Senior Identity Engineer

About the Position

Senior Identity Engineer

United Kingdom / Romania

Information Technology and Security – Infrastructure and Services

Permanent

Remote

About Us

Sophos is a cybersecurity leader defending 600,000 organizations globally with an AI-driven platform and expert-led services. Sophos meets organizations wherever they are in their security maturity and grows with them to defeat cyberattacks. Its solutions combine machine learning, automation, and real-time threat intelligence with frontline human expertise from Sophos X-Ops to deliver advanced, 24/7 threat monitoring, detection, and response.

Sophos offers industry-leading managed detection and response (MDR) alongside a comprehensive portfolio of cybersecurity technologies - including endpoint, network, email, and cloud security, extended detection and response (XDR), identity threat detection and response (ITDR), and next-gen SIEM. Together with expert advisory services, these capabilities help organizations proactively reduce risk and respond faster, with the visibility and scalability needed to stay ahead of evolving threats.

Sophos goes to market with a global partner ecosystem, including Managed Service Providers (MSPs), Managed Security Service Providers (MSSPs), resellers and distributors, marketplace integrations, and cyber risk partners, giving organizations the flexibility to choose trusted relationships when securing their business. Sophos is headquartered in Oxford, U.K. More information is available at www.sophos.com.

Role Summary

Corporate Identity is a critical control point for Sophos, underpinning everything our employees do and serving as a foundation for our certification and compliance programmes.

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Identity Engineer to join our team of practitioners who manage our modern identity stack. The role spans the full identity lifecycle, from passwordless authentication and adaptive access controls to identity governance, non-human identities, and application integration.

This is a technical engineering role where you will work directly with the technologies we operate, driving the adoption of modern identity capabilities while ensuring security, scalability, and operational excellence.

Responsibilities

• Deliver identity-related projects from design through implementation and operational handover, including passwordless authentication, identity governance, and legacy technology retirement.
• Act as a subject matter expert for one or more core identity platforms, including Microsoft Entra ID, Saviynt, and Active Directory, configuring, troubleshooting, and operating these platforms directly, not just advising on them.
• Integrate enterprise applications with Microsoft Entra ID and Saviynt using standards such as SAML, OIDC, OAuth, and SCIM.
• Configure and optimise Conditional Access, authentication, and MFA policies to balance security, usability, and business requirements.
• Contribute to Sophos' Non-Human Identity (NHI) strategy, including service accounts, machine identities, secrets management, workload identities, and emerging AI agent identities.
• Analyse, troubleshoot, and resolve complex identity and authentication issues across cloud and on-premises environments.
• Stay current with developments in identity security, identity governance, privileged access management, and emerging industry standards.
• Work using Agile methodologies.
• Participate in the Identity team's out-of-hours support rota.

Requirements

Essential

• Significant hands-on experience administering and engineering solutions in Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Active Directory. You've personally configured and administered these environments, not just designed them.
• Proven experience implementing and troubleshooting identity protocols, including SAML, OIDC, OAuth, and SCIM.
• Strong understanding of identity governance, access management, authentication, authorisation, and compliance controls.
• Experience integrating enterprise applications with identity providers and governance platforms.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills across cloud and hybrid identity environments.
• Understanding of identity security principles and privileged access management concepts.

Desirable

• Experience with a modern Identity Governance Administration (IGA) platform, such as Saviynt, SailPoint, or similar.
• Exposure to Non-Human Identity (NHI), machine identity, workload identity, or secrets management.
• Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code experience.
• CI/CD experience using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Familiarity with Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions.
• Azure and Microsoft certifications.

We Offer

• Remote-first working model with some roles requiring a hybrid approach.
• Opportunities for professional development and career advancement.
• Employee-led diversity and inclusion networks.
• Annual charity and fundraising initiatives.
• Global employee sustainability initiatives.
• Global fitness and trivia competitions.
• Global wellbeing days.
• Monthly wellbeing webinars and training.

About the Company

At Sophos, we believe in the power of diverse perspectives to fuel innovation. We challenge the notion that candidates must check every box in a job description to apply. Your unique experiences and skills might be exactly what we need to enhance our team. Don’t let a checklist hold you back – we encourage you to apply.

We’re proud of the diverse and inclusive environment we have at Sophos, and we’re committed to ensuring equality of opportunity. We believe that diversity, combined with excellence, builds a better Sophos, so we encourage applicants who can contribute to the diversity of our team. All applicants will be treated in a fair and equal manner and in accordance with the law regardless of gender, sex, gender reassignment, marital status, race, religion or belief, color, age, military veteran status, disability, pregnancy, maternity or sexual orientation.

We want to give you every opportunity to show us your best self, so if there are any adjustments we could make to the recruitment and selection process to support you, please let us know.

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