avepoint · New York, New York, United States
About the position: The Principal Architect for Identity Security will serve as the senior technical authority for the security architecture of AvePoint’s identity resilience initiatives. This role is focused on how enterprise identity providers, identity control planes, privileged access systems, application identities, and hybrid identity environments are secured, trusted, contained, recovered, and validated before, during, and after a disaster or identity compromise. Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID are two of the most important identity platforms for this role, but the scope is broader than any single provider. This role is intentionally separate from a platform-specific backup and recovery architect role. Backup and recovery architects may own the core backup, restore, rollback, topology, and source-of-authority architecture for specific platforms. This identity security architect owns the threat model, control-plane security, recovery trust model, incident-response integration points, secure restore guardrails, and post-recovery validation requirements that ensure identity resilience platforms can be trusted in adversarial conditions. The ideal candidate has deep hands-on experience securing complex enterprise identity environments, including Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, hybrid identity, privileged access, application and workload identities, federation, identity governance integrations, and identity incident response. They can speak credibly with CISOs, identity architects, incident responders, platform engineers, and product leaders, while translating that expertise into product architecture, security requirements, and customer-facing recovery guidance. This is not a generic IAM governance role and not a pure SOC analyst role. The right person understands identity as Tier-0 infrastructure, knows how attackers persist across identity systems, and can design product workflows that help customers prepare, recover, and validate a trusted known-go…
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