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Senior Identity Security Engineer Private Sector

Type: Contract Location: Dublin, Hybrid Salary:

What’s Involved

  • Own identity security architecture, standards, and policies across Active Directory, Microsoft Entra, PAM, and IAM/IGA platforms.
  • Lead the design and governance of identity lifecycle management (joiners/movers/leavers, RBAC, certifications, segregation of duties) with automation at the core.
  • Establish and mature a Zero Trust-aligned identity reference architecture, embedding preventive, detective, and responsive controls.
  • Drive security posture management and hardening of AD and Entra, treating identity as critical enterprise infrastructure.
  • Engineer and govern IAM workflows (e.g. SailPoint) covering provisioning, deprovisioning, access reviews, and role models.

What’s Needed

  • 12+ years’ industry experience, including 8+ years in hands-on identity security or IAM engineering roles.
  • Deep enterprise experience securing and governing Active Directory and Microsoft Entra (Azure AD).
  • Proven track record designing and implementing identity lifecycle and privileged access management controls.
  • Strong knowledge of IAM principles including least privilege, RBAC, access reviews, segregation of duties, and lifecycle governance.
  • Experience implementing Zero Trust identity patterns and secure-by-design authentication/authorisation models.
  • Engineering capability across leading identity platforms such as SailPoint, CyberArk, BeyondTrust, Microsoft Defender for Identity, CrowdStrike Identity, or Silverfort, with automation skills (PowerShell or similar).

What’s on offer:

  • Competitive Daily Rate

Interested?