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MFA Engineer
- S1, Sheffield, South Yorkshire
- Contract·On-site
- Full time
- £550 - £570 Per Day
Job Description
Contract: Inside IR35
- Location: Remote-based, with the potential requirement to work from Sheffield 2-days per week if a new office policy is introduced. We're partnering with a leading financial services client on a strategic Identity and Access Management transformation programme and are looking for an experienced MFA Engineer to help deliver modern authentication capabilities across a complex enterprise environment. This is a hands-on engineering role requiring strong experience across MFA, IAM and authentication technologies, alongside the ability to work effectively with architecture, cybersecurity, application and infrastructure teams. Key Requirements:
- Strong hands-on experience engineering MFA and SSO within enterprise IAM environments
- Deep understanding of modern authentication and federation protocols, particularly OIDC/OAuth2 and SAML
- Experience with at least one enterprise Identity Provider platform
- Strong understanding of authentication vs authorisation, identity lifecycle and trust boundaries
- Working knowledge of PKI, certificates, TLS and key management
- Experience operating production IAM services, including monitoring, incident and change management
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the confidence to challenge and influence technical decisions
- Ability to work across architecture, cybersecurity, infrastructure and application teams
Desirable
- Entra ID / Azure AD experience
- FIDO2/WebAuthn and phishing-resistant MFA experience
- PowerShell and/or Python scripting and API experience
- Zero Trust and adaptive/risk-based authentication knowledge
- PAM and privileged authentication experience
- Cloud and hybrid identity experience across Azure, AWS or GCP
- Experience in financial services or other regulated environments
- Relevant IAM, security or Microsoft Identity certifications This is a key opportunity to play a hands-on role in a major enterprise IAM transformation, helping shape and deliver the future of authentication across a complex financial services environment