Senior CIAM Engineer

Aegon UK; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 39,000 - 49,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial services provider is seeking a Senior CIAM Engineer to provide expertise on identity and security solutions. The role involves developing CIAM strategies using tools such as Okta and IBM Security Access Manager. Candidates should have strong project management skills and experience with various security technologies. The position offers competitive salary, remote working options, and substantial benefits including a generous pension scheme and performance bonuses.

Benefits

Enhanced pension scheme

Discretionary bonus

34 days leave including bank holidays

Private medical cover

Lifestyle benefits including retail discounts

Qualifications

• Experience with IBM Security Access Manager and Okta Auth0.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication, and project management skills.
• Knowledge of DNS, networking, Java/.NET, cloud, and scripting.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain CIAM strategies utilizing Okta and IBM ISAM.
• Support and enhance CIAM integrations across platforms.
• Provide technical expertise focusing on automation and process improvement.

Skills

Experience with IBM Security Access Manager

Strong troubleshooting skills

Project management skills

Knowledge of scripting (JSON, PowerShell)

Understanding of access management

Expertise in SAML and OpenID

Strategic thinking

Tools

Okta

Ping

IBM ISAM

Terraform

Job description

Senior CIAM Engineer

Permanent

Location: UK Remote

Expected starting salary: £39,120 - £48,900

Closing date: 20th January 2026

Enterprise Technology is Aegon s global IT partner that provides infrastructure services, information security and global/corporate application support for Aegon s businesses around the world. From 6 locations in the US, the Netherlands, UK, and Hungary, we support 20+ country units and 24000+ employees in the world. Our support consists of a wide range of centralised global IT services such as programming, database management, project management, agile/DevOps, and more.

We continue to maximise the value from having a clear digital and data technology platform strategy that extends our ecosystem, as an approach to digitisation, enhancing customer experience, and improving operational efficiency.

All these teams work closely together to provide innovative and digital solutions as well as critical technology support. This is essential for enabling Aegon s businesses around the globe to be innovative, digital, and competitive, efficient, and effective, and to provide the best solutions and customer experience for our customers and shareholders.

As Senior CIAM (Customer Identity and Access Management) Engineer, you will provide expert consultancy on identity, directory and security solutions, with a focus on platforms such as IBM Security Access Manager and Okta. You will oversee the design and support of web and identity infrastructure, including SharePoint, WebSphere, IIS, Tomcat and Apache – ensuring secure, integrated and resilient services. You will also cover internet security, third‑party integrations, domain and SSL management and the creation of clear technical documentation.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain CIAM strategies utilising Okta, Ping, IBM ISAM and Federation Services.
• Support, document and enhance CIAM integrations across platforms.
• Provide technical expertise, with a focus on automation and process improvement.
• Deliver complex solutions independently, with minimal oversight.
• Uphold service level agreements (SLAs) and optimise the performance of web services.
• Ensure compliance with security standards and regulatory requirements.

Working Hours

This role requires non‑standard working hours (2:00 PM – 10:00 PM BST) to effectively collaborate with global teams across multiple time zones.

We’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Experience with IBM Security Access Manager and Okta Auth0.
• Strong troubleshooting, communication and project management skills.
• Knowledge of DNS, networking, Java/.NET, cloud and scripting (JSON, PowerShell, Ansible, Java, Terraform).
• Understanding of access management, PKI and security technologies.
• Expertise in SAML, OpenID, OAuth, federation and hybrid cloud.
• Experience with ISAM/WebSEAL, cloud identity and automation.
• Strategic thinking and zero‑trust familiarity.

What’s in it for you?

• We’re serious about your future and our enhanced pension scheme is now in place. We ask you to contribute 3% of your salary to your pension and we’ll put in 9%. If you decide to contribute more, we’ll match it up to a combined total of 20% of your salary (that’s 7% from you and 13% from us).
• A discretionary bonus, depending on personal and company performance.
• 34 days leave per year (including bank holidays, pro‑rated for part‑time).

We also offer private medical cover, life assurance, critical illness cover, enhanced parental leave and a variety of lifestyle benefits to help our employees live their best lives, including retail discount vouchers, cycle2work scheme, subsidised restaurant and online GP appointments. To find out more about what to expect at Aegon click here.

Ready to take your career to the next level? Apply now!

The legal bits

We’ll need you to confirm you have the right to work in the UK. If we offer you a job and you accept, there are some checks we need to complete before you can start with us. This will include a credit and criminal record check as well as providing satisfactory references.

Cifas Short Fair Processing Notice (applies to UK based candidates only).

The personal information we have collected from you will be shared with Cifas who will use it to prevent fraud, other unlawful or dishonest conduct, malpractice and other seriously improper conduct. If any of these are detected, you could be refused certain services or employment. Your personal information will also be used to verify your identity. Further details of how your information will be used by us and Cifas, and your data protection rights, can be found by visiting www.cifas.org.uk/fpn.