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IAM Platform Engineer – Authentication, Credentials & PAM

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We tackle the most complex problems in quantitative finance, by bringing scientific clarity to financial complexity.

From our London HQ, we unite world-class researchers and engineers in an environment that values deep exploration and methodical execution - because the best ideas take time to evolve.  Together we’re building a world-class platform to amplify our teams’ most powerful ideas.

Security is foundational to this mission and must be delivered in a way that supports how our engineering teams build and operate complex systems at scale.

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The role

We're looking for an experienced Identity and Access Management (IAM) Platform Engineer to own and evolve our authentication, identity federation, credential management and privileged access platforms.

You will help modernise our identity infrastructure, replacing bespoke authentication patterns with scalable, standards-based IAM services that are secure, automated and easy for engineering teams to consume.

You'll help shape the future of authentication and privileged access within one of the world's leading quantitative research firms, working on large-scale engineering problems rather than traditional operational IAM.

Key responsibilities

Key responsibilities of the role include:

  • Designing, implementing and supporting enterprise authentication and identity federation services
  • Developing standard onboarding patterns for applications using SAML, OAuth2 and OpenID Connect
  • Improving and rationalising our identity provider estate, including PingFederate, PingAM and cloud identity platforms
  • Engineering secure privileged access solutions using Teleport and Just-in-Time access principles
  • Defining standards for service accounts, certificates, secrets and machine identities
  • Building APIs and automation to simplify identity platform operations
  • Partnering with engineering teams to deliver reusable, secure authentication services
  • Improving operational maturity through monitoring, alerting, logging, documentation and automation
  • Supporting migration away from bespoke authentication implementations towards enterprise IAM standards

Who are we looking for?

The ideal candidate will have the following skills and experience:

  • Experience engineering and operating enterprise IAM platforms
  • Experience with enterprise identity providers such as PingFederate, PingAM, Microsoft Entra ID or Okta
  • Strong understanding of authentication, authorisation, Active Directory, LDAP and privileged access management
  • Experience applying modern platform engineering practices, including infrastructure as code, CI/CD, automation and observability
  • Software engineering experience in languages such as C#, Java, Python or Go
  • Experience building APIs and automating identity platform services
  • Experience supporting hybrid on-premises and cloud identity platforms, including Kubernetes

Why join us?

  • Highly competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus.
  • Lunch provided via Just Eat for Business and dedicated barista bar.
  • 35 days’ annual leave.
  • 9% company pension contributions.
  • Informal dress code and excellent work-life balance.
  • Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance.
  • Cycle-to-work scheme.
  • Monthly company events.

Relocation Support

If you're relocating from within the UK or internationally to join us in London, we offer a comprehensive range of support services to assist you all the way. Costs associated with your relocation and immigration are covered by G-Research.

  • Concierge service: Your personal consultant will arrange travel, help find your new home and manage your move. They're also on hand to help with more bespoke requests too.

  • Immigration support: We'll partner you with an expert consultant who will guide you through the immigration process.
Location: London
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Our Benefits

Our benefits are designed with our people in mind, with a wide range of flexible options tailored to your needs.

Finance
  • Company pension scheme
  • Annual discretionary bonus scheme
  • Season ticket loan
  • Give as you Earn (GAYE)
  • Risk protection benefits
  • Charity fundraising matching scheme
  • Generous relocation and immigration assistance
Health
  • Comprehensive private health insurance, including GP access, dental and vision
  • Enhanced health support for male and female health, fertility, family forming, maternity and menopause journeys
  • Healthcare cash plan covering a wide range of routine and complimentary healthcare expenses
  • Employee Assistance and Wellness Programmes
Lifestyle
  • 30 days’ annual leave, with an extra five days for those who are office based
  • Enhanced leave polices to support our people and their family needs
  • Back-up dependent care for children, adults and pets
  • Complimentary travel insurance for our people and their families
  • Cycle schemes
  • Gym and Fitness membership subsidies
  • Free lunch and complimentary barista bar
  • Regular company socials
  • Informal dress code and excellent work-life balance
  • Talks from world-class guest speakers
We want benefits to work for our people and use a flexible benefits platform to support this – colleagues can opt-in or out of certain benefits and can customise cover levels depending on their lifestyle and personal needs.