Lead Authentication Engineer – Vice President, Cybersecurity Engineering

Overview

Lead Authentication Engineer for the Identity Access Management (IAM) team within Cyber Data Risk & Resilience, responsible for designing and operating enterprise authentication solutions.

What you'll do

• Design, build, integrate, and ship secure, scalable authentication solutions for human and non-human identities.
• Implement and harden authentication and federation capabilities including OIDC/OAuth2, SAML, SSO, FIDO2/WebAuthn, and PKI.
• Deliver end-to-end integrations across IAM and security platforms in cloud and hybrid environments.
• Operate and evolve large-scale IAM estates with HA/DR, performance tuning, and safe deployment strategies.
• Collaborate across teams and participate in on-call and RCAs to drive operational excellence.
• Translate architecture into executables such as epics, stories, runbooks, pipelines, ADRs, and standards.

What you'll need

• 12+ years of career experience with hands-on principal engineering (not architect-only) including coding/configuring/integration and production outcomes.
• Deep authentication expertise across OIDC/OAuth2, SAML, SSO, FIDO2/WebAuthn, PKI, API auth, and Unix/Linux authentication at enterprise scale.
• Experience with IAM platforms and integrations including HashiCorp Vault, HSMs, CyberArk, SailPoint, Entra ID, Ping Identity, IDM/LDAP, and RCBI.
• Experience operating IAM/auth services with multi-region HA/DR and automation using Terraform and configuration management tools.
• Security and compliance acumen including threat modeling, least privilege, PAM, secrets management, policy-as-code, and auditability for identities.
• Strong Shell plus Python/Go.
• 6+ years of relevant work experience.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India.