About the Role
Title: Principal Security Engineer
Job number:
00061823281
Travel required:
No
Job category:
IT Infrastructure
Location:
Seattle / United States
Date published:
Nov 27 2024
Employment type:
Full-time
Work model:
Work from Home
Job Description:
The Principal Security Engineer – IAM is an expert in Identity management and privileged access. They are part of a team that develops, implements, and maintains identity and access management systems. The primary goals of this IAM Engineer are to ensure that only authorized individuals have access to information and resources across the enterprise and to help influence leadership and define long-term strategies for security solution design, maintenance, resource planning, disaster recovery and continuity; ensuring cost effective and appropriate solutions are delivered.
Responsibilities
Acts as the lead subject matter expert in cybersecurity identity solutions engineering.
Defines the long-term strategy for the design, maintenance, resource planning, disaster recovery and continuity for security solutions used to secure the enterprise’s resources.
Liaisons and partners directly with IAM Architect, to assist in maintaining the strategy and vision of our IAM technology systems.
Solves the complex problem of sourcing the security tools/solutions required to enable and enhance the Identity team’s capabilities in a cost effective and efficient manner.
Provides mentoring to other engineers on the team.
Owns core Identity technologies: Active Directory, Identity Management, SSO/MFA, Privileged Access Management and helps to ensure they meet governance and compliance requirements.
Influences across Cyber Security and external teams to design and engineer security solutions for securing the enterprise.
Leverages creative thinking and innovation, with pragmatic outcomes, that build constructive business relationships and gain the trust of others.
Drives continuous process and technology improvements across the Identity and Cybersecurity solutions stack.
Skills/Qualifications
Required
A minimum of 7 years of experience in security engineering, security operations, or development
Have Architect level knowledge on “One Identity ARS, CyberArk, PingFederate, IAM tools”.
Bachelor’s degree with a focus in Computer Science or a related field, or an additional two years of relevant training/experience in lieu of this degree.
Demonstrated ability to influence and clearly communicate across vast sections of IT and the business, including company leaders.
High school diploma or equivalent experience.
Preferred
Industry certification in information security (e.g. CISA, CISSP, and/or GIAC).
Experience working with diverse security tools/solutions Experience coding with common languages and providing integrations with REST or SOAP API’s.
Proven experience developing and executing plans, meeting deadlines, operating under tight time constraints.
Experience monitoring trends in information technology, identity & access, and security that could have an impact on the security of the organization’s products, processes, infrastructure, or customers.