Manager, Cloud Engineering Lead

5+ years of hands-on experience designing and engineering integrations across Microsoft 365, Azure, and SaaS platforms—covering app registrations, authentication protocols (SAML/OAuth/OIDC), Single Sign-On, Conditional Access, and secure onboarding patterns.

Demonstrated leadership in end-to-end SaaS and cloud application onboarding, including intake, requirements gathering, secure design, engineering, UAT, deployment, and operational readiness.

Experience building or managing SaaS hardening standards in partnership with Cybersecurity teams, including continuous security evaluation and adoption of industry best practices.

Strong understanding of Zero Trust principles and their application in identity, access, and cloud security architectures.

Experience with structured deployment practices, including UAT, change management, release cycles, and coordinated cutovers.

Experience with automation and workflow design, including designing approval flows, triggers, and guardrails that improve operational reliability.

Lead engineering work for cloud application integrations, intake and requirements gathering through secure design, engineering, deployment, and operational handoff.

Design and deploy Single-Sign On integration patterns using Microsoft Entra and ensure alignment with LA28’s Architecture principles and Cybersecurity controls.

Establish a SaaS hardening control set in collaboration with Cyber Security team

Evaluate and apply industry best practices for hardening for SaaS applications

Partner with internal stakeholders to advise on security best practices for existing or Line of Business SaaS applications

Partner with Applications and Architecture team to develop secure, scalable integrations between enterprise systems, SaaS applications, IAM platforms, and security tooling (SIEM/SOC pipelines, logging, monitoring).