Lead Cloud Identity Engineer

Your Job

We have an exciting opportunity to hire a Lead Cloud Identity Engineer to join our already skilled engineering team. This individual will be a part of a global team that manages authentication and identity tools and procedures for Koch Industries. Working closely with global colleagues, as well as customers, will provide significant global exposure.

Our Team

The Koch Technology Identity team provides modern Identity solutions and services for all Koch businesses. We are responsible for the entire enterprise in designing innovative services, creating, and sharing best practices, and providing support for our services.

Location: This role requires an in office presence with flexibility in Wichita, KS / Atlanta, GA / or Plano, TX

This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship

What You Will Do

• Set IAM architecture & standards: Define reusable patterns for SSO/federation, authorization models, privileged access, and workload/machine identity.
• Lead design governance: Run identity design reviews for new applications and major platform changes; approve patterns, manage exceptions, and drive adoption.
• Build authentication & federation: Design and implement SAML2, OAuth2/OIDC, WS-Fed, and FIDO2/passkeys, including adaptive/risk-based auth, conditional access, and MFA.
• Engineer IAM platforms: Operate and enhance enterprise identity services (PingOne / PingOne DaVinci or equivalent orchestration platforms).
• Lead developer for IAM platforms: Serve as lead developer driving hands-on code development to build, extend, and maintain new and existing identity platforms, including custom connectors, APIs, and orchestration flows.
• Design authorization & governance: Build scalable RBAC/ABAC/PBAC models, entitlement catalogs, role engineering, and access request workflows (IGA).
• Automate identity lifecycle: Lead and design end-to-end JML automation integrating HRIS, ITSM, directories, and apps via SCIM and event-driven pipelines.
• Identity as Code: Manage identity configuration/policy using Terraform and CI/CD with testing, version control, and deployment discipline.
• Zero Trust & Detection: Implement least privilege and continuous verification; integrate ITDR-style monitoring, logging, alerting, SLOs, and rapid revocation.
• Incident leadership: Act as escalation for auth outages, federation issues, and credential compromise; lead RCA and post-incident hardening.
• Influence & mentoring: Partner globally with architects, developers, and security; coach engineers through reviews, playbooks, and training.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Extensive experience owning identity platforms at scale, with deep protocol-level expertise across SAML, OAuth2/OIDC, SCIM, FIDO2/passkeys, LDAP, and Kerberos.
• Hands-on architecture across Azure Entra ID, AWS IAM, or Google Cloud Identity, including cross-cloud federation and hybrid identity patterns.
• Practical experience designing and building infrastructure across Azure, AWS, or GCP.
• Strong coding skills in Python and/or TypeScript, with API integrations, Git, CI/CD, and automated testing. Delivery of identity configuration as versioned, testable code using Terraform or similar technologies.
• Hands-on experience integrating diverse applications with enterprise governance platforms; design and delivery of JML automation, RBAC/ABAC/PBAC models and access workflows integrating HRIS → IAM → downstream apps via SCIM and event-driven pipelines.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Experience building multi-step user journeys for Workforce, CIAM, and partner ecosystems using platforms such as PingOne DaVinci or Okta Workflows.
• Hands-on development and design experience with SailPoint IdentityNow/IdentityIQ (or equivalent).
• Real-time detection and response to identity-based threats, integrating signals from IdPs, directories, and SIEM/SOAR platforms.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.