Remote Senior IAM Engineer & Identity Security Architect

Relativity; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 130,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Parental leave

Flexible work

Two weeks breaks

Job summary

Relativity is seeking a Senior IAM Engineer to lead enterprise IAM strategy and anchor identity as a core control plane in a defense‑in‑depth program. You will own architecture, strategy, and operational maturity of AI‑enabled identity technologies across the workforce, customer, and non‑human identities.

Partner with Security leadership to reduce the identity attack surface, set engineering standards, mentor teams, and elevate detection and response capabilities for identity‑driven threats in a

Qualifications

• Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of hands‑on experience in enterprise IAM or security engineering, with deep specialization in identity, authentication, and access domains, or a Master's degree in Cybersecurity or a relevant field with 6+ years of experience.
• Expert, hands‑on experience architecting and operating identity platforms across IdP/SSO (Okta, Entra ID/Azure AD, Ping), IGA (SailPoint, Saviynt), and PAM (CyberArk, BeyondTrust), with advanced knowledge of authentication and federation protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM, LDAP, Kerberos).
• Demonstrated experience leading identity threat detection, complex access investigations, and detection‑engineering efforts, including designing automation for access enforcement and observability.
• Working command of industry‑standard security benchmarks and frameworks (MITRE, NIST 800‑63, Zero Trust) and the ability to translate them into technical controls.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting/automation language (Python, Bash, or PowerShell) applied to containerized services, CLI‑based commands, and identity‑specific use cases (API‑driven provisioning, policy‑as‑code).
• Proven ability to mentor engineers and communicate technical strategy and findings clearly to engineering peers, leadership, and non‑technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Design identity architecture spanning workforce, machine, and workload identity, mapping layered controls to relevant frameworks as a core tier of defense‑in‑depth.
• Design and advance continuous adaptive trust capabilities (continuous access evaluation (CAE), risk‑based and phishing‑resistant authentication, and signal‑driven session revocation) as the maturation of the enterprise Zero Trust architecture.
• Engineer and optimize ZTNA, least‑privilege micro‑segmentation, MFA/FIDO2, and JIT access across access paths.
• Design and optimize SSO, federation, and authentication standards (SAML, OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SCIM, Kerberos, LDAP) across SaaS and multi‑cloud environments.
• Define and tune hardening standards using CIS Benchmarks/DISA STIGs with automated compliance validation.

Skills

Access Management

Application Security

Endpoint Security

Network Security

Penetration Testing

Security Architecture Design

Security Information

SIEM

Security Operations

Vulnerability Management

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science, Information Security, or equivalent experience

Master's degree in Cybersecurity or a relevant field

Job description

Relativity is seeking a Senior IAM Engineer to lead enterprise IAM strategy and anchor identity as a core control plane in a defense‑in‑depth program. You will own architecture, strategy, and operational maturity of AI‑enabled identity technologies across the workforce, customer, and non‑human identities.

Partner with Security leadership to reduce the identity attack surface, set engineering standards, mentor teams, and elevate detection and response capabilities for identity‑driven threats in a