IGA Identity Security Engineer — SailPoint & NERM

British Airways plc; Manor Park; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Staff travel benefits

Discounted airline tickets

Job summary

British Airways is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to strengthen SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC) and Non-Employee Risk Management (NERM) capabilities. You will partner with BA teams worldwide and report to the Cyber Security Engineering Manager.

You will develop, test, and integrate identity governance controls, stay current with attacker techniques, and help define threat-led security architecture that reduces risk while minimising operational overhead.

Qualifications

• Strong technical security skills and reference architectures.
• Experience with SailPoint Identity Security Cloud and Non-Employee Risk Management.
• Experience with integrations (AD, Entra ID, ServiceNow, identity sources).
• Ability to work with APIs, JSON, identity transforms, workflows, and scripting (PowerShell or Python).
• Experience with NIST or similar security frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build and support identity security capabilities within SailPoint ISC and NERM to mitigate threats to British Airways.
• Align SailPoint ISC and NERM engineering with a threat-led strategy to strengthen identity governance while minimising overhead.
• Maintain understanding of attacker techniques to ensure tools and capabilities remain effective.
• Proactively assess and improve SailPoint ISC and NERM configurations, workflows, integrations and controls.
• Keep up to date with identity governance, SailPoint developments and industry trends.
• Develop an understanding of functions across the organisation to ensure needs are met.

Skills

Identity security

Threat analysis

Analytical mindset

Communication

Prioritization

Tools

SailPoint ISC

NERM

Active Directory

Microsoft Entra ID

ServiceNow

PowerShell

Python

JSON

Job description

British Airways is seeking a Cyber Security Engineer to strengthen SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC) and Non-Employee Risk Management (NERM) capabilities. You will partner with BA teams worldwide and report to the Cyber Security Engineering Manager.

You will develop, test, and integrate identity governance controls, stay current with attacker techniques, and help define threat-led security architecture that reduces risk while minimising operational overhead.