Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Home Depot is hiring a Manager of Enterprise Authentication Security Engineering to lead the team responsible for employee, application, and workload authentication. The role owns enterprise single sign-on engineering and operations, sets technical direction, and partners across teams to deliver secure, reliable authentication services at scale.
Responsibilities
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of authentication security engineers, setting clear goals and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement
- Own engineering and L3 operations for enterprise SSO platforms, both commercial and homegrown
- Drive engineering practices that treat authentication as a production service: infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and frequent, low-risk releases
- Design and operate authentication services on cloud infrastructure with strong security, availability, and scalability characteristics
- Partner with security architecture, infrastructure, application, and compliance teams to translate authentication standards (OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML) into secure, reusable solutions
- Manage incidents and drive blameless post-incident reviews that lead to durable fixes
- Communicate status, risks, and strategy to senior leadership and stakeholders
- 100% Deliver Execution, Plans & Aligns, Develop Others - Collaborate across teams to reduce vulnerabilities, risks and incident management; Drive execution of solution delivery; Guide teams in strategy, alignment, analysis and execution to ensure priorities objectives/deliverable are met; Provide leadership, mentoring and coaching to direct reports
Skills
- Hands-on experience implementing and operating enterprise single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID
- Experience with DevOps practices and continuous release environments, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated deployment
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and how to build secure, resilient services on it
- Software development experience: while you won't be writing code, you should have prior experience and be able to read and review it
- Experience leading engineers or leading technical teams, with the ability to coach, set priorities, and deliver results through others
- Strong understanding of authentication and authorization protocols and security fundamentals
- Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to work across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Track record of running large-scale transformations, including stakeholder alignment, phased rollout, and change management
- Must be eighteen years of age or older
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job
- 8+
- Experience with PingFederate, including migrating from or running it alongside Entra
- Experience applying SRE practices to authentication: SLOs and error budgets, observability, capacity planning, and automated recovery
- Familiarity with workload identity and non-human identity (NHI) authentication
- Experience with platform engineering to support large-scale application onboarding, such as self-service tooling, templates, and paved-road patterns
- Experience designing offline authentication, including how users and systems authenticate when connectivity to the identity provider is limited or unavailable
- Experience with identity verification (identity proofing), including integrating verification services and assurance levels into authentication flows
- 2+ years of previous leadership experience
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