Lead AI Security Engineer — Hybrid IAM & AI Gateway

Skillfield; Melbourne; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

Skillfield is a specialist technology consultancy focused on cyber, data and AI security. We seek a Lead AI Security Engineer to build foundations for deploying AI agents securely, including MCP gateways, PAM uplift, and robust identity strategies for humans, AI agents and non-human identities.

You will hands-on code, configure platforms, and drive a small team to deliver secure, production-ready patterns across client projects in a hybrid Melbourne setting.

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on IAM engineering experience with Microsoft Entra ID (Entra ID, PIM, workload identities).
• Strong knowledge of OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and SCIM with practical security deployments.
• Experience implementing PAM and secrets management for service accounts and machine identities.

Responsibilities

• Build and harden secure access paths for AI agents, including MCP and AI gateways.
• Implement agent/workload identity with OAuth 2.0 token exchange, delegated auth and short‑lived credentials.
• Deliver PAM uplift for human and non-human identities using Entra ID, PIM and Azure Key Vault.
• Secure APIs and MCP servers end to end including authz, rate limiting and monitoring.
• Automate security controls with IaC and CI/CD pipelines across clients.
• Instrument AI agents, gateways and MCP servers with logging and monitoring.
• Coach and review a small engineering team, setting high quality standards.
• Turn proofs of concept into production-ready reusable patterns for Skillfield.

Skills

IAM engineering

OAuth 2.0 / OIDC

Scripting: Python/Go/TypeScript

Mentoring / technical leadership

CI/CD awareness

Tools

Terraform

Bicep

Azure Key Vault

Microsoft Entra ID

Entra Agent ID

Job description

Skillfield is a specialist technology consultancy focused on cyber, data and AI security. We seek a Lead AI Security Engineer to build foundations for deploying AI agents securely, including MCP gateways, PAM uplift, and robust identity strategies for humans, AI agents and non-human identities.

You will hands-on code, configure platforms, and drive a small team to deliver secure, production-ready patterns across client projects in a hybrid Melbourne setting.