Senior Identity Security Engineer - AI-Driven Access Remote

SportsTechJobs; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Scopely in London is seeking a Senior Identity Security Engineer to join our Information Security team on a remote basis or hybrid basis if located in Barcelona. You will build identity controls that reduce excessive privilege and protect critical operations across employee, player, business partner, and non-human identities.

The role requires hands-on work across AWS, GCP, Okta, AWS IAM Identity Center, Zero Trust, identity governance, and IaC with Terraform.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in IAM or identity-focused cloud/security engineering.
• Strong experience with Okta or comparable workforce identity platform and AWS/GCP IAM, federation and provisioning protocols such as SAML, OIDC, OAuth, and SCIM.
• Production experience building, testing, and operating identity services or automation using Terraform, Python, Go, or TypeScript, APIs, version control, and CI/CD.
• Strong knowledge of least privilege, just-in-time privileged access, identity lifecycle and governance.
• Experience threat-modeling identity architectures, integrations, and access paths, and remediation with service owners.
• Hands-on experience building AI-native workflows and multi-agent development; able to lead design through deployment.

Responsibilities

• Reduce identity attack surface and privilege with least-privilege roles and automated access reviews.
• Build repeatable identity and access workflows for onboarding, approvals, role changes, reviews, and offboarding.
• Govern non-human identities, including service accounts, workload identities, CI/CD identities, API credentials, and AI agents.
• Protect access to critical processes with phishing-resistant authentication and device posture signals.
• Threat-model identity platforms and access paths to identify exploitable trust relationships and privilege escalation.
• Design and test break-glass and recovery procedures for identity services and cloud access.
• Extend patterns to player and partner identities; measure progress via reduced standing privilege and unmanaged identities.

Skills

IAM engineering

Okta

AWS/GCP IAM

SAML/OIDC/OAuth/SCIM

Infrastructure as Code

Python/Go/TypeScript

Tools

Terraform

Python

Go

TypeScript

APIs

CI/CD

Job description

Scopely in London is seeking a Senior Identity Security Engineer to join our Information Security team on a remote basis or hybrid basis if located in Barcelona. You will build identity controls that reduce excessive privilege and protect critical operations across employee, player, business partner, and non-human identities.

The role requires hands-on work across AWS, GCP, Okta, AWS IAM Identity Center, Zero Trust, identity governance, and IaC with Terraform.