Lead Authentication Engineer _Vice President _Cybersecurity Engineering
Morgan Stanley1 day ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, integrate, and ship secure, scalable authentication solutions for human and non-human identities, including bots, service accounts, applications, and agentic systems.
- Implement and harden OIDC/OAuth2, SAML, SSO, FIDO2/WebAuthn, PKI, API authentication, and Unix/Linux authentication.
- Integrate and customize Entra ID, Ping Identity, SailPoint, CyberArk, HashiCorp Vault, HSMs, IDM/LDAP, and RCBI across cloud and hybrid environments.
- Operate and evolve large-scale IAM environments with HA/DR, performance tuning, Terraform infrastructure as code, configuration management, CI/CD, observability, and safe deployment strategies.
- Collaborate across product and platform teams, participate in on-call operations, lead root-cause analyses, and drive operational excellence.
- Translate complex architecture into epics, stories, runbooks, pipelines, ADRs, standards, and audit-ready documentation.
Requirements
- 12+ years of cybersecurity engineering experience with hands-on principal-level engineering experience, including coding, configuration, integration, and production delivery.
- Deep enterprise authentication expertise across OIDC/OAuth2, SAML, SSO, FIDO2/WebAuthn, PKI, mTLS, certificate lifecycle management, API authentication, JWT, and Unix/Linux authentication.
- Experience with HashiCorp Vault, HSMs, CyberArk, SailPoint, Entra ID, Ping Identity, IDM/LDAP, and RCBI, including policy design, integration, automation, and migrations.
- Experience operating IAM and authentication services in large, globally distributed environments with multi-region HA/DR, performance tuning, Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, CI/CD, and observability.
- Strong Shell skills plus Python or Go experience.
- Knowledge of threat modeling, least privilege, PAM, secrets management, policy-as-code, and auditability for human and non-human identities.
- Ability to customize and integrate vendor products and open standards into cohesive, documented solutions and APIs.
- Experience navigating large institutions, influencing roadmaps, and driving adoption of security controls and best practices.
- At least 6 years of relevant work experience is also stated.
Benefits
- Comprehensive employee benefits and perks supporting employees and their families.
- Opportunities for career mobility across the business.
- Supportive and empowering work environment with collaboration, diversity, inclusion, and professional growth.
About Morgan Stanley
Morgan Stanley is a global financial services firm that provides investment banking, sales and trading, wealth management, and investment management to corporations, governments, institutions, and individuals. It earns fees, commissions, and interest and trading income across advisory, underwriting, brokerage, and asset management businesses. Founded in 1935 and headquartered in New York, the public company operates in more than 40 countries through thousands of offices, including a large U.S. wealth management franchise.