Agentic Identity with Zero Trust Security Architect Principal

Job Summary

We are seeking an experienced Identity and Zero Trust Security Architect to design and implement secure identity architectures for modern cloud environments, with a focus on agentic AI systems, identity governance, and Zero Trust security principles.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement identity security architectures aligned with Zero Trust principles.

• Develop identity and access management (IAM) strategies for human users, applications, service accounts, and AI agents.

• Define secure authentication, authorization, and access control frameworks.

• Implement least-privilege access, role-based access control (RBAC), and attribute-based access control (ABAC).

• Design identity lifecycle management, privileged access management (PAM), and identity governance solutions.

• Develop security frameworks for agentic AI systems, including secure agent authentication, authorization, credential management, and access monitoring.

• Integrate identity solutions with cloud platforms, enterprise applications, APIs, and security tools.

• Establish identity threat detection, access monitoring, and audit controls.

• Collaborate with cloud, infrastructure, application, and cybersecurity teams to implement secure architectures.

• Develop architecture documentation, security standards, and implementation guidelines.

Required Skills

• 5–7 years of experience in cybersecurity, IAM, security architecture, or related fields.

• Strong knowledge of Zero Trust security architecture and identity-centric security.

• Hands-on experience with IAM, SSO, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect (OIDC), SAML, and MFA.

• Experience with RBAC, ABAC, privileged access, and identity governance.

• Understanding of cloud security across AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

• Knowledge of API security, service identities, workload identities, and secrets management.

• Strong understanding of security policies, risk assessment, and compliance controls.

Preferred Skills

• Experience securing AI agents, autonomous workflows, or agentic AI platforms.

• Familiarity with Microsoft Entra ID, Okta, CyberArk, SailPoint, or similar identity platforms.

• Knowledge of AI security risks, machine identities, and non-human identity governance.

• Relevant cloud or cybersecurity certifications.

• Strong communication, technical leadership, and architecture documentation skills.