About the role

  • Cybersecurity Engineer Sr Principal at GDIT developing IAM solutions and driving Zero Trust principles. Collaborating with leadership and engineering teams while ensuring compliance and automation.

Responsibilities

  • Support solving some of our clients’ biggest challenges and help us grow the business
  • Architect and drive modern IAM solutions that align with Zero Trust principles, enhance automation, and ensure compliance
  • Partner with senior leadership, cloud architects, and engineering teams to design secure identity and access controls across hybrid environments
  • Define and enforce least privilege, role-based access control (RBAC), and just-in-time access across enterprise systems
  • Drive automation for identity lifecycle management using Okta Workflows, PowerShell, and API-based orchestration
  • Ensure automated compliance reporting, security controls, and governance dashboards meet audit requirements
  • Oversee complex federated authentication scenarios, API integrations, and custom applications
  • Support the design and deployment of Privileged Access Management (PAM) controls using modern cloud-based solutions
  • Strengthen credential management and certificate authority modernization efforts in alignment with evolving industry expiration and compliance standards
  • Implement passwordless and phishing-resistant authentication using FIDO2, Okta FastPass, Windows Hello for Business, and M365 Conditional Access policies
  • Define and execute Zero Trust roadmap milestones across identity, network, and endpoint domains
  • Conduct periodic reviews of access controls, entitlements, and privileged accounts to maintain compliance
  • Provide documentation and evidence to support internal and external audits and participate in incident response investigations as a subject matter expert

Requirements

  • 8+ years of progressive experience in cybersecurity engineering, identity and access management, and cloud security operations
  • Bachelor’s degree or In lieu of degree, 12+ years of related experience will be required
  • Identity Access Management (IAM)
  • Okta Lifecycle Management
  • Okta Workflows
  • Okta Identity Governance
  • Privileged Access Management (PAM)
  • Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA)
  • Active Directory
  • Microsoft Entra ID
  • Automation (Okta Workflows, PowerShell)

Benefits

  • Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages
  • 401K with company match
  • Competitive pay and paid time off
  • Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
  • Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave
  • Short and long-term disability benefits
  • Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

Job title

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

$164,382 - $189,750 per year

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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