IAM Engineer

Insight Global; Dacorum; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm is seeking an experienced IAM Engineer to join a major manufacturing client in the UK. This role involves designing and securing enterprise identity platforms like Microsoft Active Directory. The ideal candidate should have extensive IAM experience, problem-solving skills, and familiarity with cloud technologies. The position offers the chance to lead standardisation and automation efforts to enhance user experience across global systems.

Qualifications

• Senior experience as an IAM Engineer with extensive experience in Active Directory.
• Experience on directory modernizations, integrations, migrations, and identity management.
• Highly skilled using PowerShell throughout their career.

Responsibilities

• Design, operation, and security of enterprise identity platforms.
• Ensure availability and integrity of hybrid identity services.
• Drive standardisation and automation of identity solutions.

Skills

Active Directory

Identity management

PowerShell

Problem resolution

Security best practices

Agile methodology

Root cause analysis

Cloud platforms (Azure/AWS)

Database experience (SQL)

Tools

Quest Change Auditor

Dynatrace

Job description

Insight Global is looking for an IAM Engineer to join one of our largest manufacturing clients. We are looking for a hands‑on subject matter expert responsible for the design, operation, and security of our clients enterprise identity platforms such as including Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD). This role ensures the availability, performance, and integrity of hybrid identity services that enable secure authentication, authorisation, and single sign‑on across global business systems. This candidate will be driving standardisation, automation, enforces security, compliance controls, and leads incident, problem, and change management for directory services and associated integrations. Partnering closely with internal stakeholders and operations teams, this role delivers roadmap initiatives, remediates risk, and enhances user experience through reliable, scalable, and audit‑ready identity solutions. The ideal candidate blends deep technical expertise with strong communication and service ownership in a fast‑paced, 24x7 environment.

Must haves:

• Senior experience as an IAM Engineer with extensive experience in Active Directory and a background in enterprise‑level companies
• Previously worked on directory modernizations, integrations, migrations and general admin tasks such as identity management
• Experience using Quest Change Auditor and Dynatrace
• Highly skilled using PowerShell throughout their whole career
• Comfortable completing root cause analysis of issues and decisively leads problem resolution
• Experience in security best practices and compliancy requirements for area of expertise
• Familiarity with cloud platforms (E.g. Azure or AWS,) and large database experience (E.g SQL)
• Experience working within an Agile methodology

Plusses:

• Previous experience in the manufacturing industry