IAM Director

2 Months ago • 8 Years + • Administrative

Job Summary

Job Description

The IAM Director at Epic Games leads a team of producers, engineers, and analysts responsible for authentication, authorization, federation, governance, and PKI services. This role involves planning, designing, implementing, and driving workforce Identity and Access Management (IAM) services, focusing on user experience and compliance. The director collaborates with various departments to develop IAM strategies, ensure compliance, and handle escalations. They will drive strategic planning for IAM, manage product and account lifecycles, and implement IAM solutions and controls, ensuring the security and auditability of sensitive information.
Must have:
  • Proven IAM leadership in large enterprises
  • 8+ years IT experience in large consumer base company
  • Deep understanding of cloud IAM solutions (Okta, Sailpoint, etc.)
  • Familiarity with role-based access and user access reviews
  • Excellent communication and problem-solving skills
Good to have:
  • CISA, CISM, or CISSP certification
  • Experience with financial compliance
Perks:
  • 100% premium coverage for medical, dental, vision
  • Long-term disability, life insurance, 401k match
  • Robust mental well-being program
  • Unlimited PTO and sick time
  • Paid sabbatical after 7 years

Job Details

WHAT MAKES US EPIC?

At the core of Epic’s success are talented, passionate people. Epic prides itself on creating a collaborative, welcoming, and creative environment. Whether it’s building award-winning games or crafting engine technology that enables others to make visually stunning interactive experiences, we’re always innovating.

Being Epic means being a part of a team that continually strives to do right by our community and users. We’re constantly innovating to raise the bar of engine and game development.

IT

What We Do

Create and maintain a proactive and stable IT environment as well as provide IT support to our Epic people. You will be empowered to shape processes that deliver optimized IT service across our business. Work with emerging technologies while enabling IT success for everyone.

What You'll Do

Join our team as the Identity and Access Manager and take the lead in overseeing our talented group of IAM engineers and analysts. You'll be responsible for planning, designing, implementing, and driving forward workforce Identity and Access Management (IAM) services across the organization, focusing on improving the user experience and meeting compliance requirements. You'll drive collaboration between information security, human resources, technology services, and other business and risk stakeholders to grant proper access to entitlements, ensuring the security and auditability of the organization's sensitive information. Work across departments to develop and communicate strategies regarding identity and access management and ensure that the direction meets the established organizational standards. Your expertise will be instrumental in guiding Epic towards maintaining the highest standards in security and technology compliance.

In this role, you will

  • Lead a team of producers, engineers, and analysts for services including authentication, authorization, federation, governance, and PKI
  • Work with other teams to collect and prioritize requirements, deliver services and manage product and account lifecycles
  • Ensure compliance and facilitate testing of policies and controls in support of regulatory compliance by collaborating with line of business partners and stakeholders across the company
  • Drive strategic planning for IAM and partner with producers to drive the IAM roadmap, handle escalations for administrative support for IAM services, and formulate and implement IAM solutions and controls

What we're looking for

  • Proven IAM leadership experience in a large enterprise. Specific degree not required. CISA, CISM, or CISSP preferred
  • At least 8 years of IT experience for a company with a large consumer base and similar industry preferred hands-on experience with financial compliance or similar in an enterprise environment
  • Deep understanding of cloud identity and access management solutions, such as Okta, Sailpoint IdentityNow, Active Directory, Entra ID, GCP IAM, and AWS IAM, with a general understanding of core IAM concepts such as single sign-on, multi-factor authentication, directory services, and application integration
  • Familiarity with role-based access and user access reviews in an enterprise environment
  • Effective communicator with excellent interpersonal skills, strong analytical skills, and a structured problem-solving approach. Must also be able to innovate and multi-task with minimal oversight

EPIC JOB + EPIC BENEFITS = EPIC LIFE

Our intent is to cover all things that are medically necessary and improve the quality of life. We pay 100% of the premiums for both you and your dependents. Our coverage includes Medical, Dental, a Vision HRA, Long Term Disability, Life Insurance & a 401k with competitive match. We also offer a robust mental well-being program through Modern Health, which provides free therapy and coaching for employees & dependents. Throughout the year we celebrate our employees with events and company-wide paid breaks. We offer unlimited PTO and sick time and recognize individuals for 7 years of employment with a paid sabbatical.

ABOUT US

Epic Games spans across 25 countries with 46 studios and 4,500+ employees globally. For over 25 years, we've been making award-winning games and engine technology that empowers others to make visually stunning games and 3D content that bring environments to life like never before. Epic's award-winning Unreal Engine technology not only provides game developers the ability to build high-fidelity, interactive experiences for PC, console, mobile, and VR, it is also a tool being embraced by content creators across a variety of industries such as media and entertainment, automotive, and architectural design. As we continue to build our Engine technology and develop remarkable games, we strive to build teams of world-class talent.

Like what you hear? Come be a part of something Epic!

Epic Games deeply values diverse teams and an inclusive work culture, and we are proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. Learn more about our Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy .

Note to Recruitment Agencies: Epic does not accept any unsolicited resumes or approaches from any unauthorized third party (including recruitment or placement agencies) (i.e., a third party with whom we do not have a negotiated and validly executed agreement). We will not pay any fees to any unauthorized third party. Further details on these matters can be found .

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About The Company

Founded in 1991, Epic Games is a leading interactive entertainment company and provider of 3D engine technology. Epic operates Fortnite, one of the world’s largest games with over 350 million accounts and 2.5 billion friend connections. Epic also develops Unreal Engine, which powers the world’s leading games and is adopted across industries such as film and television, architecture, automotive, manufacturing, and simulation. Through Unreal Engine, Epic Games Store, and Epic Online Services, Epic provides an end-to-end digital ecosystem for developers and creators to build, distribute, and operate games and other content. Epic has over 40 offices worldwide with headquarters in Cary, North Carolina.

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