Senior Identity Engineer
The full posting
Role Summary
Corporate Identity is a critical control point for Sophos, underpinning everything our employees do and serving as a foundation for our certification and compliance programmes.
We are looking for a hands-on Senior Identity Engineer to join our team of practitioners who manage our modern identity stack. The role spans the full identity lifecycle, from passwordless authentication and adaptive access controls to identity governance, non-human identities, and application integration.
This is a technical engineering role where you will work directly with the technologies we operate, driving the adoption of modern identity capabilities while ensuring security, scalability, and operational excellence.
What You Will Do
- Deliver identity-related projects from design through implementation and operational handover, including passwordless authentication, identity governance, and legacy technology retirement.
- Act as a subject matter expert for one or more core identity platforms, including Microsoft Entra ID, Saviynt, and Active Directory, configuring, troubleshooting, and operating these platforms directly, not just advising on them.
- Integrate enterprise applications with Microsoft Entra ID and Saviynt using standards such as SAML, OIDC, OAuth, and SCIM.
- Configure and optimise Conditional Access, authentication, and MFA policies to balance security, usability, and business requirements.
- Contribute to Sophos' Non-Human Identity (NHI) strategy, including service accounts, machine identities, secrets management, workload identities, and emerging AI agent identities.
- Analyse, troubleshoot, and resolve complex identity and authentication issues across cloud and on-premises environments.
- Stay current with developments in identity security, identity governance, privileged access management, and emerging industry standards.
- Work using Agile methodologies.
- Participate in the Identity team's out-of-hours support rota.
What You Will Bring
- Significant hands-on experience administering and engineering solutions in Microsoft Entra ID and Microsoft Active Directory. You've personally configured and administered these environments, not just designed them.
- Proven experience implementing and troubleshooting identity protocols, including SAML, OIDC, OAuth, and SCIM.
- Strong understanding of identity governance, access management, authentication, authorisation, and compliance controls.
- Experience integrating enterprise applications with identity providers and governance platforms.
- Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills across cloud and hybrid identity environments.
- Understanding of identity security principles and privileged access management concepts.
- Desirable: Experience with a modern Identity Governance Administration (IGA) platform, such as Saviynt, SailPoint, or similar.
- Exposure to Non-Human Identity (NHI), machine identity, workload identity, or secrets management.
- Terraform and Infrastructure-as-Code experience.
- CI/CD experience using GitHub and GitHub Actions.
- Familiarity with Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions.
- Azure and Microsoft certifications.
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What does remote mean at Sophos?Sophos supports flexible ways of working, with many roles offered remotely and others working in a hybrid model. For remote roles, you may work remotely within the location specified in the job posting. Candidates must reside in and be authorized to work in that location. Our teams collaborate across locations and time zones, using technology to stay connected and deliver results.
Our Commitment To You
Sophos welcomes applicants with diverse experiences, perspectives, and backgrounds. We believe great ideas come from different ways of thinking, and we are committed to building a workplace where people can contribute, grow, and succeed.
We evaluate all candidates based on job-related skills, qualifications, and experience, and are committed to providing equal employment opportunities consistent with applicable laws and regulations.
If you require a reasonable accommodation during any stage of the recruitment process, please let your recruiter know. Any information shared will be used only to evaluate and provide the requested accommodation.
Where you can work
This role is 100% remote, for applicants located in United Kingdom.
Text as Sophos published it; last compared with the original on 11 Nov 2026.
The application
Your details and CV, then 2 questions.
- 1.Have you previously worked for Sophos as an employee or contractor/consultant?Yes or no
- 2.Are you legally entitled to work in the country where this position is located?Yes or no
Taken from Sophos's application form as it stood on 11 Nov 2026.
The employer: Sophos
British vendor of endpoint protection, firewalls and managed detection; its security staff hunt threats, run incident response engagements and test clients' defenses.
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