Lead Authentication Engineer _ Vice President _ Cybersecurity Engineering

We're seeking someone to join our Identity Access Management Team to support strategic authentication modernization roadmap team as Lead Authentication Engineer in Cyber Data Risk & Resilience division.

Role is expected to be responsible for the design, integration, implementation, and operationalization of enterprise authentication solutions used across the workforce identity ecosystem.

In the Technology division, we leverage innovation to build the connections and capabilities that power our Firm, enabling our clients and colleagues to redefine markets and shape the future of our communities.

Within CDRR - Cyber, the IAM team manages and implement controls which mitigate operational risks related to data leakage, unintentional or intentional disruption of production services and fraud.

Since 1935, Morgan Stanley is known as a global leader in financial services, always evolving and innovating to better serve our clients and our communities in more than 40 countries around the world.





What you'll do in the role:
- Lead Hands-On Authentication Engineering: design, build, integrate, and ship secure, scalable solutions for human and non-human identities (bots, service accounts, applications, agentic systems)
- Own Enterprise Authentication & Federation: implement and harden OIDC/OAuth2, SAML, SSO, FIDO2/WebAuthn, PKI (mTLS, cert lifecycle), API auth, and Unix/Linux authentication
- Integrate and Customize IAM Platforms: deliver end-to-end integrations across Entra ID, Ping Identity, SailPoint, CyberArk, HashiCorp Vault, HSMs, IDM/LDAP, and RCBI in cloud and hybrid environments.
- Drive Reliability and Automation at Scale: operate and evolve large-scale IAM estates with HA/DR, performance tuning, IaC (Terraform), config management (Ansible/Puppet/Chef), CI/CD, observability, and secure deployment strategies.
- Partner and Operate Across Teams: collaborate with product/platform leads to scale a

📌 Lead Authentication Engineer _Vice President _Cybersecurity Engineering (Bengaluru)
🏢 Morgan Stanley
📍 Bengaluru