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 or Remote 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 all company 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 managing identity and access management solutions. You will be responsible for safeguarding our systems, applications, and data by ensuring secure user access, authentication, and authorization mechanisms.

A Security engineers work may include reviewing reports from various sources (automated scanners, employee reports, logs, etc.), managing and configuring automated tooling (Terraform, Open Policy Agent, Workers, etc.), building controls to enforce policy (two factor authentication requirements, role based access, etc), creating tools, reports or platforms to support the team's goals. 

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 with Identity and Access Management policy application and enforcement
• Experience designing, implementing, and managing IAM solutions
• Experience working with Open Policy Agent
• Experience working in DevOps / DevSecOps 
• Experience working with configuration management tools like Terraform, Ansible, etc.
• Experience working with Information Technology platforms and systems
• Experience with SaaS security (Google Workspace, Salesforce, Workday, Atlassian, etc.)
• Experience in configuration, troubleshooting and maintenance of network security infrastructure (Web content filtering, Firewall, IDS and DLP controls)
• Experience with API gateways and API security
• Experience with Zero Trust security
• Experience in secure configuration of cloud-based storage and data management systems
• Experience with secure configuration of containerized application platforms (e.g. Kubernetes)
• Advanced programming experience (Python, TypeScript, Bash, 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 and reliability for free, so