[Hiring] Senior Manager, Identity and Access Management @Delinea

Role Description

Delinea’s Cybersecurity organization is seeking an experienced Senior Manager, Identity and Access Management to build, implement, and mature Delinea’s IAM program and architecture across the enterprise. The ideal candidate will be highly collaborative, working alongside Security Engineering and Operations, IT, and Product Engineering teams to define how identity is governed, provisioned, and secured at Delinea.

The Senior Manager, IAM will embrace the opportunity to work across diverse platforms and a variety of tools, including Entra ID, Active Directory, AWS IAM, Okta, and StrongDM, and will play a key role as we continually improve our identity capabilities over time. They’ll lead a small team of talented and dedicated IAM engineers to achieve our security objectives.

This is a challenging and impactful role with the opportunity to work with both internal and external stakeholders. The candidate must be able to balance the right level of access with business objectives, communicate clearly with technical as well as non-technical audiences, and work to creatively solve complex problems.

This role reports to the Sr. Director of Enterprise Security, is based in the US, and is fully remote.

What You'll Do

• Lead the design and implementation of Delinea’s IAM program and reference architecture, spanning workforce identity, application access, privileged access, and cloud entitlements.
• Provide technical expertise and shape the procedural and programmatic structure of our identity capabilities.
• Build and lead a team of IAM engineers, setting expectations on performance, goals, and objectives, and providing mentorship and guidance to team members.
• Own the joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle, including automated provisioning and deprovisioning, role-based access design, and integration between HR, directory, and application systems.
• Own Delinea’s core identity platforms and directories, including Entra ID, Active Directory, and Okta, covering single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, conditional access, and federation and provisioning standards such as SAML, OIDC, and SCIM.
• Own privileged and infrastructure access, including AWS IAM roles, policies, and permission boundaries, cloud entitlement management, and StrongDM-brokered access to production servers, databases, and Kubernetes environments.
• Act as a subject matter expert on identity and access management best practices, standards, and emerging approaches such as Zero Trust, passwordless authentication, and identity threat detection and response.
• Build relationships across organizational boundaries to ensure that identified access risks are remediated and lessons learned are captured.
• Ensure that the IAM program meets Delinea’s compliance and customer commitments, such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, PCI DSS, and FedRAMP.
• Communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels, translating technical findings into actionable insights and recommendations for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Work with Cybersecurity Program Management to define the metrics that measure program effectiveness and report on them to executive leadership on a regular cadence.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Cybersecurity, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 8+ years of demonstrated, hands-on identity and access management experience across directory services, authentication, and access governance.
• 4+ years of that time building and leading IAM or security engineering teams and developing junior talent.
• Deep hands-on experience administering Entra ID and Active Directory, including hybrid identity and directory synchronization, conditional access, group policy, and domain services.
• Hands-on experience with Okta or a comparable IDaaS platform, including SSO and MFA policy design, lifecycle management, and application integrations.
• Experience with AWS IAM at scale, including roles, policies, permission boundaries, IAM Identity Center, and least-privilege review of cloud entitlements.
• Experience with modern privileged and infrastructure access tooling such as StrongDM.
• Working knowledge of federation and provisioning standards, including SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SCIM.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language, such as Python, Go, or PowerShell.
• Strong verbal and written communication, analytical and people skills.

Requirements

• One or more of the following certifications: CISSP, SC-300 (Microsoft Identity and Access Administrator), Okta Certified Professional or Administrator, AWS Certified Security – Specialty, IDPro CIDPRO, or equivalent.
• Experience working with high-security environments subject to regulations such as FedRAMP or ITAR.
• Experience deploying or operating privileged access management and secrets management solutions, including Delinea products or comparable platforms.
• Experience using AI and LLM-based agents and tooling in an identity context to enhance access review, entitlement analysis, and identity reporting.

Benefits

• Competitive salaries.
• Meaningful bonus program.
• Excellent benefits, including healthcare insurance.
• Pension/retirement matching.
• Comprehensive life insurance.
• Employee assistance program.
• Time off plans.
• Paid company holidays.

Company Description

Delinea is the identity security platform that continuously controls what AI agents, humans and machines can do and for how long. It extends privileged access management from the point of access to the moment of action, using just-in-time authorization to reduce standing privilege across on-premises, multi-cloud and short-lived infrastructure, without adding friction for legitimate users.