Description
GSK is seeking an Associate Director to lead the engineering and delivery of authentication and cloud security solutions. The successful candidate will turn the vision of one trusted way to authenticate into reality, leading a global team of engineers across SSO, cloud, NHI, and AI agent identity.
The Associate Director will be responsible for:
- Building one team: Leading and developing a global team of engineers across SSO, cloud, NHI, and AI agent identity
- Delivering the roadmap: Owning the engineering roadmap, delivery plans, and service measures
- Making sign-in passwordless and trusted: Running GSK's SSO services and moving the workforce to passwordless authentication
- Securing the cloud: Protecting cloud accounts and access in Azure and GCP with strong authentication
- Bringing workloads and AI agents into the fold: Giving non-human identities and AI agents unique, accountable identities
- Moving from secrets to secretless: Driving adoption of secrets vaulting and management
- Partnering with PKI: Working with the PKI & Cryptographic Services lead to secure cloud, AI, and secrets
- Using AI ourselves: Applying AI to identity engineering and operations
- Setting the example: Showing GSK what secure cloud and AI looks like through secure-by-default implementations
- Keeping trust earned: Ensuring services meet audit and compliance requirements
The ideal candidate will have:
- A degree in computer science, information technology, cyber security, or a related field
- At least 18 years' experience in identity or security, including leading engineering teams
- Strong knowledge of SSO and modern authentication
- Hands-on experience securing identity and access in Azure
- Experience securing non-human identities and secrets
- Working knowledge of AI and large language model security risks
- Strong leadership, delivery, and communication skills