Senior Identity and Access Management Engineer (PAM)

Essential Criteria

• Proven experience applying Identity & Access Management (IAM) principles including Authentication, Authorisation, Access control models (RBAC / ABAC / PBAC), identity lifecycle management (Joiners / Movers / Leavers) and Zero Trust.
• Hands-on experience designing or leading AI driven initiatives within IAM or Cybersecurity.
• Strong ability to analyse identity telemetry (audit logs, sign in- logs, access data) and translate insights into actionable improvements.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD), including:
  • Users, Groups (static & dynamic), roles, service principals, app registrations.
  • Directories, Tenants, Objects, and Attribute Structures.
  • Conditional Access policies, SSO (SAML & OIDC), Access Packages, MFA and Passwordless authentication (e.g. Windows Hello for Business, FIDO2).
  • Identity governance activities including Access reviews, Entitlement Management and access control models.
  • MS and 3rd party Agentic AI agents governance and lifecycle management.
• Solid engineering experience in Privileged Access Management (PAM) such as CyberArk, StrongDM:
  • User and group management, OU design, Group Policy Objects (GPOs).
  • Hybrid identity integration (Azure AD Connect / Cloud Sync).
  • Password rotation policies.
  • Different types of service accounts for on-premises and cloud use cases (SVC, gMSA, MI, SPN, RPA).
  • Working knowledge of how privileges and account types are secured within different operating systems, databases, servers, cloud resources.
• Experience working with Identity Governance tooling such as Saviynt / SailPoint or any other similar product.
• Experience with securing access within cloud platforms and technologies (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Ability to define AI use cases and requirements aligned to Agent identity governance, Agent lifecycle management, designing controls for effective risk reduction.
• Strong understanding of identity threat landscape and how AI can be applied to detect and mitigate risks.
• Experience in gathering high level technical requirements, discuss with stakeholders to break it down to detailed requirements along with timeline and communicate to the engineers.
• Experience mentoring or coaching engineers, provide technical advice to the team and contributing to team standards and best practices.
• Work with Engineering and Product Manager to deliver technical milestones in line with product and business strategy.
• Work collaboratively with IT, product teams, Security Operations Centre, Security Analysts, Security Architects and end users to support IAM & PAM solutions and to ensure secure delivery, safeguarding both colleague and customer data.
• Exhibit excellent communication and presentation skills, able to convey complex issues and findings clearly and effectively.
• Demonstrates a strong technical mindset with the ability to analyse complex IAM, PAM and AI challenges, make sound architectural and engineering decisions, and proactively remove technical or organisational blockers to enable effective and timely delivery.
• Maintains a commitment to continuous learning while building strong, trusted relationships with technical teams, security partners, and business stakeholders to drive collaboration, capability uplift, and shared ownership of outcomes.