Identity & Cloud Security Engineer - IAM, Endpoint & SaaS

Athena; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Athena is seeking an Information Security Engineer to scale and mature its corporate security program in a fast-growing environment. This hands-on role focuses on IAM, endpoint security, SaaS security, and secure operations across cloud-first platforms.

The ideal candidate will be automation-minded, collaborate with IT, Engineering, HR, and Compliance, and help design secure systems while maintaining a strong employee experience. 4+ years in security is required.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in information security, security engineering, IT security, or related fields.
• Experience administering enterprise identity providers and access management systems.
• Experience with endpoint management and endpoint security tooling.
• Familiarity with security monitoring, logging, and incident response workflows.
• Strong understanding of authentication protocols and identity security concepts, including SAML, OIDC, OAuth, SCIM, MFA, conditional access, and RBAC.
• Experience working in cloud-first environments using modern SaaS platforms.
• Strong scripting or automation experience using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.
• Ability to balance security requirements with operational usability and business needs.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and improve identity and access management controls across enterprise applications and infrastructure.
• Manage and optimize SSO, MFA, lifecycle management, conditional access, RBAC, and privileged access workflows.
• Partner with IT and business stakeholders to implement least-privilege access models.
• Support onboarding, offboarding, and automated provisioning/deprovisioning workflows.
• Conduct periodic access reviews and help drive remediation efforts.
• Improve authentication security and identity posture across corporate systems.
• Secure and manage corporate endpoints across macOS, Windows, and cloud-managed environments.
• Improve endpoint visibility, hardening, monitoring, and response capabilities.
• Help implement and tune modern endpoint protection, browser security, device trust, and web/data protection controls.
• Partner with Infrastructure and IT teams on secure configuration standards and operational improvements.
• Support security initiatives related to enterprise SaaS applications and collaboration platforms.
• Assist with vendor and third-party security evaluations related to enterprise tooling.
• Assist with security monitoring, detection engineering, and incident response activities.
• Improve log visibility and telemetry coverage across identity, endpoint, and SaaS platforms.
• Build and maintain detections, alerts, and operational playbooks.
• Participate in incident investigations and post-incident remediation efforts.
• Help operationalize security metrics and reporting.
• Build automations and integrations that improve security operations efficiency.
• Develop scripts and workflows to reduce manual processes.
• Partner with Engineering and Infrastructure teams to improve security guardrails and operational maturity.
• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code initiatives where applicable.
• Support security compliance initiatives such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar frameworks.
• Help document technical controls, processes, and operational procedures.
• Participate in risk assessments and remediation tracking.
• Contribute to security awareness and internal enablement efforts.

Skills

Identity & access management

Endpoint security

Security monitoring

Scripting/automation

Tools

MDM/UEM

EDR

SIEM

Job description

Athena is seeking an Information Security Engineer to scale and mature its corporate security program in a fast-growing environment. This hands-on role focuses on IAM, endpoint security, SaaS security, and secure operations across cloud-first platforms.

The ideal candidate will be automation-minded, collaborate with IT, Engineering, HR, and Compliance, and help design secure systems while maintaining a strong employee experience. 4+ years in security is required.