Senior Security IAM Engineer at Scopely

Scopely is looking for a Senior IAM Security Engineer to join our Information Security team on a remote basis or hybrid basis if located in Barcelona. This role will focus on building, scaling, and securing Scopely’s identity and access management ecosystem across our cloud, SaaS, AI, and remote access environments, with a strong emphasis on Terraform-based IAM automation, access workflow engineering, least-privilege design, identity risk reduction, and AI-assisted operational workflows.

This is a highly technical, hands-on role for someone who can operate across AWS, GCP, Okta, AWS IAM Identity Center, Zero Trust access models, identity governance workflows, and modern AI-enabled engineering environments, while building scalable identity systems through Infrastructure as Code, workflow orchestration, and automation-first security engineering.

What You Will Do

Build and Evolve Modern IAM Architecture

• Design and evolve Scopely’s IAM architecture to support a high-scale, cloud-first environment across AWS, GCP, SaaS applications, AI tooling, and remote access platforms.

Lead initiatives around:

• Federated identity architecture using SAML, OIDC, OAuth, and SCIM
• Workforce identity and access patterns across internal platforms
• Least-privilege role design and access segmentation
• RBAC and ABAC models for cloud and SaaS environments
• Centralized access models using Okta, AWS IAM Identity Center, Google Cloud IAM, and cloud-native IAM services
• Secure cross-account and cross-project access patterns
• Service account, workload identity, and non-human identity governance
• Zero Trust identity and access control design

Partner with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to:

• Standardize secure identity and access patterns
• Reduce identity sprawl and excessive permissions
• Improve access visibility and auditability
• Build scalable identity controls for a fast-moving engineering environment

Own Terraform-Based IAM and Access Automation

• Own and improve Terraform-based IAM and access automation across Scopely’s cloud and identity environment.

Design, build, and maintain:

• Reusable Terraform modules for IAM roles, policies, permission sets, group mappings, and access patterns
• Terraform workflows for Okta app assignments, group-based access, and IAM Identity Center automation
• Standardized access modules that can be reused safely across teams and environments
• Policy-as-code patterns for least privilege and permission boundary enforcement
• Terraform-driven onboarding and offboarding flows for identity-related systems
• Automation for service account and workload identity provisioning
• Access reporting and audit visibility pipelines connected to code-based IAM workflows

Drive improvements in:

• Standardization of IAM modules, variables, role definitions, and policy structures
• Repeatability and consistency of access changes
• Reduction of manual IAM operations
• Auditability and change traceability
• Safe rollout of identity changes through code review and pull request workflows

Ensure mature Terraform engineering practices around:

• State management
• Drift detection and remediation
• Rollback planning
• Blast-radius awareness for IAM changes
• Safe promotion of access changes into production

Automate Identity and Access Workflows

• Build scalable automation for identity lifecycle management, access requests, entitlement changes, access reviews, and day-to-day IAM operations.

Design and implement:

• Provisioning and deprovisioning automation
• Access request and approval workflows
• Group-based access assignment and role mapping
• Okta app integration and assignment automation
• IAM Identity Center permission set automation
• Self-service identity workflows for internal teams
• Identity reporting and access visibility pipelines
• Operational tooling that reduces repetitive IAM work

Work with:

• Terraform and Infrastructure as Code workflows
• Python, Bash, PowerShell, and APIs
• CI/CD systems and Git-based change management
• Okta Workflows and similar orchestration tooling
• ServiceNow, ticketing, and operational workflow integrations
• AI tools such as Claude Code, Codex, and similar engineering assistants
• MCP-enabled integrations, agentic workflows, and internal automation platforms

Drive improvements in:

• Repeatability
• Auditability
• Operational safety
• Reduction of manual IAM work
• Secure-by-default access onboarding

Strengthen Identity Security and Risk Reduction

• Lead initiatives to reduce identity-related risk across human and non-human identities.

Design and implement controls for:

• Excessive permissions and privilege escalation reduction
• Service account and workload identity hardening
• Long-lived credential reduction
• Cross-account trust policy review and hardening
• Permission boundary enforcement
• Role lifecycle management
• Just-in-time and time-bound privileged access
• Break-glass access workflows
• Identity anomaly detection and misuse investigation

Use native and third-party tooling to identify and remediate risk, including:

• AWS IAM Access Analyzer
• CloudTrail
• GuardDuty
• GCP-native IAM and audit services
• Okta System Log and access reporting
• CIEM, CSPM, and related cloud security platforms

Improve Zero Trust and Privileged Access Security

• Partner with IAM, platform, and security teams to strengthen Zero Trust and privileged access controls across Scopely’s environment.

Support and enhance:

• Twingate connectors, resources, and access policy design
• Identity-aware remote access controls
• Zero Trust segmentation for internal applications and privileged systems
• Privileged access workflows
• PAM platform integrations such as Britive
• Adaptive access controls
• MFA and passwordless adoption
• Federated access into AWS, GCP, SaaS platforms, and internal tools
• Secure vendor and contractor access patterns

Drive improvements in:

• Human identity security
• Non-human identity security
• Access visibility
• Privileged session control
• Access policy consistency across environments

Support Identity Investigations, Monitoring, and Audit Readiness

• Partner with Security Operations, Compliance, and Infrastructure teams to improve identity monitoring, investigation, and audit readiness.

Build and enhance:

• IAM troubleshooting runbooks
• Identity-related detection and triage workflows
• Access review processes
• Permission reporting and evidence collection
• IAM logging and monitoring design
• Operational metrics for identity security maturity

Support investigations involving:

• Suspicious access activity
• Identity and permission abuse
• Misconfigured app integrations
• Broken federation and provisioning flows
• Risky SaaS integrations
• Service account misuse
• Cross-account access issues

Collaborate with compliance and audit stakeholders to ensure:

• SOC 2 and ISO 27001 alignment
• Access review evidence readiness
• Documentation of IAM controls and workflows
• Clear traceability for privileged access and entitlement changes

Build AI-Assisted Identity Security Workflows

• Design and improve AI-assisted and automation-first workflows that help Scopely scale identity security safely.

Lead initiatives around:

• AI-assisted access review analysis
• AI-assisted troubleshooting and documentation support
• Intelligent triage for identity-related findings
• Security chatops integrations
• Identity workflow automation using agents and orchestration systems
• Internal copilots for IAM operations and knowledge support
• AI-assisted recommendations for access hygiene and remediation
• MCP-enabled identity tooling and integrations

Work with:

• Claude Code, Codex, and similar AI-assisted engineering tools
• MCP-based workflows and agentic automation patterns
• Internal automation platforms and workflow engines
• APIs, event-driven automation, and identity telemetry pipelines

Ensure safe adoption of AI by applying:

• Human-in-the-loop approval controls
• Least-privilege access to tools and data
• Logging and auditability for AI-assisted workflows
• Prompt and data handling safeguards
• Clear separation between recommendations and privileged actions

Act as a Technical Leader

• Partner with engineering, platform, IT, and studio teams to align IAM strategy with Scopely’s operational and business goals.

Provide expert guidance on:

• Modern IAM architecture
• Federated identity design
• Least-privilege engineering
• Zero Trust access models
• Non-human identity risk
• IAM automation strategy
• Terraform design patterns for identity and access management
• Access governance in fast-growing environments
• Secure access design for engineering teams
• Safe use of AI in identity and access workflows

Influence teams to:

• Adopt secure identity patterns
• Automate IAM safely
• Reduce reliance on manual access processes
• Improve cloud and SaaS access consistency
• Build scalable and maintainable identity controls

Raise the bar for:

• Identity-aware security
• Automation-first IAM operations
• Practical access governance
• Engineering-driven IAM design
• AI-assisted identity operations

What We’re Looking For

Core Experience

• 8–12+ years in IAM security engineering, cloud security, identity architecture, or related security engineering roles
• Strong experience operating in cloud-first, high-scale environments
• Experience partnering directly with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams
• Experience designing and operating IAM solutions for global organizations with complex access needs
• Strong track record in identity modernization, least privilege, and access automation
• Proven experience building automation and reusable engineering patterns, not just handling manual IAM operations

Technical Skills

Cloud and Identity

Strong hands-on experience with:

• AWS IAM, AWS Organizations, IAM Identity Center, SCPs, IAM roles and policies, CloudTrail, GuardDuty, IAM Access Analyzer, SSM
• GCP IAM, service accounts, workload identity patterns, organization/folder/project models, and audit services
• Okta administration including groups, rules, app integrations, assignments, lifecycle management, and troubleshooting
• SAML, OIDC, OAuth, SCIM, and federated identity design
• Cross-account and cross-project access controls
• Service account and workload identity governance
• Twingate administration or comparable ZTNA and remote access platforms, including connectors, resources, access policies, and policy troubleshooting

Infrastructure as Code and Automation

Strong hands-on experience with:

• Terraform-based IAM and access automation in production
• Designing reusable Terraform modules for IAM roles, policies, permission sets, group mappings, and access patterns
• Terraform state management, drift detection, rollback planning, and safe deployment of IAM changes
• Git-based workflows, pull requests, and code review for infrastructure and identity changes
• Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar scripting languages
• API integrations and workflow automation
• Provisioning and deprovisioning automation
• Access reporting and policy standardization
• CI/CD integration for identity-related workflows

Strong understanding of:

• Policy-as-code and automation-first IAM
• How to convert manual IAM processes into reusable code-driven workflows
• How to build transferable, scalable access patterns across teams and environments
• Safe production change practices for identity and access automation

AI and Emerging Technologies

Experience or strong interest in:

• Claude Code, Codex, and similar AI-assisted engineering tools
• MCP integrations and agent-based automation workflows
• AI-assisted detection, triage, remediation support, and documentation
• Prompt security, model safety, and human-in-the-loop operational controls
• Evaluating and safely operationalizing AI tooling in security environments

Security Expertise

Strong understanding of

• Least privilege and role engineering
• RBAC and ABAC design
• Identity threat modeling
• Privileged access and JIT access models
• Identity lifecycle management
• Non-human identity risk reduction
• Identity logging and monitoring
• Access reviews and audit readiness
• Security controls for SaaS and cloud identity systems

Aptitudes

• Builder mindset - creates scalable IAM systems, not one-off fixe

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