Remote Senior IAM Engineer — Entra ID & AD Expert

Beacon Hill; Phoenix (AZ); Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

Paid leave programs

Job summary

Beacon Hill is seeking a Senior Authentication / Identity Security Engineer to design, implement, and enhance enterprise authentication platforms. You will own Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory environments, secure AI and non-human identities, and lead cross-functional engineering initiatives.

A deep understanding of authentication protocols and security architecture is required, with a track record of technical leadership.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of hands-on experience in IAM, authentication engineering, identity security, or related security engineering.
• Strong experience with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) in enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise in Active Directory, authentication security, and hybrid identity.
• Experience securing AI identities, agents, or automated workloads.
• Experience managing service accounts, service principals, or workload identities.
• Solid understanding of authentication protocols, federation, access controls, and security best practices.
• Experience designing and supporting scalable enterprise identity platforms.
• Ability to lead engineers, set technical standards, and collaborate across teams.
• Strong troubleshooting and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and enhance enterprise authentication and identity security solutions.
• Engineer and support Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory environments.
• Support AI Identity Management and Non-Human Identity security initiatives.
• Lead authentication-related projects, including password security and NHI observability.
• Establish engineering standards and improve platform security, performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and engineering teams on identity architecture and platform improvements.

Skills

Identity & Access Management

Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD)

Active Directory

AI Identity Management

Non-Human Identity (NHI)

Authentication Engineering

Security Architecture

Technical Leadership

Troubleshooting & problem-solving

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

AWS IAM Identity Center (AWS SSO)

SailPoint Identity Security Cloud (ISC)

Job description

Beacon Hill is seeking a Senior Authentication / Identity Security Engineer to design, implement, and enhance enterprise authentication platforms. You will own Microsoft Entra ID and Active Directory environments, secure AI and non-human identities, and lead cross-functional engineering initiatives.

A deep understanding of authentication protocols and security architecture is required, with a track record of technical leadership.