Security Engineer

About Company:

Synechron is a global technology consulting firm that helps leading organizations accelerate digital transformation through innovation, expertise, and agility. With more than 16,500 professionals across around 60 offices in over 20 countries, we combine deep industry knowledge with advanced capabilities in AI, cloud, cybersecurity, and data engineering. Our regional teams, supported by strategic delivery centers, provide scalable, cost-efficient solutions tailored to local markets. Through our award-winning Synechron FinLabs accelerators and strategic partnerships with AWS, Microsoft, Databricks, Salesforce, and ServiceNow, we enable clients to innovate fast and lead with confidence. For more information on the company, please visit our website or LinkedIn community.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative-action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.

All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

Job Description:

Join a global Identity & Access Management (IAM) Transformation and help build the next generation of secure digital identity services at enterprise scale.

We are looking for a Security Engineer with strong experience in IAM, Zero Trust, cloud security, and modern security engineering practices to help design, implement, and secure the IDAM 2.0 platform. This is a unique opportunity to work on a large-scale, multi-year transformation program that will redefine how identity is managed across human, workload, and machine identities.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and implement security controls across the IDAM 2.0 platform
• Embed Secure by Design principles throughout solution delivery
• Implement and maintain Zero Trust security controls
• Secure authentication, authorisation, and service-to-service communication
• Implement mTLS, PKI, certificate lifecycle management, and secrets management
• Support Workload Identity, Human Identity, and Agent Identity controls
• Build and maintain Policy-as-Code using OPA and related technologies
• Perform threat modelling, security reviews, and risk assessments
• Identify and remediate security vulnerabilities
• Support vulnerability management and security patching
• Implement security controls across GCP, Kubernetes, APIs, and service mesh
• Configure security monitoring, logging, alerting, and audit capabilities
• Contribute to DevSecOps tooling and automated security testing
• Collaborate with architects, engineers, security operations, and business stakeholders
• Produce security standards, hardening guides, and operational documentation

What We’re Looking For

Essential Skills

• Information Security Engineering
• Identity & Access Management (IAM)
• Zero Trust Architecture
• Authentication & Authorisation
• Workload Identity and Agent Identity
• PKI and Certificate Management
• Secrets Management
• Cryptography
• Cloud Security (GCP)
• Kubernetes Security
• Service Mesh Security
• API Security
• Policy-as-Code (OPA)
• DevSecOps
• Secure Software Development Lifecycle (SSDLC)
• Threat Modelling
• Vulnerability Management
• Security Monitoring / SIEM
• Security Compliance & Governance
• Incident Response support

Why Join This Opportunity?

• Be part of a major IAM transformation
• Work on modern identity security challenges at enterprise scale
• Help shape secure platforms across cloud, Kubernetes, and enterprise IAM
• Influence the future of identity, access, and Zero Trust security
• Collaborate with high-performing global teams in a fast-paced environment