Sr Identity Engineer

Sr Identity Engineer

The Senior Identity Engineer – Operations designs, operates, and secures Microsoft Entra ID and its integrations across the enterprise. This role owns identity governance, Conditional Access, privileged access, application identities, and modern authentication controls, while serving as a senior escalation point for complex access and authentication issues. The engineer partners with security, platform, and regional teams to maintain resilient, least-privilege identity services and audit-ready operational standards.

Your Responsibilities

The Senior Identity Engineer – Operations designs, operates, and secures Microsoft Entra ID and its integrations across the enterprise. This role owns identity governance, Conditional Access, privileged access, application identities, and modern authentication controls, while serving as a senior escalation point for complex access and authentication issues. The engineer partners with security, platform, and regional teams to maintain resilient, least-privilege identity services and audit-ready operational standards.

Qualifications

• Engineer, operate, and secure Microsoft Entra ID in an enterprise environment, including hybrid identity with Active Directory and Entra Connect, directory health, monitoring, and incident response.

• Design, implement, and maintain Conditional Access policies enforcing MFA, device trust, sign-in risk, and Zero Trust principles across access scenarios.

• Design and enforce identity standards that eliminate network-based trust assumptions, ensuring MFA and risk-based access controls are consistently applied.

• Review, approve, and operationalize admin consent for third-party enterprise application integrations across the tenant.

• Own enterprise application and service principal onboarding, enforcing least-privilege access models and secure authentication patterns.

• Create, manage, and govern App Registrations, including secret and certificate lifecycle management, rotation standards, and expiration monitoring.

• Design, and enforce least-privilege Microsoft Graph permission models for applications and identity automation.

• Define and maintain standards that prevent interactive sign-in for service accounts, leveraging Conditional Access and non-interactive authentication models.

• Define and enforce identity security guardrails for privileged access, MFA requirements, service accounts, and break-glass scenarios.

• Implement and govern Microsoft Entra Privileged Identity Management (PIM) for administrative roles, just-in-time elevation, approval workflows, access reviews, and privileged access monitoring.

• Design and administer Microsoft Entra Administrative Units to delegate identity and user management with scoped administrative control across regions, business units, and support teams.

• Operate and evolve modern authentication and MFA methods globally, aligning with Microsoft Entra Authentication Methods and organizational security standards.

• Support and standardize passwordless authentication approaches, including FIDO2 and hardware security keys, across regions and business units.

• Support B2B, B2C, cross-tenant, and external identity scenarios for partners, vendors, and client-facing platforms.

• Partner with platform, security, and Azure engineering teams to design and deliver secure Azure access models, role assignments, and identity integrations.

• Act as the escalation point for complex identity-related incidents, authentication failures, and access issues.

• Produce audit-safe documentation and evidence supporting security, compliance, and regulatory requirements.

• Demonstrate a strong understanding of Microsoft 365 (M365) and its identity integrations with Entra ID, including authentication flows, access controls, and tenant-level governance considerations.

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• Lockton Companies is proud to provide everyone an equal opportunity to grow and advance. We are committed to an inclusive culture and environment where our people, clients and communities are treated with respect and dignity.

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• About Lockton

• Lockton is the largest privately held independent insurance brokerage in the world. Since 1966, our independence has allowed us to serve our clients, take care of our people and give back to our communities. As such, our 13,100+ Associates doing business in over 155 countries are empowered to do what’s right every day.

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• How We Will Support You

• At Lockton, we empower you to be true to yourself in all that you do. Your success is our success, and we provide opportunities to help you grow and create a rewarding career path, however you envision it.

• We are ready to meet you where you are today, and as your needs change over time. In addition to industry-leading health insurance, we offer additional options to support your overall health and wellbeing.

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• Any Employment Agency, person or entity that submits an unsolicited resume to this site does so with the understanding that the applicant's resume will become the property of Lockton Companies, Inc. Lockton Companies will have the right to hire that applicant at its discretion and without any fee owed to the submitting Employment Agency, person or entity. Employment Agencies, who have fee Agreements with Lockton Companies must submit applicants to the designated Lockton Companies Employment Coordinator to be eligible for placement fees.

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