Identity Security Engineer (IAM & Identity Governance)

KBR Careers; Sydney; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

KBR seeks an Associate Security Engineer to join its Identity Security Services team in Australia. This hands-on role focuses on identity and access management, authentication, privileged access, and governance within a global cybersecurity environment.

You will administer Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, and hybrid identity solutions while collaborating with engineers and architects to strengthen security and operational effectiveness.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a cybersecurity or IT-related field; 2+ years in information technology or cybersecurity.
• Experience with identity platforms, cloud services, and identity-related technologies.
• Australian citizenship is required.

Responsibilities

• Administer and support Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, hybrid identity, directory services, and identity synchronization platforms.
• Manage identities, access, authentication, authorization, privileged access, and identity governance for users, groups, devices, apps, and service accounts.
• Troubleshoot identity and access issues, perform root cause analysis, and support incident response, security monitoring, threat detection, and remediation activities.
• Support enterprise app integrations, federation services, and modern authentication technologies (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, SCIM, MFA, CA, passwordless).
• Monitor and maintain identity security, directory health, PKI, certificate management, and compliance with governance, audit, and risk requirements.
• Participate in identity-related projects, cloud deployments, migrations, automation, reporting and continuous improvement using PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, KQL, and related tech.
• Create and maintain technical documentation, procedures, knowledge articles, and runbooks.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to enhance identity security and operational effectiveness following security, change, incident, and service management processes.

Skills

Identity management

Authentication

Privileged access

Identity governance

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity/IT/CS

Tools

Microsoft Entra ID

Active Directory

Azure

Microsoft 365

PowerShell

Microsoft Graph

KQL

Job description

KBR seeks an Associate Security Engineer to join its Identity Security Services team in Australia. This hands-on role focuses on identity and access management, authentication, privileged access, and governance within a global cybersecurity environment.

You will administer Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, and hybrid identity solutions while collaborating with engineers and architects to strengthen security and operational effectiveness.