IAM Security & Reliability Lead Engineer

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC; Irving (TX); On-site; USD 95,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC in Irving, TX is seeking a Lead IAM Security & Reliability Engineer to own the security and stability of a critical IAM application portfolio. You will lead vulnerability remediation, incident coordination, and platform reliability across cloud-based, highly available systems.

The role requires deep expertise in security engineering, SRE/DevOps, and strong communication to coordinate multiple teams during high-impact events.

Qualifications

• At least 7 years of professional experience in security engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related field.
• Experience with vulnerability remediation, incident response, and platform reliability.
• Experience with cloud-based and highly available systems.
• Strong communication and cross-team coordination.

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

Incident management

Observability

Cloud engineering

Troubleshooting

Communication

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

OpenShift

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners LLC in Irving, TX is seeking a Lead IAM Security & Reliability Engineer to own the security and stability of a critical IAM application portfolio. You will lead vulnerability remediation, incident coordination, and platform reliability across cloud-based, highly available systems.

The role requires deep expertise in security engineering, SRE/DevOps, and strong communication to coordinate multiple teams during high-impact events.