Cybersecurity IAM Engineer

Cybersecurity IAM Engineer Who We Are

At Upbound Group, we are committed to elevating financial opportunity for all through innovative, inclusive, and technology-driven financial solutions that address the evolving needs and aspirations of consumers. The Company’s customer-facing operating units include industry-leading brands such as Rent-A-Center, Acima and Brigit that facilitate consumer transactions across a wide range of store-based and digital retail channels, including over 2,400 company-branded retail units across the United States, Mexico, New York and Puerto Rico.

Upbound Group, Inc. is headquartered in Plano, Texas.

The Cybersecurity Identity & Access Management Engineer is a senior technical contributor on a dedicated IAM team charged with securing and scaling Upbound Group's enterprise identity platform. In this role, the engineer applies deep Microsoft Entra  and Zero Trust principles to advance identity governance, privileged access management, and entitlement controls across both on-premises and cloud environments - partnering closely with Engineering, IT, and Compliance to align identity solutions with organizational security standards.

The engineer also contributes to the design and delivery of custom IAM provisioning solutions, building automation pipelines that seamlessly connect identity infrastructure with critical business applications, cloud platforms, and HRIS systems.

• Assist in designing, implementing, and managing Microsoft Entra  (Azure AD) environments, including tenant architecture, Conditional Access policies, MFA, passwordless authentication (FIDO2, Windows Hello), and Identity Protection
• Participate in identity lifecycle management: automate user provisioning and deprovisioning workflows via Entra , SCIM-based integrations, and custom automation pipelines
• Implement and govern privileged access using Privileged Identity Management (PIM), just-in-time access controls, and least-privilege RBAC models across Azure subscriptions and resources
• Participate in access governance programs including entitlement management, access reviews, dynamic group policies, and Administrative Units
• Integrate enterprise SSO using SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect protocols for SaaS and on-premises applications
• Support hybrid identity environments including Azure AD Connect / Cloud Sync, LDAP integrations, and federated-to-managed domain transitions
• Monitor and respond to identity-related threats by configuring identity logging, security alerting, and continuous monitoring of sign-in and audit logs
• Assist in securing Azure Container Apps environments, including ingress controls, managed identity configuration, secrets management, network isolation, and Dapr integration security
• Evaluate and assist with hardening IAM functions for cloud-native infrastructure across Azure, AWS and GCP ensuring compliance with Zero Trust principles and organizational security policies.
• Develop and maintain custom IAM provisioning code and internal platform services using Go (Golang) for backend services and React.js for frontend integrations with HRIS platforms
• Partner with Platform Engineering teams to maintain IAM Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform to provision, configure, and manage Azure resources, identity infrastructure, and security controls in a repeatable, auditable manner
• Utilize and maintain CI/CD security pipelines using Git Hub Actions, including automated IAM provisioning workflows to Azure Container Apps environment
• Manage IAM provisioning source code, branching strategies, and code reviews in Git Hub, championing secure development best practices across the team
• Automate, code or script (Bash, Power Shell, Reg Ex and Python) as well as write SQL to query databases as needed
• Develop and maintain documentation including runbooks, architecture diagrams, security standards, and operational procedures
• Collaborate with peers to provide direction on IAM and cloud identity security, advising cross-functional teams (Engineering, IT, Compliance, and Business units) on identity architecture decisions
• Contribute to security incident response related to identity…