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Senior IAM Security Specialist

Date Posted: Jun 25, 2026

Job #1688606
Permanent
Burbank, California, USA

The Identity and Access Management (IAM) Engineering team is hiring talented contributors for innovative
projects that will help power and secure our businesses and guest experiences. Leverage your solutions
integrations knowledge, industry experience, and your passion for new technologies and platforms. You will be
part of a diverse cross-functional team with ownership at the core of its DNA.
What You Will Do
We are looking for a Sr. Platform Engineer to join Disney's Enterprise Technology Identity and Access
Management (IAM) group. This group's core mission is providing a Core IAM ecosystem of security services,
platforms, and solutions in use across the company by cast members, employees, and partners within Disney's
business segments (DEE&T, DX, Studios) and corporate functions. Our vision is to provide advanced Identity and
Access Management capabilities and services that are simple, seamless, and secure to protect our workforce,
our data, and our brands.
Responsibilities:
* Design, build, maintain and automate an IAM security solution within a vendor-provided enterprise IAM
service/platform protecting thousands of internal applications and data of hundreds of thousands of cast
members, employees, and partners of Disney.
* Recommends and implements solutions for the technical integration and implementation of our IAM
services in coordination with IAM domain architects, team lead, service leads, software engineers, and our
operations teams.
* In collaboration with domain architects and team leads to defines/maintains all aspects of the platform
engineering process including service/product technical evaluation process, lab testing, and service
solution design.
* Accountable for ensuring all security and compliance standards are upheld as the service delivery team
including remediating vulnerabilities, driving compliance evidence collection, and following all change
management processes while also providing on call support and incident response and RCA.
* Evaluates capabilities of new security services/functionality and crafts solutions to deliver technology-
current and business-aligned platform offerings that evolve our cybersecurity defense and upgrade our
security posture.
* Collaborates closely with software engineering teams in support of their custom developed solutions and
products that integrate with vendor platforms
* Maintains strong knowledge of emerging technologies and trends
Must Have
* 5+ years of experience in IT Enterprise Technology, supporting identity and access (IAM), enterprise
platforms, and/or collaboration ecosystems within diverse enterprises
* 3+ years providing technical leadership and mentorship to other engineers
* 3+ years of confirmed running Okta at scale within a medium-to-large enterprise environment
* 3+ years of consistent record with implementing or maintaining large-scale identity and access
management solutions, experienced in: Products/Vendors: SailPoint, SGNL, Okta, Active Directory, Entra
ID
* 2+ years' experience working with suppliers in an outsourced environment
* Identity Lifecycle Management, HCM (e.g., SAP, Workday) and IAM Data Integration
* Protocols/Standards such as SCIM, OAuth2, SAML, OIDC, LDAP
* Experience automating access provisioning and deprovisioning
* Familiarity with zero standing access concepts and policy-based access management
* Experience automating common operational tasks, web service/API integration, and deployment activities
in scripting/programming languages (Python, JavaScript, PowerShell)
Understand security concerns within application (password hashing, SSL/TLS, encryption at rest, XSS,
XSRF)
* Expertise with Agile methodologies and delivering solutions through sprint planning activities
Nice To Have
* Solid grasp with critical data handling such as SOX, PCI and PII, Safe Harbor
* SailPoint Certifications
* SGNL Practitioner Certification
* Professional certifications in other identity and access management platforms and products (Active
Directory, Okta)
* CISSP/Security Certifications
Education
* BS or BA degree in Information Technology, Information Security, Computer Science

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