Cybersecurity Manager - Enterprise Authentication Security Engineering (Remote)

The Home Depot; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

The Home Depot is seeking a Manager of Enterprise Authentication Security Engineering to oversee authentication for employees, apps, and workloads. You will lead the enterprise SSO stack centered on Microsoft Entra ID and build cloud-native services supporting millions of authentications daily.

You will mentor engineers, own L3 operations, implement production-grade services with IaC/CI-CD, and collaborate across security, infrastructure, and compliance to enforce strong authentication standards.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience implementing and operating enterprise authentication.
• Experience with DevOps practices and CI/CD pipelines.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Software development experience: ability to read/review code.
• Experience leading engineers or technical teams and coaching.
• Strong understanding of authentication/authorization protocols and security.
• Clear written and verbal communication across stakeholders.
• Track record of large-scale transformations with phased rollout.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of authentication security engineers.
• Own engineering and L3 operations for enterprise SSO platforms.
• Drive production-grade authentication services with IaC and CI/CD.
• Design and operate cloud authentication services with strong security.
• Collaborate with security, infra, apps, and compliance to implement standards.
• Manage incidents and drive blameless post-incident reviews.
• Communicate status, risks, and strategy to leadership.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Authentication security

Enterprise SSO

DevOps

Cloud platforms

Security fundamentals

Stakeholder comms

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Azure

AWS

GCP

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Position Purpose:

The Home Depot is looking to hire a Manager of Enterprise Authentication Security Engineering to lead the team that owns authentication for every employee, application, and workload. You will run the engineering organization behind our enterprise single sign-on platforms, centered on Microsoft Entra, and engineer cloud-native, reliably operated authentication services that support millions of authentications every day.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of authentication security engineers, setting clear goals and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
• Own engineering and L3 operations for enterprise SSO platforms, both commercial and homegrown.
• Drive engineering practices that treat authentication as a production service: infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and frequent, low-risk releases.
• Design and operate authentication services on cloud infrastructure with strong security, availability, and scalability characteristics.
• Partner with security architecture, infrastructure, application, and compliance teams to translate authentication standards (OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML) into secure, reusable solutions.
• Manage incidents and drive blameless post-incident reviews that lead to durable fixes.
• Communicate status, risks, and strategy to senior leadership and stakeholders.

What You Bring

• Hands-on experience implementing and operating enterprise single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID.
• Experience with DevOps practices and continuous release environments, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated deployment.
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and how to build secure, resilient services on it.
• Software development experience: while you won't be writing code, you should have prior experience and be able to read and review it.
• Experience leading engineers or leading technical teams, with the ability to coach, set priorities, and deliver results through others.
• Strong understanding of authentication and authorization protocols and security fundamentals.
• Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to work across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Track record of running large-scale transformations, including stakeholder alignment, phased rollout, and change management.

Nice to Have

• Experience with PingFederate, including migrating from or running it alongside Entra.
• Experience applying SRE practices to authentication: SLOs and error budgets, observability, capacity planning, and automated recovery.
• Familiarity with workload identity and non-human identity (NHI) authentication.
• Experience with platform engineering to support large-scale application onboarding, such as self-service tooling, templates, and paved-road patterns.

• Experience designing offline authentication, including how users and systems authenticate when connectivity to the identity provider is limited or unavailable.
• Experience with identity verification (identity proofing), including integrating verification services and assurance levels into authentication flows.

Key Responsibilities:

• 100% Deliver Execution, Plans & Aligns, Develop Others - Collaborate across teams to reduce vulnerabilities, risks and incident management; Drive execution of solution delivery; Guide teams in strategy, alignment, analysis and execution to ensure priorities objectives/deliverable are met; Provide leadership, mentoring and coaching to direct reports

Direct Manager/Direct Reports:

• This position typically reports to Sr. Manager or Director
• This position has 6-10 Direct Reports

Travel Requirements:

• No travel required.

Physical Requirements:

• Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.

Working Conditions:

• Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Must be eighteen years of age or older.
• Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 2+ years of previous leadership experience

Minimum Education:

• The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.

Minimum Years of Work Experience:

• 8+

Competencies:

• Decision Quality
• Drives Engagement
• Develops Talent
• Manages Conflict