Senior Identity Security Architect

Kbr; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great Place To Work

Flexible working

Competitive salary

Paid parental leave

Income protection

Job summary

KBR is seeking a Senior Security Principal – Identity Security to join the global Cyber Security team as a senior technical authority. The role focuses on identity security architecture, engineering leadership, governance and operations across complex enterprise environments.

You will shape KBR’s identity security strategy, establish technical standards, roadmaps and provide hands-on leadership across Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, hybrid identity, PAM, and identity governance.

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ experience in identity and access management (IAM), identity security, cyber security engineering, security architecture or a related field.
• Proven experience designing, implementing and supporting enterprise identity and access management solutions within large, complex environments.
• Demonstrated experience leading identity security initiatives, architecture reviews or enterprise transformation programs.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory and hybrid identity environments.
• Experience with identity governance, privileged access management (PAM), Conditional Access and modern authentication technologies.
• Sound understanding of federation, single sign-on (SSO), identity lifecycle management and application identity.
• Experience with authentication and identity protocols including SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, MFA, FIDO2 and Windows Hello for Business.
• Knowledge of PKI, certificate services and identity security best practices.
• Strong communication, stakeholder engagement, problem-solving and technical leadership skills.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the senior technical authority for enterprise identity security architecture, engineering and governance.
• Define and drive the enterprise identity security strategy, including technical standards, reference architectures and multi-year roadmaps.
• Lead the design, implementation and optimisation of Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, hybrid identity and authentication services.
• Strengthen identity and access management capabilities, including Conditional Access, MFA, passwordless authentication, PAM, RBAC and least-privilege access.
• Establish and mature identity governance, identity lifecycle management and privileged access controls across the enterprise.
• Provide architectural oversight for application identity, federation, SSO, workload identities, service accounts and certificate services.
• Partner with cyber security, cloud, infrastructure and application teams to deliver secure identity solutions that support enterprise transformation.
• Lead identity security initiatives, including tenant migrations, cloud transformation, mergers and acquisitions, and major technology projects.
• Improve identity threat detection, monitoring, incident response and automation using Microsoft security technologies and scripting tools.
• Mentor technical teams and provide strategic advice to senior stakeholders on identity security risks, architecture and best practice.

Skills

IAM experience

Identity security

Cyber security engineering

Security architecture

Microsoft Entra ID

Active Directory

Hybrid identity

SAML/OAuth/OpenID

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

PowerShell

Microsoft Graph

KQL

Logic Apps

Terraform

Job description

KBR is seeking a Senior Security Principal – Identity Security to join the global Cyber Security team as a senior technical authority. The role focuses on identity security architecture, engineering leadership, governance and operations across complex enterprise environments.

You will shape KBR’s identity security strategy, establish technical standards, roadmaps and provide hands-on leadership across Microsoft Entra ID, Active Directory, hybrid identity, PAM, and identity governance.