Vice President, Identity & Access Management

Locations: Austin New York NY San Francisco

Vice President Identity & Access Management

About the Department

The Cloudflare Security teams mission is to protect both Cloudflare and our customers. We are trusted principled partners to the organization enabling the business to build ship and operate products securely. Our team is global diverse and dedicated to solving complex security challenges at a massive scale.

About the Role

As the VP of Identity & Access Management (IAM) you will establish own and lead the global strategy for Cloudflares internal IAM program. You will be responsible for building and scaling the team processes and technologies required to support secure and streamlined access for all Cloudflare employees contractors and consultants.

This is a critical leadership role that will enhance our enterprise security posture ensure regulatory compliance and optimize the user access experience. You will work collaboratively with senior leaders across the organization to establish forward-thinking IAM governance and implement cutting-edge technologies ensuring our program remains innovative and effective as we scale.

What Youll Do

• Develop and own the comprehensive global strategy roadmap innovation resourcing and budget for Cloudflares Identity & Access Management program aligning with a Zero Trust philosophy.
• Lead mentor and grow a high-performing globally distributed team of IAM professionals fostering a culture of innovation collaboration and excellence.
• Act as the principal partner and senior advisor to stakeholders across the organization (including Engineering IT Legal and Compliance) to define implement and enforce IAM standards processes and policies aligned with global regulatory controls.
• Drive the continuous evolution of our IAM program by identifying evaluating and implementing cutting-edge technologies and best practices.
• Oversee all IAM operations including the architecture and management of authentication and authorization for all user device and application identities across our complex federated environment.
• Champion IAM best practices throughout the company effectively communicating complex concepts and strategies to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Requirements

• Extensive experience developing architecting and leading large-scale enterprise-wide Identity & Access Management programs.
• Demonstrated experience building leading and mentoring high-performing globally distributed teams across multiple time zones.
• Deep expertise in core IAM concepts and technologies including: least privilege Privileged Access Management (PAM) Segregation of Duties (SoD) RBAC/ABAC conditional access authentication authorization federation MFA user provisioning attestation secrets management and Zero Trust principles.
• Proven experience managing identities authentication and authorization for user device and application identities within a complex federated environment.
• Exceptional communication and influencing skills with the proven ability to motivate cross-functional teams and align senior leadership on complex security strategies.
• Proven experience developing and implementing IAM policies standards and processes in alignment with global regulatory and compliance frameworks (e.g. SOX GDPR ISO 27001).

Desirable

• Direct experience managing IAM in a high-growth cloud-native technology company.
• Relevant security certifications (e.g. CISSP CISM).
• Experience managing IAM programs that include both corporate and production/engineering environments.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For Bay Area based hires: Estimated annual salary of $295000 - $405000
• For NYC based hires: Estimated annual salary of $282000 - $387000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflares equity plan.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

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