Identity & Access Management Lead

Sydney CBD (Melbourne considered)

Permanent / Hyrbid

$150-170k base

We are working with a highly regarded professional service client who are looing to build out their IAM practice. Most identity engineers own a slice of the platform. This role owns the whole thing. It is a brand new lead position, set up because the organisation wants one person who is accountable for how people, systems and, before long, AI agents authenticate and what they are allowed to touch.

The target-state design already exists. What is needed now is someone hands-on to run identity as a reliable, well-governed service and to keep raising the bar as more workloads shift to cloud and SaaS and the on-premises footprint shrinks.

What you will be responsible for

• Running and improving a Microsoft-centred identity estate: Entra ID, on-prem AD, hybrid sync, M365 and Azure access
• Conditional Access, MFA and sign-in policy, including retiring legacy authentication
• AD administrative tiering, credential isolation and protection of the highest-privilege accounts
• Enterprise certificate services (ADCS and cloud PKI) and certificate lifecycle hygiene
• The privileged access platform (CyberArk) and least-privilege controls
• Azure role design, access reviews and entitlement governance
• Connecting SaaS and internal apps via SAML, OIDC/OAuth and SCIM
• Standards for service principals, managed identities, app registrations and secrets
• Automating with PowerShell, Microsoft Graph and Bicep/ARM
• Being the escalation point for tricky sign-in, token and provisioning faults

What you bring

• 7+ years in identity, or a security-heavy infrastructure career, with recent time as the senior or lead engineer
• Deep, hands-on Entra ID and Azure access troubleshooting with genuine root cause analysis
• Tiering and credential isolation you have actually implemented, not just designed
• Production experience running ADCS and managing certificate lifecycles
• Administration of an enterprise PAM platform, CyberArk preferred
• Confidence with Kerberos, SAML, OAuth/OIDC, tokens and claims
• Experience supporting audits and access certification
• The ability to explain identity risk to engineers and senior non-technical leaders alike
• Genuine enjoyment of mentoring and lifting a team

Why it is worth a conversation

• A newly created role with real authority over identity decisions
• Strategy already set, so you get straight to building and improving
• Modern Microsoft stack, cloud migration and AI agent identity on the roadmap
• High standards and a strong culture of learning and development