IAM Security & Reliability Lead Engineer

Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 197,713,000 - 223,502,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Rate: $69-$78/hour

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC in Irving, TX, seeks a Lead IAM Security & Reliability Engineer to own the security and reliability of enterprise IAM applications. You will operate at the intersection of cybersecurity, production engineering, and infrastructure to manage risk, remediation, and incident response.

This role emphasizes observability, monitoring, and cloud-native platforms, with responsibilities across vulnerability management, incident coordination, capacity planning, and platform

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of professional experience in security engineering, SRE, DevOps, platform engineering, application engineering, or a related field.
• Proven experience maintaining mission-critical applications
• Deep understanding of vulnerability identification, prioritization, remediation, and validation
• Strong application security and security risk assessment knowledge
• Experience directing or heavily participating in major production incidents
• Ability to troubleshoot complex application and infrastructure issues
• Working knowledge of operational telemetry, event monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Experience with enterprise release and change controls
• Background working with cloud-based and highly available systems
• Strong communication skills with the ability to coordinate teams during high-impact technical events

Responsibilities

• Own security and operational health initiatives across enterprise IAM applications
• Identify application, container, infrastructure, and open-source vulnerabilities
• Work with development teams to prioritize and complete security remediation
• Evaluate security risks and recommend technical controls
• Take command of technical triage during significant service interruptions
• Coordinate restoration efforts across application, infrastructure, and cybersecurity groups
• Analyze recurring production problems and eliminate underlying causes
• Establish meaningful reliability, incident, and vulnerability metrics
• Improve MTTD and MTTR across supported services
• Build stronger monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting capabilities
• Assist with capacity planning, failover design, traffic management, and load balancing
• Coordinate platform upgrades, environment maintenance, and infrastructure changes
• Validate implementation and rollback plans before major releases
• Help plan and execute disaster recovery exercises
• Promote automation and standardization throughout operational processes

Skills

Security engineering

SRE

DevOps

Platform engineering

Incident management

Observability

Cloud-based systems

Communication skills

Troubleshooting

Tools

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CI/CD

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners, LLC in Irving, TX, seeks a Lead IAM Security & Reliability Engineer to own the security and reliability of enterprise IAM applications. You will operate at the intersection of cybersecurity, production engineering, and infrastructure to manage risk, remediation, and incident response.

This role emphasizes observability, monitoring, and cloud-native platforms, with responsibilities across vulnerability management, incident coordination, capacity planning, and platform