Athene
Financial Services
IdentityandApplicationSecurityLead
“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.
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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