Security Identity Engineer
About Turing
Based in Palo Alto, California, Turing is the world’s first AI-powered tech services company. It has reimagined tech services from the ground up with AI by offering AI-vetted and matched talent, AI-accelerated development, and access to AI transformation experts who have built many of the most iconic Silicon Valley companies.
Founded in 2018, the company has experienced tremendous growth with three million global developers on its Talent Cloud and 900+ clients. Turing has received numerous awards, including Forbes’s 2022 “One of America’s Best Startup Employers,” being ranked #1 in The Information’s 2021 Annual List of most promising B2B Companies and Fast Company’s “Annual List of the World’s Most Innovative Companies.”
The company’s leadership team comprises both AI technologists from leading organizations including Meta, Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, Stanford, Caltech, MIT as well as tech consulting veterans from Accenture, Cognizant, Capgemini, McKinsey, Bain, and more.
Role Overview
In this role, the senior and tenured candidate will lead the security identity management and compliance efforts by implementing repeatable and consistent processes. As a startup, there will be many opportunities to set the direction and build from scratch. Moving fast while delivering will be key in this role and will require good time management, a sense of urgency, and big picture thinking.
Responsibilities:
- Drive identity and access management
- Drive SOC 2 Type II compliance enforcement efforts on external facing and internal products
- Responsible for and lead compliance projects
- Perform day-to-day operational security activities
- Educate and advocate for security best practices within the organization
- Work with software engineers to proactively identify and fix compliance issues
- Design access architectures for internal products and drive its implementation to protect Turing’s networks and systems
- Conduct access reviews of core corporate and production infrastructure
- Engineer solutions to ensure that IAM solutions and services perform according to defined processes, meet defined policies, and comply with information security requirements
- Integrate IAM systems with in-house and third party applications for provisioning, identity authentication
- Evaluate, develop and implement secure IAM solutions, based on approved enterprise security architectures
- Manage the work flow within IAM including access provisioning, compliance, access management (including privileged accounts) and other functions in information security
- Plan and manage access certification, RBAC & SoD related initiatives
- Provide advice to teams for IAM related settings, policies, and design configurations
Qualifications Needed:
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- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience
- 8+ years of relevant Security Engineering and/or Identity and Access Management experience
- Proven track record of successful IAM implementations and support of those applications
- Strong decision-making capabilities, with a proven ability to weigh the relative costs and benefits of potential actions and identify the most appropriate actions.
- Thorough, detail-oriented and quality-driven with excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Relevant industry training and/or certification preferred
- Able to deliver quality results in a high-energy/high-pressure environment
- Ability to perform duties with minimal supervision
- Extensive experience with the design and configuration of Third Party integrations leveraging SAML
- Experience with SOC 2 controls process and other standards like ISO, NIST, PCI & HIPAA
- Knowledge on applicable laws and regulations like GDPR, CCPA.etc & implementing best practices for compliance
- Experience in compliance automation
- Operational experience in designing and implementing access architectures
- Tooling experience: Okta, Google Workspace, enterprise Identity Management solutions (e.g. CyberArk)
- Change management experience
- Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
Advantages of joining Turing:
- Amazing work culture (Super collaborative & supportive work environment; 5 days a week)
- Awesome colleagues (Surround yourself with top talent from Meta, Google, LinkedIn etc. as well as people with deep startup experience)
- Competitive compensation
- Flexible working hours
- Full-time remote opportunity
Don’t meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Turing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Turing we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace and celebrate authenticity, so if you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.
For applicants from the European Union, please review Turing's GDPR notice here.
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