Cybersecurity Manager - Enterprise Authentication Security Engineering (Remote)
About The Position
The Home Depot is hiring a Manager of Enterprise Authentication Security Engineering to lead the team responsible for authentication for employees, applications, and workloads. The role owns engineering and L3 operations for enterprise single sign-on platforms, centered on Microsoft Entra, and develops cloud-native authentication services that support millions of authentications daily. This is a technical leadership position responsible for setting technical direction, coaching engineers, and partnering with security, infrastructure, application, and compliance teams. The manager will promote automation, continuous delivery, and operational rigor to ensure reliable, secure, and consistently performant authentication services at scale.
Requirements
- Hands-on experience implementing and operating enterprise single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID.
- Experience with DevOps and continuous-release practices, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated deployment.
- Working knowledge of Azure, AWS, or GCP and building secure, resilient cloud services.
- Prior software development experience and ability to read and review code.
- Experience leading engineers or technical teams, including coaching, setting priorities, and delivering results through others.
- Strong understanding of authentication and authorization protocols and security fundamentals.
- Clear written and verbal communication skills and ability to work with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- At least 8 years of work experience.
- Must be at least 18 years old and legally permitted to work in the United States.
- Knowledge, skills, and abilities typically acquired through completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent in a related field.
Nice To Haves
- At least 2 years of previous leadership experience.
- Experience with PingFederate, including migration from it or operating it alongside Entra.
- Experience applying SRE practices to authentication, including SLOs and error budgets, observability, capacity planning, and automated recovery.
- Familiarity with workload identity and non-human identity authentication.
- Experience with platform engineering for large-scale application onboarding, such as self-service tooling, templates, and paved-road patterns.
- Experience designing offline authentication for situations when connectivity to the identity provider is limited or unavailable.
- Experience with identity verification, including integrating verification services and assurance levels into authentication flows.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of authentication security engineers; set goals and foster ownership and continuous improvement.
- Own engineering and L3 operations for commercial and homegrown enterprise SSO platforms.
- Drive infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, automated testing, and frequent, low-risk release practices.
- Design and operate secure, available, and scalable authentication services on cloud infrastructure.
- Partner with security architecture, infrastructure, application, and compliance teams to translate OIDC, OAuth 2.0, and SAML standards into secure, reusable solutions.
- Manage incidents and conduct blameless post-incident reviews that result in durable fixes.
- Communicate status, risks, and strategy to senior leadership and stakeholders.
- Collaborate across teams to reduce vulnerabilities, risks, and incidents; drive solution delivery and guide teams in strategy, alignment, analysis, and execution.
- Provide leadership, mentoring, and coaching to direct reports.
- Lead large-scale transformations through stakeholder alignment, phased rollout, and change management.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Manager
