Senior Identity Security Architect & Strategy Lead

KBR, Inc.; Adelaide; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Great Place To Work

Flexible working

Competitive salary (including annual)

Paid parental leave

Income protection

Corporate rewards

Salary packaging/Novated leasing

Employee stock purchase plans

Health insurance discounts

Career development

Job summary

KBR, Inc. is seeking a Senior Security Principal – Identity Security to join our global Cyber Security team.

You will act as a senior technical authority, shaping identity security strategy and providing hands-on leadership across enterprise authentication, IAM and governance initiatives. You will drive standards for Entra ID, AD and hybrid identity, while coordinating across security, cloud and applications teams to reduce risk and enable transformation.

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 IAM 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, PAM, Conditional Access and modern authentication technologies.
• Knowledge of federation, single sign-on (SSO), identity lifecycle management and application identity.
• Experience with authentication 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

Identity security

Security architecture

Cyber security engineering

Leadership

Stakeholder engagement

Education

Bachelor's degree in Cyber Security

Tools

Microsoft Entra ID

Active Directory

PowerShell

Job description

KBR, Inc. is seeking a Senior Security Principal – Identity Security to join our global Cyber Security team.

You will act as a senior technical authority, shaping identity security strategy and providing hands-on leadership across enterprise authentication, IAM and governance initiatives. You will drive standards for Entra ID, AD and hybrid identity, while coordinating across security, cloud and applications teams to reduce risk and enable transformation.