Senior Identity Access Engineer

Team: Workplace Technology

Location: US TX Austin

Commitment: Employee - Regular/Permanent

Workplace Type: onsite

Salary:

What you'll do

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Key Responsibilities

• Build and maintain identity lifecycle automations, including joiner/mover/leaver workflows and SCIM provisioning.
• Own SSO and MFA integrations across enterprise SaaS applications.
• Design and support integrations between HRIS, identity providers, and downstream systems.
• Drive operational excellence for identity infrastructure through monitoring, troubleshooting, and incident response.
• Partner with Security teams on conditional access policies, privileged access patterns, and identity governance controls.
• Serve as a primary technical contributor for ITGC and SOX audit activities related to identity systems, including evidence collection, control walkthroughs, and remediation efforts.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to identity engineering standards, tooling strategy, and automation best practices.

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Must-Haves

• 6+ years of experience in Identity & Access Management (IAM), Identity Engineering, or related infrastructure/security engineering roles.
• Strong hands-on experience with Okta Identity Engine, Microsoft Entra ID, and Active Directory-integrated environments.
• Deep understanding of authentication and federation protocols including SCIM, SAML, OAuth, and OIDC.
• Experience building API-driven automations and scripting solutions using Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• Experience implementing and supporting SSO, MFA, and lifecycle provisioning workflows at enterprise scale.
• Direct experience supporting ITGC/SOX audits and identity-related compliance controls.
• Strong troubleshooting, systems integration, and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Okta Certification

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Nice-to-Haves

• Experience integrating HRIS platforms such as Workday with identity systems.
• Familiarity with conditional access frameworks, FIDO2, TOTP, and modern authentication/security controls.
• Experience with observability, alerting, and operational monitoring for identity platforms.
• Exposure to privileged access management (PAM) or zero trust initiatives.
• Experience leveraging AI or workflow automation tooling to improve IT operations and identity workflows.
• Prior experience mentoring engineers or contributing to identity architecture standards.

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What Success Looks Like

• Operates autonomously across complex identity and automation initiatives.
• Improves scalability, reliability, and audit readiness across the identity ecosystem.
• Contributes strategic input into identity tooling, governance, and automation direction.
• Raises the technical maturity of identity operations through automation and engineering best practices.