Who is SimSpace:
SimSpace launched in 2015 with a singular purpose – addressing the most urgent and sophisticated cybersecurity challenges to reduce risk for our most vulnerable and valuable infrastructure. The organizations around the world that we depend on every day to keep our loved ones safe and secure. Our healthcare facilities, schools, financial institutions, transit centers, grocery stores, and workplaces just to name a few. To deliver global resiliency, we provide an elite cyber range platform to curate unassailable cyber defenses, data driven decisions, cutting edge training labs, live attack scenarios, and extensive individual and dynamic team readiness training.
SimSpace works as OneTeam to elevate humanity around the world. We are committed to continuously improving and delivering a cultivated member experience whether that is accomplished through focusing on supporting our client’s teams or our own mission driven SimSpacers.
We are an international company headquartered in Boston’s Fort Point in the U.S. If you are interested in elevating the technology and creative solutions necessary to secure and safeguard our future while working alongside others who share your passion for purpose and development, we want to meet you!

WHY SHOULD YOU CHOOSE A CAREER AT SIMSPACE?

We are an organization that is focused on building our culture and mindfully enhancing our atmosphere everyday which is why we have collaborated on an integral value system. Our governing philosophy of being Human Centered is deeply embedded within our value system. We apply this philosophy to every one of our internal team members, external clients, and their customers.

Our core values:

• Serve to Protect – We provide safe space, deliver on the mission, and elevate humanity
• Acquire Understanding – We seek and provide clarity 10x, cultivate comprehension, and believe information goes both all ways
• Operate as Innovators – We stay curious, practice consistency over intensity, and continue to be the change we need in the world
• Teamwork Without Borders – We are never alone, we solve for all, and keep people at the heart of everything we do

SimSpace is looking for an Engineering Manager, Identity & Access Management to lead our IAM and back-end services team building foundational infrastructure for the SimSpace cyber range platform. The ideal candidate will possess strong leadership skills to guide and mentor a growing team with a proven track record of building secure, scalable identity and authorization systems from the ground up, driving engineering excellence and fostering a collaborative, security-first development culture.
In this position, you’ll lead your team through greenfield development of critical platform services, collaborating closely with security, platform, and product teams to build robust authentication, authorization, and supporting back-end services. The focus is on providing engineering management and technical leadership for our identity infrastructure, encompassing user authentication, fine-grained authorization, resource management, and compliance systems. Specifically, this position will be responsible for:

WHAT ARE THE QUALIFICATIONS TO APPLY? TO BE SUCCESSFUL AS AN ENGINEERING MANAGER, IDENTITY & ACCESS MANAGEMENT, YOU NEED:

• Strong knowledge of identity and access management concepts, authentication protocols (OIDC, SAML, OAuth), and authorization patterns.
• Proven track record of leading engineering teams to deliver secure, scalable identity or back-end platform services.
• Strong leadership and communication skills, with the ability to drive technical decisions and mentor growing engineering teams.
• Experience with compliance frameworks (SOC2) and security-first development practices.
• Understanding of modern authorization approaches including RBAC, ABAC, or relationship-based access control (ReBAC).
• 6+ years of experience in back-end development, platform engineering, or identity systems with at least 2-4 years in management.
• Experience with identity technologies such as Keycloak, Auth0, Okta, OPA, or similar identity providers and policy engines.
• Can demonstrate that as a tech lead or IC had designed and built secure APIs, distributed systems, and compliance-focused logging and auditing systems.
• Experience with policy engines, fine-grained authorization systems, or similar declarative access control technologies.
• Experience with SSO integrations, directory services, and enterprise identity management patterns.
• Bachelor’s in computer science, engineering, or related field (or equivalent experience).

• Lead and manage a team of 6+ engineers responsible for designing and building our greenfield IAM platform and supporting back-end services.
• Collaborate with Staff and Principal Engineers to implement the technical architecture for authentication services, authorization policies, and identity integrations.
• Collaborate with platform and product teams to ensure IAM services seamlessly support cyber range functionality and user experiences.
• Develop and maintain project roadmaps for identity platform capabilities, resource management systems, audit infrastructure, and other back-end services.
• Work closely with engineering leadership to establish security standards, API design patterns, and development practices for back-end services.
• Mentor, coach, and grow team members promoting their professional growth and technical expertise.
• Ensure compliance with security frameworks, audit requirements, and regulatory standards throughout the development lifecycle.
• Empower the team to work independently owning key technical decisions and outcomes.