Senior Authentication Specialist

🏗 We're Hiring: Senior Authentication Specialist

📍 Location: United Arab Emirates (Remote)

🕒 Employment Type: Full-Time

💼 Experience Level: Mid-Level to Senior

🌐 Work Arrangement: Fully Remote

About Us

We are a construction-focused organization committed to delivering complex projects through disciplined contract management, commercial excellence, risk control, and collaborative project delivery. Our distributed teams collaborate across Project Management, Construction, Engineering, Procurement, Commercial, Legal, Finance, Human Resources, Design, Quality, HSE, Consultants, Contractors, Suppliers, Logistics, Administration, Information Technology, and Executive Leadership to maintain secure technology environments, protect sensitive information, strengthen identity controls, and support uninterrupted business and project delivery.

The Role

We are seeking an experienced Senior Authentication Specialist to support enterprise authentication services, identity security, access controls, authentication technologies, security monitoring, compliance, and risk reduction across the organization. The ideal candidate will provide senior-level technical and operational support throughout the authentication lifecycle, from identity onboarding and authentication configuration through monitoring, troubleshooting, incident response, auditing, and continuous improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer and support enterprise authentication services across corporate, project, cloud, and remote environments.
• Design, implement, maintain, and optimize secure authentication mechanisms across critical technology platforms.
• Support authentication services including single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, federated authentication, passwordless authentication, and adaptive authentication.
• Manage authentication policies, configurations, workflows, and security controls in accordance with organizational requirements.
• Support identity providers, directory services, authentication servers, and related identity infrastructure.
• Configure and maintain authentication integrations for enterprise applications, cloud platforms, databases, systems, and network environments.
• Support SAML, OAuth, OpenID Connect, LDAP, Kerberos, and other approved authentication protocols and technologies.
• Troubleshoot authentication failures, login issues, token problems, federation errors, certificate issues, and access-related incidents.
• Monitor authentication services for availability, performance, reliability, and security anomalies.
• Review authentication logs and identify suspicious, unusual, or unauthorized authentication activity.
• Escalate potential security incidents to Cybersecurity, Information Security, and relevant management teams.
• Support investigations involving compromised credentials, suspicious authentication activity, account takeover attempts, and unauthorized access.
• Coordinate with Privileged Access, Identity and Access Management, Network, Infrastructure, Cloud, Application, and Cybersecurity teams.
• Support authentication requirements for privileged accounts, administrative identities, service accounts, and standard user accounts.
• Implement and maintain multi-factor authentication policies for users, administrators, applications, and critical systems.
• Support enrollment, configuration, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management of authentication factors.
• Manage authentication certificates, keys, secrets, tokens, and other authentication-related credentials in accordance with security requirements.
• Monitor certificate expiration and coordinate timely renewal and replacement activities.
• Support password policies, authentication thresholds, account lockout controls, session management, and related security configurations.
• Assist with implementing risk-based and conditional access policies based on identity, device, location, application, and security context.
• Support secure remote access and authentication for distributed employees, contractors, consultants, and project personnel.
• Maintain accurate documentation of authentication architecture, configurations, integrations, procedures, and security controls.
• Develop and maintain standard operating procedures for authentication administration, troubleshooting, incident handling, and access recovery.
• Conduct periodic reviews of authentication configurations, policies, integrations, and security controls.
• Identify weak, outdated, misconfigured, or unsupported authentication mechanisms and coordinate remediation.
• Support the migration of legacy authentication systems to modern and more secure authentication technologies.
• Assist with authentication architecture and security requirements for new applications, systems, cloud services, and technology projects.
• Participate in authentication-related system implementations, upgrades, migrations, testing, and integrations.
• Perform technical testing and validation of authentication functionality before production deployment.
• Coordinate with application owners and vendors to resolve authentication integration issues.
• Support authentication-related change management and ensure changes are properly authorized, tested, documented, and implemented.
• Maintain accurate records of authentication systems, integrations, applications, policies, certificates, and dependencies.
• Prepare reports covering authentication availability, incidents, access issues, MFA adoption, security events, and control performance.
• Provide management with analysis of authentication risks, trends, recurring issues, and remediation activities.
• Support internal and external cybersecurity audits involving identity and authentication controls.
• Prepare audit evidence, authentication logs, configuration records, policy documentation, and supporting information.
• Ensure authentication processes comply with applicable United Arab Emirates cybersecurity, privacy, regulatory, contractual, and organizational requirements.
• Maintain awareness of relevant UAE cybersecurity frameworks, regulatory expectations, industry standards, and emerging authentication practices.
• Coordinate with Legal, Compliance, Risk, Internal Audit, and Information Security teams on authentication governance requirements.
• Support vulnerability remediation activities involving authentication systems, protocols, services, and configurations.
• Assist with security assessments and risk reviews of authentication architectures and integrations.
• Support incident response activities involving compromised credentials, authentication failures, suspicious login activity, and identity-based threats.
• Assist with forensic investigations by providing authorized authentication logs, event records, configuration information, and technical evidence.
• Coordinate with external vendors, consultants, and managed security providers regarding authentication services and technical issues.
• Evaluate authentication technologies and provide recommendations for security, reliability, scalability, and user experience improvements.
• Support automation of authentication provisioning, enrollment, monitoring, reporting, and operational workflows.
• Identify recurring authentication issues and recommend improvements to reduce service disruption and security risk.
• Maintain strict confidentiality when handling credentials, authentication data, security logs, employee information, system configurations, and other sensitive information.
• Provide technical guidance and mentoring to junior identity, access management, and security personnel.
• Participate in cross-functional security meetings and provide authentication expertise to technology and business initiatives.
• Maintain professional knowledge of identity security, authentication technologies, zero-trust principles, cloud security, cybersecurity frameworks, and access governance practices.
• Assist Executive Leadership and management with authentication risk assessments, security reports, control improvements, and strategic initiatives.
• Perform other authentication, identity security, cybersecurity, technical, and administrative responsibilities consistent with the position and organizational needs.