Athene

Financial Services

IdentityandApplicationSecurityLead

West Des Moines, Iowa, United States FULL TIME
The Brief

“Identity and Application Security Lead at Athene. Skills: Identity and Application Security, AWS/Azure, IaC/CI/CD, Security Automation. Design and build security solutions. Define and maintain AWS and Azure identity infrastructure”

Industry & Context.

Financial Services

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

6+ years in security engineering, deep hands-on experience across both identity and application security, grasp of authentication and authorization primitives shared by both disciplines: OIDC, OAuth 2. 0, SAML, JWT, mTLS, certificate management, and API auth patterns, Depth in AWS and/or Azure, especially AWS IAM, cloud secrets management, privileged access, and Azure RBAC, hands-on with IaC and CI/CD: Terraform, CloudFormation, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Proficiency in one or more security automation languages e. g. Python, JS/TS, Go, Understanding of secure SDLC, OWASP Top 10, Experience designing identity controls for NHIs, workload identities, and AI agents / agentic workflows, Experience operating SAST, DAST SCA, and API security tooling and driving remediation with development teams

Nice to Have

Hands-on experience with Okta, Entra ID, SailPoint, CyberArk, GitHub Advanced Security, and/or Akamai API Security

What You'll Do.

Design and build security solutions

Define and maintain AWS and Azure identity infrastructure

Engineer and operate SSO

and access policy platforms

Implement identity frameworks for AI agents

Perform testing and validation of application security controls

Provide consulting to development teams

Perform threat modeling

Perform secure design review

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partner with Cloud Platform, Application Development, and Information Security; Provide consulting to development teams, developers and stakeholders; Driving the Security Guardians champions program

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