Information Security Engineer - Ph
athena
📍 Remote🌐 Remote🕐 3mo ago🔗 workday
Job Description
**About the Role**
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We are looking for an Information Security Engineer to help scale and mature our corporate security program in a fast-moving, high-growth environment. This role will focus on identity and access management, endpoint security, SaaS security, corporate infrastructure security, and security operations enablement.
The ideal candidate is hands-on, automation-minded, and comfortable partnering across IT, Engineering, Infrastructure, HR, and Compliance teams to improve security controls while maintaining a strong employee experience.
You will help design and operate security systems that protect corporate assets, secure employee access, improve visibility, and reduce organizational risk across cloud-first and SaaS-heavy environments.
**Responsibilities**
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**Identity & Access Management**
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* Design, implement, and improve identity and access management controls across enterprise applications and infrastructure.
* Manage and optimize SSO, MFA, lifecycle management, conditional access, RBAC, and privileged access workflows.
* Partner with IT and business stakeholders to implement least-privilege access models.
* Support onboarding, offboarding, and automated provisioning/deprovisioning workflows.
* Conduct periodic access reviews and help drive remediation efforts.
* Improve authentication security and identity posture across corporate systems.
**Corporate Security Engineering**
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* Secure and manage corporate endpoints across macOS, Windows, and cloud-managed environments.
* Improve endpoint visibility, hardening, monitoring, and response capabilities.
* Help implement and tune modern endpoint protection, browser security, device trust, and web/data protection controls.
* Partner with Infrastructure and IT teams on secure configuration standards and operational improvements.
* Support security initiatives related to enterprise SaaS applications and collaboration platforms.
* Assist with vendor and third-party security evaluations related to enterprise tooling.
**Security Operations & Monitoring**
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* Assist with security monitoring, detection engineering, and incident response activities.
* Improve log visibility and telemetry coverage across identity, endpoint, and SaaS platforms.
* Build and maintain detections, alerts, and operational playbooks.
* Participate in incident investigations and post-incident remediation efforts.
* Help operationalize security metrics and reporting.
**Automation & Engineering**
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* Build automations and integrations that improve security operations efficiency.
* Develop scripts and workflows to reduce manual processes.
* Partner with Engineering and Infrastructure teams to improve security guardrails and operational maturity.
* Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code initiatives where applicable.
**Compliance & Security Programs**
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* Support security compliance initiatives such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar frameworks.
* Help document technical controls, processes, and operational procedures.
* Participate in risk assessments and remediation tracking.
* Contribute to security awareness and internal enablement efforts.
**Qualifications**
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**Required**
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* 4+ years of experience in information security, security engineering, IT security, or related fields.
* Experience administering enterprise identity providers and access management systems.
* Experience with endpoint management and endpoint security tooling.
* Familiarity with security monitoring, logging, and incident response workflows.
* Strong understanding of authentication protocols and identity security concepts, including SAML, OIDC, OAuth, SCIM, MFA, conditional access, and RBAC.
* Experience working in cloud-first environments using modern SaaS platforms.
* Strong scripting or automation experience using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.
* Ability to balance security requirements with operational usability and business needs.
* Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
**Preferred**
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* Experience securing macOS environments at scale.
* Experience with modern browser security and data protection technologies.
* Experience with cloud-native security monitoring or SIEM platforms.
* Familiarity with MDM/UEM platforms, EDR solutions, identity governance, and SaaS security tools.
* Experience implementing automation around identity lifecycle management.
* Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code or cloud security practices.
* Experience in high-growth startup or enterprise environments.
* Security certifications such as Security+, CISSP, GIAC, identity provider certifications, endpoint management certifications, or equivalent.