Agentic Identity Security Consultant

Accenture•St. Louis, MO

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Accenture Security helps organizations prepare, protect, detect, respond, and recover along with all points of the security lifecycle. Cybersecurity challenges are different for every business in every industry. Leveraging our global resources and advanced technologies, we create integrated, turnkey solutions tailored to our client's needs across their entire value chain. Whether we’re defending against known cyberattacks, detecting and responding to the unknown, or running an entire security operations center, we will help companies build cyber resilience to grow with confidence. Our team of the security sector’s brightest people uses the coolest tech to out-hack the hackers and help clients build resilience from within. We blend risk strategy, digital identity, cyber defense, application security, and managed service solutions to rethink the entire security lifecycle. This role is for an engineer who has stayed an engineer, with a hands-on technical approach to building and implementing security solutions. The Forward Deployed Engineer, Agentic Identity Platform is a hands-on technical role focused on securing the deployment of AI agents. Enterprises are deploying AI agents faster than anyone has figured out how to secure them. The identity primitives that industry spent twenty years building for humans and service accounts don't cleanly extend to actors that are autonomous, ephemeral, and delegating authority to each other. We're building the platforms that solve this: agent registries, delegated authorization models, runtime attribution, and policy engines that make decisions in single-digit milliseconds. Some of it ships to Fortune 100 clients. Some of it becomes the reference architecture the industry copies. There's no vendor product to install because in several of these areas the product doesn't exist yet. You'd be a Forward Deployed Engineer, which means you write the code and you're in the room, possibly virtually, with the client while it runs in their environment.

Requirements

Minimum of 3 years of professional experience building and shipping production software
Hands-on technical work within the last 18 months, counting production development, prototyping, or code review
Minimum of 2 years of professional development in at least one of Python, Go, Rust, TypeScript, Java, or C++
Minimum of 2 years building concurrent or distributed systems that ran in production
Minimum of 2 years of hands-on experience deploying and operating cloud infrastructure on AWS, Azure, or GCP, including containers and CI/CD pipelines
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) OR (minimum 12 years) work experience. (If Associate’s Degree, must have minimum 6 years work experience)
At least 1 production service or component you owned end to end, covering design, implementation, deployment, and ongoing operation

Nice To Haves

Experience with OAuth 2.0, OIDC, token exchange, SAML, SPIFFE, PKI, or mTLS
Experience with MCP, agent frameworks, or LLM application development
Experience in identity and access management, IGA, PAM, secrets management, or non-human identity
Applied cryptography experience, including enough to know what you don't know
Participation in a production on-call rotation
Judgment about which problems call for a library, which call for a vendor product, and which call for writing the thing yourself
Comfort explaining a design to a client's engineers and defending the parts they push back on

Responsibilities

Build and ship services in the agentic identity stack: authorization engines, agent registries, credential brokers, and authentication layers for MCP servers
Own a component end to end: design, implementation, deployment, and what happens when it fails at 3am
Reverse-engineer how identity actually works in a client environment, then design what it should be
Prototype against emerging standards and vendor betas, often before documentation exists
Build the internal tooling and reference implementations the rest of the practice reuses
Explain your design to a client's engineers and defend the parts they push back on