecture)

Builds

AI-enabled identity platforms, Zero Trust controls, and automated identity governance systems

Domain

Cybersecurity, Identity & Access Management (IAM), Cloud Security

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Identity architecture design, Zero Trust implementation, Identity Lifecycle Management, Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity Governance & Administration (IGA), Threat detection engineering, Policy-as-code, Scripting/automation (Python/Bash/PowerShell), Cloud IAM (AWS/Azure/GCP), Authentication protocols (SAML/OIDC/OAuth)

Preferred skills

AI-augmented security, Non-human identity management, CI/CD security integration, Compliance audit leadership (SOX/SOC2/ISO)

Technologies

Okta, Entra ID, Ping, SailPoint, Saviynt, CyberArk, BeyondTrust, SIEM, SOAR, UEBA, Kubernetes, Terraform

Responsibilities

Design continuous adaptive trust capabilities and ZTNA architectures, Engineer identity lifecycle automation and PAM solutions, Lead integration of identity telemetry into detection stacks, Define identity controls for AI-augmented CI/CD pipelines, Mentor engineers on identity strategy and threat response, Partner with GRC on compliance and audit requirements

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with mentorship responsibilities

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