Lead IAM Security Engineer — Incident Response & Cloud

Kelly Services; Charlotte (NC); On-site; USD 95,000 - 107,000; Full time

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners in Charlotte, NC seeks a Lead Information Security Engineer to protect and maintain IAM applications. You will lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and cross-team security initiatives across security, engineering, and operations.

The role emphasizes vulnerability management, monitoring, and cloud-enabled infrastructure with strong collaboration across multiple teams. This 6-month contract sits in a fast-paced financial services environment.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in Information Security Engineering or related roles.
• Strong background in vulnerability management and application security.
• Experience supporting enterprise applications in production.
• Hands-on involvement with major incident response and production troubleshooting.
• Strong understanding of logging, monitoring, telemetry, alerting, and observability.
• Experience supporting distributed, cloud-hosted, or highly available applications.
• Knowledge of production change, release, and implementation processes.
• Strong root cause analysis and technical problem-solving abilities.
• Ability to lead technical initiatives involving multiple engineering and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Assess security vulnerabilities and coordinate remediation activities with engineering teams.
• Provide senior-level support for production IAM applications.
• Lead technical troubleshooting during outages and critical incidents.
• Perform root cause analysis and drive corrective actions.
• Improve application monitoring, alerting, dashboards, and operational metrics.
• Help establish application health and reliability standards.
• Coordinate changes involving networking, databases, middleware, certificates, DNS, and cloud services.
• Support development, testing, staging, production, and disaster recovery environments.
• Review production changes for operational and security risk.
• Participate in disaster recovery testing and resiliency planning.
• Drive automation and operational process improvements.
• Communicate technical risks and recommendations to engineering leaders and stakeholders.

Skills

InfoSec engineering

Vulnerability management

Production support

Incident response

Observability / logging

Cloud-hosted apps

Change management

Root cause analysis

Lead cross-team initiatives

Tools

Azure

Kubernetes

OpenShift

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners in Charlotte, NC seeks a Lead Information Security Engineer to protect and maintain IAM applications. You will lead incident response, root-cause analysis, and cross-team security initiatives across security, engineering, and operations.

The role emphasizes vulnerability management, monitoring, and cloud-enabled infrastructure with strong collaboration across multiple teams. This 6-month contract sits in a fast-paced financial services environment.