Staff Identity and Access Management Engineer

Tanium; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Tanium seeks a Staff IAM engineer to design, implement, and manage IAM and IGA across its corporate infrastructure. You will evaluate new IAM/IGA technologies, partner with cross-functional teams, and keep our identity ecosystem secure, compliant, and efficient.

This hybrid role requires work in Reston, VA three days per week and offers a competitive base salary with equity and benefits. Your focus will be on lifecycle management, policy alignment, and incident response across the organization.

Qualifications

• 8–10 years in identity and access management, including IGA integrations with HRIS systems.
• Experience implementing, configuring, and managing an IGA product (Lumos, SailPoint, Saviynt, etc.).
• Hands-on expertise with Entra ID and Active Directory in a hybrid environment.
• Strong onboarding/offboarding standards and lifecycle workflows.
• PowerShell scripting and familiarity with security/compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR, HIPAA).

Responsibilities

• Design and manage IAM/IGA solutions across corporate infrastructure, including SSO, MFA, and PAM.
• Build identity automation for onboarding, off-boarding, entitlements, and approvals.
• Own the identity lifecycle and monitor/document improvements.
• Partner with GRC to develop IAM/IGA policies and standards for regulatory compliance.
• Assess IAM systems for security gaps and ensure patch and policy compliance.
• Lead technical delivery on IAM/IGA projects, upgrades, migrations, and integrations.
• Respond to and resolve IAM-related incidents.
• Mentor engineers across IT and Security and stay current with industry trends.
• Maintain comprehensive system design documentation.

Skills

IAM/IGA design

SSO MFA PAM

PowerShell scripting

Hybrid environment

Policy & compliance

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Lumos

SailPoint

Saviynt

Entra ID

Active Directory

Job description

The Basics

We're looking for a Staff IAM engineer to design, implement, and manage identity and access management (IAM) and identity governance (IGA) solutions across Tanium's corporate infrastructure. You'll evaluate new IAM/IGA technologies, partner with cross-functional teams on strategy, and keep our identity ecosystem secure, compliant, and efficient.

This position follows the Company's hybrid schedule which currently requires employees to work in the office at one of the following locations a minimum of three days per week: Addison, TX; Bellevue, WA; Durham, NC; Emeryville, CA; or Reston, VA.

What You'll Do

• Design and manage IAM/IGA solutions across corporate infrastructure, including SSO, MFA, and PAM


• Build and maintain identity automation - onboarding, off-boarding, entitlements, and approval workflows - and troubleshoot issues surfaced by testing, user, or peer feedback


• Own the identity lifecycle: monitor, document, and continuously improve it


• Partner with GRC to develop and maintain IAM/IGA policies and standards that satisfy regulatory requirements (ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR, HIPAA, etc.)


• Assess IAM systems regularly for security gaps and insure ongoing patch and policy compliance


• Lead technical delivery on IAM/IGA projects - upgrades, migrations, integrations - and monitor system performance to identify optimizations


• Respond to and resolve IAM-related incidents


• Mentor engineers across IT and Security and track industry trends to keep our IAM/IGA approach current


• Maintain system design documentation

We’re looking for someone with

• Education
  
  
  
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, IT or other relevant degree or equivalent work experience
  
  
  
  


• Experience
  
  
  
  • 8-10 years in identity and access management, including IGA integrations with HRIS systems (Workday, SuccessFactors, or similar)
  
  
  • Experience implementing, configuring, and managing an IGA product like Lumos, SailPoint, Saviynt, etc
  
  
  • Hands-on expertise with Entra ID and Active Directory (preferably in a hybrid environment) with respect to identity and access
  
  
  • Solid grasp of onboarding/off-boarding standards and lifecycle workflows
  
  
  • Scripting proficiency (PowerShell)
  
  
  • Working knowledge of security/compliance frameworks - ISO 27001, FedRAMP, GDPR, HIPAA
  
  
  • Experience with SSO, MFA, and PAM tooling
  
  
  • Strong problem-solving skills and the communication chops to work across IT, Security, and business teams
  
  
  
  


• Other
  
  
  
  • Comfortable working independently and juggling multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
  
  
  
  

About Tanium

Tanium delivers the industry's only true real-time cloud-based endpoint management and security offering. Its platform is real-time, seamless, and autonomous, allowing security-conscious organizations to break down silos between IT and Security operations that results in reduced complexity, cost, and risk. Securing more than 32M endpoints around the world, Tanium's customers include Fortune 100 organizations, top US retailers, top US commercial banks, and branches of the U.S. Military. It also partners with the world's biggest technology companies, system integrators, and managed service providers to help customers realize the full potential of their IT investments. Tanium has been named to the Forbes Cloud 100 list for nine consecutive years and ranks on the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For. For more information on The Power of Certainty™, visit www.tanium.com and follow us on LinkedIn and X.

On a mission. Together.

At Tanium, we are stewards of a culture that emphasizes the importance of collaboration, respect, and diversity. In our pursuit of revolutionizing the way some of the largest enterprises and governments in the world solve their most difficult IT challenges, we are strengthened by our unique perspectives and by our collective actions.

We are an organization with stakeholders around the world and its imperative that the diversity of our customers and communities is reflected internally in our team members. We strive to create a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone feels they have opportunities to succeed and grow because we know that only together can we do great things.

Each of our team members has 5 days set aside as volunteer time off (VTO) to contribute to the communities they live in and give back to the causes they care about most.

What You’ll Get

The annual base salary range for this full-time position is $180,000 to $230,000. This range is an estimate for what Tanium will pay a new hire. The actual annual base salary offered may be adjusted based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, location, education, skills, training, and experience.

In addition to an annual base salary, team members will receive equity awards and a generous benefits package consisting of medical, dental and vision plan, family planning benefits, health savings account, flexible spending account, transportation savings account, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, life, accident and disability coverage, business travel accident insurance, employee assistance programs, disability insurance, and other well‑being benefits.

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