Senior Director, Identity & Access Management

About Us

At Cloudflare, we have our eyes set on an ambitious goal: to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers approximately 25 million 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: Remote US or Austin, Texas or Lisbon, Portugal

About the role 

The Director of Identity and Access Management will establish and lead the development of a robust identity and access management program and team to support employees, contractors, and consultants accessing Cloudflare resources. Enhance the security program, ensuring regulatory compliance, optimizing access, and strengthening the enterprise security posture by identifying and implementing cutting-edge identity and access management practices and technologies. Work collaboratively with stakeholders and establish identity management governance and administration practices and technologies.  

What You’ll Do

Lead our identity and access management program, technologies, and operational team.  Develop and drive comprehensive identity and access management strategies, roadmaps, innovation, resourcing, and budgeting aligned with Cloudflare’s Security goals and objectives.  Partner with stakeholders across the organization to understand and develop the identity and access management standards, processes, and policies in alignment with regulatory controls.  Track industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure the program remains innovative and effective.  

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge and experience.

• Effective communicator. 
• Expertise managing identities and access across a federated environment with various external entities. 
• Experience developing, engineering, architecting, and leading identity and access management operations and technologies.
• Experience building and leading high-performing teams.
• Experience with identity and access management platforms and best practices.
• Experience developing and complying with policies, standards, and processes. 
• Experience in key IAM concepts and technologies (e.g. least privilege, privileged access, segregation of duties, role based access controls, attribute based access controls, conditional access, authentication, authorization, federation, multi-factor authentication, user provisioning, user attestation, secrets management, zero trust, and user lifecycle workflows).  
• Experience managing authentication and authorization of user, device, and application identities.
• Experience managing a global team in multiple time zones. 
• Ability to influence and motivate cross functional teams.

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 that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration.

Path Forward Partnership: Since 2016, we have partnered with Path Forward, a nonpro