IAM Platform Engineer — Build Secure Identity & Access

G-Research; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Lunch via Just Eat

Barista bar

35 days leave

Pension 9%

Healthcare

Life assurance

Cycle-to-work

Company events

Job summary

G-Research is seeking an experienced IAM Platform Engineer to own authentication, identity federation, credential management and privileged access platforms. You will modernise identity infrastructure with scalable, standards-based IAM services that are secure and easy for engineering teams to consume.

You will shape the future of authentication and privileged access within a leading quantitative research firm, tackling large-scale engineering challenges rather than traditional operational IAM.

Qualifications

• Experience engineering and operating enterprise IAM platforms.
• Experience with enterprise identity providers such as PingFederate, PingAM, Microsoft Entra ID or Okta.
• Strong understanding of authentication, authorisation, Active Directory, LDAP and privileged access management.
• Experience applying modern platform engineering practices, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automation and observability.
• Software engineering experience in languages such as C#, Java, Python or Go.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing and supporting enterprise authentication and identity federation services.
• Developing standard onboarding patterns for applications using SAML, OAuth2 and OpenID Connect.
• Improving and rationalising our identity provider estate, including PingFederate, PingAM and cloud identity platforms.
• Engineering secure privileged access solutions using Teleport and Just-in-Time access principles.
• Defining standards for service accounts, certificates, secrets and machine identities.
• Building APIs and automation to simplify identity platform operations.
• Partnering with engineering teams to deliver reusable, secure authentication services.
• Improving operational maturity through monitoring, alerting, logging, documentation and automation.
• Supporting migration away from bespoke authentication implementations towards enterprise IAM standards.

Skills

IAM platforms

Platform engineering

CI/CD

Automation

Observability

Tools

PingFederate

PingAM

Microsoft Entra ID

Okta

Kubernetes

Job description

G-Research is seeking an experienced IAM Platform Engineer to own authentication, identity federation, credential management and privileged access platforms. You will modernise identity infrastructure with scalable, standards-based IAM services that are secure and easy for engineering teams to consume.

You will shape the future of authentication and privileged access within a leading quantitative research firm, tackling large-scale engineering challenges rather than traditional operational IAM.