Senior Cybersecurity Engineer - Security Services

At General Motors, our Cybersecurity organization protects the company's global operations through secure, scalable solutions that enable innovation. Within Security Enablement, we partner with application teams to integrate enterprise applications into GM's security ecosystem with strong controls, streamlined onboarding, and automation.

We are seeking a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to lead security enablement and automation for enterprise application onboarding. This role will drive secure, scalable integration patterns across GM's identity and access management ecosystem, with a strong focus on automation, standardization, and self-service with guardrails.

The ideal candidate brings deep cybersecurity and IAM expertise, along with a development background and experience building tools or automation that improve operational efficiency and control consistency.

- Lead secure application onboarding design and implementation across the enterprise

- Define and support authentication and authorization patterns including SAML, OAuth 2.0, and OpenID Connect

- Establish scalable standards for identity integration, access management, and application onboarding

- Design and build automation to streamline onboarding, validation, configuration, and support processes

- Develop reusable tools, scripts, APIs, and workflows to reduce manual effort and improve consistency

- Expand self-service capabilities for application teams while maintaining security guardrails

- Partner with application owners, developers, architects, and business stakeholders to gather requirements and guide secure onboarding

- Advise teams on secure integration patterns and control requirements

- Drive onboarding strategy aligned to cybersecurity, IAM, and enterprise architecture goals

- Support deployment and user adoption of enterprise security tools and systems across application teams and stakeholders

- Partner with product, engineering, and security teams to improve security tools by identifying user pain points and providing feedback on features, usability, and integration needs

- Ensure onboarded applications meet internal security standards, policies, and compliance requirements

- Conduct risk assessments and help implement appropriate controls

- Improve onboarding quality through documentation, standardization, and continuous improvement

- Work across Cybersecurity, IAM, infrastructure, and application teams to deliver secure outcomes

- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to team technical direction and roadmap priorities

- Bachelor's degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field

- 6+ years of experience in Cybersecurity, Information Security, or Identity and Access Management

- Strong experience with enterprise IAM integrations in a complex environment

- Hands-on experience with SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and related authentication technologies

- Strong development or automation background, including scripting or programming with Python, PowerShell, JavaScript, Java, or similar

- Experience with cloud identity platforms such as Microsoft Entra ID, AWS, GCP, or similar

- Strong understanding of access control, encryption, and secure application architecture

- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives across cross-functional teams

What Can Give You a Competitive Advantage (Preferred Qualifications):

- Experience in a lead engineering role within Cybersecurity, IAM, or Security Enablement

- Experience building automation using APIs, workflow platforms, infrastructure-as-code, or CI/CD tooling

- Experience improving onboarding through reusable patterns, standards, and engineering guardrails

- Deep knowledge of IAM, federation, and secure application integration

- Ability to balance security, scalability, and user experience

- Strong communication, problem-solving, and collaboration skills

- Ability to influence across teams and manage multiple priorities

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This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

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