Senior Consultant – Identity Security, IAM

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in France.

📋 Description

• Provide strategic consulting and operational delivery support in cybersecurity and AI for major French and international clients.

• Take full ownership of a workstream and lead associated activities in collaboration with the management team.

• Define IAM transformations, encompassing maturity assessments to roadmap development, and facilitate essential workshops.

• Create identity lifecycle processes, access entitlement models, and segregation-of-duties controls.

• Enhance access journeys through SSO, federation, MFA, conditional access, phishing-resistant authentication, and passkeys.

• Improve the management of privileged access and secrets while adhering to the principle of least privilege.

• Assist in the integration of IAM solutions in hybrid or cloud environments, including tool selection, API automation, testing, deployment, and user adoption.

• Oversee non-human identities, particularly service accounts and cloud workloads.

• Regulate AI agents' access to data, APIs, and tools, especially through the Model Context Protocol (MCP).

• Evaluate identity exposure, pinpoint excessive permissions and attack vectors, and establish remediation measures and ITDR capabilities.

• Develop key deliverables, consolidate analyses, and formulate and deliver recommendations and roadmaps.

• Organize, prioritize, and monitor the team's workload while ensuring high-quality outcomes.

• Provide mentorship to both junior and experienced consultants through work reviews and consistent feedback.

• Participate in the advancement of Sia CyberLab’s offerings and solutions, from experimental phases to publication showcases.

• Identify emerging client needs, craft customized responses, and engage in presales discussions and commercial proposals.

⛳️ Requirements

• A degree from a prestigious engineering or business school, or a top-tier university.

• Over three years of experience in Identity and Access Management (IAM).

• Proficiency in at least one IAM domain: identity governance and administration (IGA), access management (AM), privileged access management (PAM), or customer identity and access management (CIAM).

• Experience in designing architecture or implementing a commercial IAM solution such as SailPoint, Microsoft Entra ID, CyberArk, or a similar platform.

• Familiarity with IAM standards such as SAML, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0, or SCIM.

• Ability to thoroughly analyze complex issues, advocate for recommended actions, and foster trusted relationships.

• Independence in coordinating engagements and mentoring both junior and experienced consultants.

• Professional fluency in both French and English, written and spoken.

• A strong interest in data and AI-related challenges, with the capability to swiftly develop expertise.

• Experience with non-human identities, securing AI-agent access, ITDR, or access governance automation is advantageous.

• An IAM or cybersecurity certification is a plus, though not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Access to several cybersecurity and AI certification training courses each year.

• Ongoing skills enhancement opportunities.

• Professional fulfillment and a long-term commitment to your career development.

• Equal employment opportunity for all candidates.

• Flexibility for remote work.