Head of Enterprise Identity and Access Management Engineering

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Cruise is seeking an Engineering Manager to lead the Identity and Access Management (IAM) team. As an experienced people and engineering leader in this role, you will build, grow and manage a team of engineers responsible for adding internal customer-facing features and bringing creative solutions to Cruise Identity Management systems. You will ensure our IAM platform and solutions are scalable and secure to meet our future growth and requirements of business domains. You have a passion for building agile teams that effectively plan & execute work and collaborate with broader cross-functional teams to successfully deliver mission-critical projects. You will build partnerships with other Security and engineering leaders, team members, and vendors to scale our global IAM capabilities across the organization. 

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the strategic technical planning, design and delivery of Identity & Access Management solutions and capabilities at Cruise.

• Architect and drive the next generation of our IAM solutions with a focus on zero trust

• Establish SLAs, governance processes, best practices and mitigation procedures across development lifecycle and sustainment for all IAM services

• Identify and establish procedures to ensure the business continuity, confidentiality and integrity of identity data services

• Develop and implement success-driven solutions that align with Enterprise goals and provide the desired outcomes.

• Drive engineering efforts and manage the execution of programs / projects.

• Define ambitious, measurable goals and objectives; identity metrics and solutions that show impact and progress over time

• Develops and implements automation workflows to facilitate user provisioning, deprovisioning and access control 

• Collaborate with the different teams including Engineering, Legal, Operations, HR and Security solving the unique challenges of securing our environment and ensuring alignment on shared goals.

• Develop and maintain documentation for configurations, processes, designs and standard operating procedures

What you must have:

• Has 7+ years of IAM solutions and engineering experience, with 3+ years in managerial or technical leadership role

• Experience in enterprise infrastructure technologies (systems design and architecture, application service management)

• A demonstrable track record of implementing enterprise level scalable IAM systems and solutions e.g. user provisioning / deprovisioning, access control, user flow authentication, federation, etc.

• Experience on IAM and Security products related to authentication, authorization, SSO, MFA, SIEM and/or enterprise security protocols like SAML, OpenID, OAuth, API Access Management

• Experience with cloud-based users directory administration and integration, including an understanding of group nesting, multi-domain environments, security groups

• Experience in leading teams, managing both delivery and operations of platforms

• Experience in CI/CD, DevOps, change management and ability to drive and engage in deep technical troubleshooting

• Understanding of Directory Services, LDAP Operations, ACL/ACI management

• Having an understanding and experience with data monitoring and analytics platform

• Experience with automation and scripting e.g. Powershell, Python

Bonus Points:

• Experience with Okta Platform

• Experience with containerization and orchestration (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)

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