About the Role

We are looking for an Information Security Engineer to help scale and mature our corporate security program in a fast-moving, high-growth environment. This role will focus on identity and access management, endpoint security, SaaS security, corporate infrastructure security, and security operations enablement.

The ideal candidate is hands-on, automation-minded, and comfortable partnering across IT, Engineering, Infrastructure, HR, and Compliance teams to improve security controls while maintaining a strong employee experience.

You will help design and operate security systems that protect corporate assets, secure employee access, improve visibility, and reduce organizational risk across cloud-first and SaaS-heavy environments.

Responsibilities

Identity & Access Management

• Design, implement, and improve identity and access management controls across enterprise applications and infrastructure.

• Manage and optimize SSO, MFA, lifecycle management, conditional access, RBAC, and privileged access workflows.

• Partner with IT and business stakeholders to implement least-privilege access models.

• Support onboarding, offboarding, and automated provisioning/deprovisioning workflows.

• Conduct periodic access reviews and help drive remediation efforts.

• Improve authentication security and identity posture across corporate systems.

Corporate Security Engineering

• Secure and manage corporate endpoints across macOS, Windows, and cloud-managed environments.

• Improve endpoint visibility, hardening, monitoring, and response capabilities.

• Help implement and tune modern endpoint protection, browser security, device trust, and web/data protection controls.

• Partner with Infrastructure and IT teams on secure configuration standards and operational improvements.

• Support security initiatives related to enterprise SaaS applications and collaboration platforms.

• Assist with vendor and third-party security evaluations related to enterprise tooling.

Security Operations & Monitoring

• Assist with security monitoring, detection engineering, and incident response activities.

• Improve log visibility and telemetry coverage across identity, endpoint, and SaaS platforms.

• Build and maintain detections, alerts, and operational playbooks.

• Participate in incident investigations and post-incident remediation efforts.

• Help operationalize security metrics and reporting.

Automation & Engineering

• Build automations and integrations that improve security operations efficiency.

• Develop scripts and workflows to reduce manual processes.

• Partner with Engineering and Infrastructure teams to improve security guardrails and operational maturity.

• Contribute to infrastructure-as-code and policy-as-code initiatives where applicable.

Compliance & Security Programs

• Support security compliance initiatives such as SOC 2, ISO 27001, or similar frameworks.

• Help document technical controls, processes, and operational procedures.

• Participate in risk assessments and remediation tracking.

• Contribute to security awareness and internal enablement efforts.

Qualifications

Required

• 4+ years of experience in information security, security engineering, IT security, or related fields.

• Experience administering enterprise identity providers and access management systems.

• Experience with endpoint management and endpoint security tooling.

• Familiarity with security monitoring, logging, and incident response workflows.

• Strong understanding of authentication protocols and identity security concepts, including SAML, OIDC, OAuth, SCIM, MFA, conditional access, and RBAC.

• Experience working in cloud-first environments using modern SaaS platforms.

• Strong scripting or automation experience using Python, Bash, PowerShell, or similar.

• Ability to balance security requirements with operational usability and business needs.

• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Preferred

• Experience securing macOS environments at scale.

• Experience with modern browser security and data protection technologies.

• Experience with cloud-native security monitoring or SIEM platforms.

• Familiarity with MDM/UEM platforms, EDR solutions, identity governance, and SaaS security tools.

• Experience implementing automation around identity lifecycle management.

• Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code or cloud security practices.

• Experience in high-growth startup or enterprise environments.

• Security certifications such as Security+, CISSP, GIAC, identity provider certifications, endpoint management certifications, or equivalent.

4+ years in information security or related fields; experience with identity providers, endpoint security, monitoring, and scripting (Python, Bash, PowerShell); knowledge of SAML, OIDC, OAuth, SCIM, MFA, conditional access, RBAC.

Key Responsibilities

• managing identity access
• securing endpoints
• automating security workflows

Skills & Tools

Python, Bash, PowerShell, SAML, OIDC, OAuth, SCIM, MFA, RBAC, MDM, UEM, EDR, SIEM

Job Details

• Category: Information Technology
• Seniority: Mid Level
• Commitment: Full Time
• Workplace: Remote — Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines
• Languages: English

About Athena

A high-growth company providing security engineering and identity management services. — Industry: Information Technology