Senior IAM Systems Engineer, Automation & Platform …, Bedford

Senior IAM Systems Engineer, Automation & Platform Enablement (Global Security) The Senior IAM Systems Engineer, Automation & Platform Enablement (Global Security) is responsible for designing and delivering shared automation, CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code capabilities that accelerate delivery across all IAM engineering teams. The role sits within Platform Enablement Engineering, building the developer experience, automation patterns, and operational tooling consumed across IAM platforms—including authentication, authorization, privileged access management, identity governance, and global directory services.

Responsibilities

Design, build, and maintain shared CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code modules, and GitOps tooling across IAM engineering teams

Lead onboarding automation for major IAM platforms (Entra ID, Auth0, Authorization service, and future platforms)

Build operational automation for the IAM toolset—patching, certificate rotation, configuration drift detection, and routine support operations

Establish reference patterns, accelerators, and reusable components that reduce onboarding time and improve consistency

Implement observability, alerting, and SRE practices for shared platforms and pipelines

Partner with platform teams to identify automation opportunities and reduce operational toil

Ensure shared tooling meets regulatory and internal control requirements (Architecture, Security, Risk, Audit)

Support production operations, incident response, and root cause analysis for shared platforms

Establish standard IAM pipeline patterns, templates, and best practices aligned with enterprise DevSecOps standards

Collaborate with application, platform, and security teams to enable consistent IAM automation adoption

Contribute to IAM-as-code practices evolution, including configuration versioning, testing, and environment promotion

Support containerized and cloud-native IAM integrations in OpenShift environments

Act as technical enabler across teams, supporting adoption of standardized IAM automation patterns

Ensure IAM automation aligns with banking regulatory requirements and internal security controls

Embed security, auditability, and traceability into IAM pipelines and automation workflows

Support secure secrets handling, artifact promotion, and policy enforcement using enterprise tooling

Qualifications Must-Have

Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field

7+ years in software/platform/DevOps engineering with significant enterprise platform support experience

Deep hands‑on expertise with Infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), GitOps, and CI/CD platforms (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI)

Strong proficiency in automation tooling languages (Python, Go, or equivalent)

Experience designing and operating reusable automation modules and shared developer tooling consumed by multiple teams

Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) including OpenShift

Exposure to networking/security technologies (load balancers, firewalls, SSL certificates, SSO systems)

Strong understanding of secrets management, certificate management, and secure pipeline practices

Experience integrating IAM solutions into complex enterprise environments

Strong collaboration skills; ability to influence without direct authority in matrixed environments

Strong verbal and written communication abilities to articulate technical concepts to diverse stakeholders

Nice-to-Have

Experience automating IAM platforms (Entra ID, Auth0, SailPoint, CyberArk, or equivalent)

Experience building internal developer platforms (IDPs) and golden‑path tooling

Familiarity with policy‑as‑code frameworks (OPA, Sentinel) and Zero Trust Architecture

Experience leading automation initiatives across multiple platform teams

Experience contributing to enterprise automation standards or platforms

Familiarity with artifact repositories (Artifactory) and API integration (RESTful APIs, microservices)

Background working in a regulated banking or financial services environment

Working knowledge of the banking/financial services regulatory landscape (FRB, Part 30, OSFI) and how it shapes authentication controls

Benefits

A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible perks, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable

Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities

Ability to make a difference and lasting impact

Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high‑performing team

Opportunities to do challenging work and take on progressively greater accountabilities

Location: 16 YORK ST, Toronto, Canada

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