Lead Authentication Engineer _Vice President _Cybersecurity Engineering
Marks & Spencer Group plc20 hours ago
Bengaluru, IndiaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Design, build, integrate, ship, and operationalize secure authentication solutions for human and non-human identities.
- 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 services with high availability, disaster recovery, performance tuning, infrastructure as code, configuration management, CI/CD, observability, and safe deployment practices.
- Collaborate with product and platform leads, participate in on-call, lead root-cause analyses, and drive operational excellence.
- Translate architecture into epics, stories, runbooks, pipelines, architecture decision records, standards, and audit-ready documentation.
Requirements
- At least 12 years of career experience in cybersecurity engineering with hands-on principal-level engineering responsibilities.
- At least 6 years of relevant work experience to perform the role.
- Deep enterprise-scale authentication experience with OIDC/OAuth2, SAML, SSO, FIDO2/WebAuthn, PKI, API authentication, 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 high availability and disaster recovery.
- Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef, CI/CD, observability, and performance tuning, plus strong Shell and Python or Go skills.
- Knowledge of threat modeling, least privilege, privileged access management, secrets management, policy as code, auditability, and controls for human and non-human identities.
- Ability to integrate vendor products and open standards into cohesive, documented solutions and APIs and influence roadmaps in large institutions.
Benefits
- Morgan Stanley offers comprehensive employee and family benefits and perks, support throughout employees' work-life journeys, opportunities for internal mobility, and an inclusive equal-opportunity workplace.
About Marks & Spencer Group plc
Marks & Spencer Group plc is a British retailer selling clothing, home goods, and food to consumers through stores and ecommerce, with a focus on own-brand products. The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange, was founded in 1884, and is headquartered in London. In the UK, its online grocery offering runs via Ocado Retail, a joint venture in which M&S holds a significant stake.