IAM Security Engineer

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company. 

We realize people do not fit into neat boxes. We are looking for curious and empathetic individuals who are committed to developing themselves and learning new skills, and we are ready to help you do that. We cannot complete our mission without building a diverse and inclusive team. We hire the best people based on an evaluation of their potential and support them throughout their time at Cloudflare. Come join us! 

Available Locations: Lisbon, Portugal.

About the Department
The Identity and Access Management (IAM) team is dedicated to ensuring the secure and efficient management of user identities, access privileges, and authentication mechanisms across internal systems, applications, and data. Our mission is to safeguard the organization against unauthorized access, protect sensitive information, and enable seamless user experiences while adhering to industry best practices and compliance standards.

About the Role

As an Identity and Access Management (IAM) Security Engineer, you will play a crucial role in designing, implementing, and scaling identity and access management solutions for Cloudflare’s internal workforce and workloads. You will be responsible for safeguarding our systems, applications, and data by ensuring secure user access, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.

What You’ll Do

• Design, build, test, and deploy IAM solutions across authentication, authorization, and accounting 
• Leverage Cloudflare products to secure our identities
• Build SSO integrations leveraging SAML, OIDC, OAuth, and SCIM
• Build and manage the Identity Governance and Administration platform
• Develop automated roles leveraging RBAC and ABAC
• Build and manage an access certification platform 
• Build and manage a Priviliged Accss Management (PAM) platform
• Provide operational support of IAM systems including an on-call rotation that may include after hours calls

Desirable skills, knowledge and experience

Security engineers take part in a wide variety of tasks and projects in the team. One individual is not expected to know everything, but a working knowledge in several of the following areas is required: 

• Strong understanding of identity federation (SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, etc.)
• Experience implementing Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) solutions including lifecycle management, SCIM, birthright access (RBAC, ABAC), and access certifications
• Experience with secure configuration of containerized application platforms (e.g. Kubernetes)
• Advanced scripting experience (Python, TypeScript, Bash, etc.)
• Experience implementing Zero Trust controls
• Experience integrating with applications and SaaS solutions 
• Experience with Identity and Access Management policy application and enforcement
• Experience working with Identity Threat Detection & Response (ITDR)
• Experience working with infrastructure as code and configuration management tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc.

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: We equip politically and artistically important organizations and journalists with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: We created Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection