Senior Cyber Security Engineer (Identity Security)

Overview

We are seeking a full-time Senior Cyber Security Engineer for Identity Security at Garmin's U.S. headquarters in the Greater Kansas City area. In this role, you will be responsible for the design, implementation, and operation of Garmin's identity security services. This individual will have a strong background with traditional and modern identity providers and will work across business segments and IT to improve the services, processes, policies, and tooling used to secure Garmin identities. This role serves as a specialist in identity security and will play an active role in incident response and remediation, providing support during security and service incidents.

Essential Functions

• Serve as a trusted advisor to other cybersecurity teams and to Garmin business segments on multiple domains in cybersecurity.
• Collaborate across a team of highly skilled security professionals, promoting knowledge transfer, skill development, and a culture of continuous learning and improvement.
• Identify opportunities to enhance tool integrations and workflows through automation and scripting, using APIs provided by security tools.
• Contribute to project and program planning by estimating and coordinating assigned work.
• Maintain accurate and prompt status updates on your overall progress toward completion of work.
• Design and develop complex, integrated solutions to meet business requirements and enhance the performance of Garmin’s security systems.
• Contribute to the team roadmap and priorities.
• Participate in the evaluation and adoption of emerging security technologies to improve threat detection, prevention, and response.
• Support the design and implementation of innovative systems to fortify and advance Garmin's Identity & Access Management (IAM) Systems and support an extensive suite of tools essential for improving and enhancing Garmin's IAM framework.
• Communicate security findings and strategies effectively to diverse stakeholders at all organizational levels, proving a solid understanding of IAM principles.
• Document and explain complex technologies and new processes to management and end users.
• Automate manual tasks using scripting language(s) such as PowerShell, Python, and/or BASH.
• Stay up to date with the latest security trends, vulnerabilities, attack vectors, and emerging threats to ensure the effectiveness of Garmin's IAM services.
• Actively develop relevant skills to grow technical depth
  
  
  

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, Business or another relevant field AND a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• Expertise in the management of enterprise Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) services
• Experience leading complex implementations of IGA services and advising on best practices. Examples:
• Experience managing Active Directory Domain Services
• Experience managing Entra ID
• Practical experience with modern authentication standards such as OIDC, SAML, and OAuth in real-world environments
• Experience using developer tooling such as code repositories and CI/CD platforms.
• Communicate effectively with team members and stakeholders through strong verbal, written, and people skills.
• Contribute positively to a collaborative, team-focused environment.
• Needs to proactively solve moderately complex problems with a strong, solutions-oriented mindset and a record of delivering effective resolutions.
• Manage time, priorities, and follow-up tasks independently.
• Consistently deliver well-organized, high-quality documentation aligned with team expectations.
• Understand core information technology services such as networking, storage, databases, and web-based services.
• Experience supporting Identity and Access Management (IAM) systems and solutions.
  
  

Desired Qualifications

• Experience with Azure or AWS public cloud services
• Experience with certificate management including PKI.
• Experience with Role based access management for organizations and individuals.
• Experience troubleshooting user and systemic issues affecting business functions.
• Familiarity with scripting or query languages (e.g., Python, PowerShell, KQL, SPL, SQL, LDAP)
• Develop, test, and implement scripts to support automation initiatives, ensuring robust and reliable operations.
• An understanding of, and experience using container-based platforms and related services.
• Implement and manage single-sign-on, multifactor authentication, and passwordless solutions, ensuring alignment with organizational policies.
  
  
  

Garmin International is an equal opportunity employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, citizenship, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, veteran's status, age or disability.

This position is eligible for Garmin's benefit program. Details can be found here: Garmin Benefits