LastPass is looking for a Principal Authentication & Identity Architect:
As an Authentication and Identity Architect you will collaborate with Technical Leaders, and fellow Architects to ensure all implementations are designed and built with robust and scalable IAM solutions. You will need to be innovative, a critical thinker and have a deep understanding of proven industry/standard protocols, frameworks, and defence in depth design principles.
If you are passionate about complex problem solving and motivated by scale, then this is the role for you!
Who will you work with?
We are a small Team working directly for the CISO. You will actively participate in discussions to present, debate and solutionise with various Stakeholders.
What are some of the exciting challenges you will be working on?
- You will be responsible for establishing consistent and robust IAM frameworks
- Evolving and enhancing an IAM security and control architecture
- Future proof designs and solutions that can move with the industry, provide agility and adhere to a core framework
- Driving forward the Policy, Standards, Principles and Frameworks
- Communicating, obtaining consensus and leading with regards to the current and future IAM state and roadmap
- Ensuring that the Identity Strategy, direction and governance aligns with the Business, Product strategy and Industry Best practices
- Review cloud infrastructure to continuously identify gaps to solutionise
- Apply a risk-based approach to guide your security decision making process keeping in mind the optics
- Conceptualising with alternative architectural approaches
What does it take to work at LastPass?
- Experience with identity and access management frameworks
- Exposure to Authentication and Identity Standards and Reference Architectures
- Proficiency and understanding of OIDC, Oauth, SAML, token constructs
- The ability to be self-motivated to staying abreast with the latest advances, trends, technologies, vulnerabilities related to this space
- Excellent communication skills at all levels
- Sound understanding of scalability, business value vs security value
It's great, but not required:
- Understanding of microservices
- Knowledge of Cloud Services
- Understanding of cryptographic fundamentals that underpin authentication artifacts
