Senior Identity Security Engineer – Enterprise Platforms

Motion Recruitment; Natick (MA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Benefits

Vision Benefits

Paid Time Off

401(k)

Job summary

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Principal Identity Security Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and security of enterprise identity services across a hybrid environment. You will drive authentication, authorization, and governance strategies while improving platform resilience and automation.

The role requires deep expertise in Active Directory, Entra ID, and privileged access management, with a focus on scalable identity patterns and secure, modern identity architectures.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in Identity and Access Management or related disciplines.
• Strong expertise with Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID.
• Experience designing and supporting hybrid identity environments.
• Deep understanding of authentication, authorization, federation, provisioning, and access management technologies.
• Experience securing privileged access environments and implementing identity security best practices.
• Experience with service principals, managed identities, certificates, secrets, and application permissions.
• Strong automation and scripting using modern engineering practices.
• Experience with APIs, Git-based workflows, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership for enterprise identity services and platforms.
• Design and enhance authentication, authorization, privileged access, and identity governance capabilities.
• Lead initiatives focused on identity security, platform hardening, and operational resilience.
• Improve automation, standardization, and reliability across identity infrastructure.
• Define scalable identity patterns and architectural guardrails for applications, cloud services, and automation platforms.
• Partner with security, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams to strengthen enterprise-wide identity controls.
• Support recovery planning, threat detection, and continuous improvement efforts across identity platforms.

Skills

Active Directory

Microsoft Entra ID

Hybrid identity

Privileged access management

Identity governance

Non-human identities

Automation scripting

APIs / Git workflows / CI/CD

Bachelor's degree

Education

Bachelor's degree in a related field

Tools

PowerShell

Python

Git

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Motion Recruitment is seeking a Principal Identity Security Engineer to lead the design, implementation, and security of enterprise identity services across a hybrid environment. You will drive authentication, authorization, and governance strategies while improving platform resilience and automation.

The role requires deep expertise in Active Directory, Entra ID, and privileged access management, with a focus on scalable identity patterns and secure, modern identity architectures.