Cybersecurity Manager – Enterprise Authentication Security Engineering (Remote)
Company Overview
What’s the best place we’ve ever built? The place where we work. At Home Depot, our goal is to provide the highest level of service, the broadest selection of products, and the most competitive prices. As the world’s largest home improvement specialty retailer, we operate more than 2,200 retail stores across North America. And each of our associates are focused one thing — helping our customers build and improve their homes, businesses, and ultimately their lives.
Position Purpose
Position Purpose:
The Home Depot is looking to hire a Manager of Enterprise Authentication Security Engineering to lead the team that owns authentication for every employee, application, and workload. You will run the engineering organization behind our enterprise single sign-on platforms, centered on Microsoft Entra, and engineer cloud-native, reliably operated authentication services that support millions of authentications every day.
This is a technical leadership role. You will set technical direction, coach engineers, and partner with security, infrastructure, and application teams to enable reliable and consistently performant authentication at scale. The ideal candidate combines deep authentication expertise with an engineering mindset: automation, continuous delivery, and operational rigor.
What You'll Do
- Lead, mentor, and grow a team of authentication security engineers, setting clear goals and fostering a culture of ownership and continuous improvement.
- Own engineering and L3 operations for enterprise SSO platforms, both commercial and homegrown.
- Drive engineering practices that treat authentication as a production service: infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, and frequent, low-risk releases.
- Design and operate authentication services on cloud infrastructure with strong security, availability, and scalability characteristics.
- Partner with security architecture, infrastructure, application, and compliance teams to translate authentication standards (OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SAML) into secure, reusable solutions.
- Manage incidents and drive blameless post-incident reviews that lead to durable fixes.
- Communicate status, risks, and strategy to senior leadership and stakeholders.
What You Bring
- Hands-on experience implementing and operating enterprise single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID.
- Experience with DevOps practices and continuous release environments, including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and automated deployment.
- Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure (Azure, AWS, or GCP) and how to build secure, resilient services on it.
- Software development experience: while you won't be writing code, you should have prior experience and be able to read and review it.
- Experience leading engineers or leading technical teams, with the ability to coach, set priorities, and deliver results through others.
- Strong understanding of authentication and authorization protocols and security fundamentals.
- Clear written and verbal communication, with the ability to work across technical and non-technical stakeholders.
- Track record of running large-scale transformations, including stakeholder alignment, phased rollout, and change management.
Nice to Have
- Experience with PingFederate, including migrating from or running it alongside Entra.
- Experience applying SRE practices to authentication: SLOs and error budgets, observability, capacity planning, and automated recovery.
- Familiarity with workload identity and non-human identity (NHI) authentication.
- Experience with platform engineering to support large-scale application onboarding, such as self-service tooling, templates, and paved-road patterns.
- Experience designing offline authentication, including how users and systems authenticate when connectivity to the identity provider is limited or unavailable.
- Experience with identity verification (identity proofing), including integrating verification services and assurance levels into authentication flows.
Key Responsibilities:
- 100% Deliver Execution, Plans & Aligns, Develop Others – Collaborate across teams to reduce vulnerabilities, risks and incident management; Drive execution of solution delivery; Guide teams in strategy, alignment, analysis and execution to ensure priorities objectives/deliverable are met; Provide leadership, mentoring and coaching to direct reports
Direct Manager/Direct Reports:
- This position typically reports to Sr. Manager or Director
- This position has 6-10 Direct Reports
Travel Requirements:
- No travel required.
Physical Requirements:
- Most of the time is spent sitting in a comfortable position and there is frequent opportunity to move about. On rare occasions there may be a need to move or lift light articles.
Working Conditions:
- Located in a comfortable indoor area. Any unpleasant conditions would be infrequent and not objectionable.
Minimum Qualifications:
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 2+ years of previous leadership experience
Minimum Education:
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
Minimum Years of Work Experience:
- 8+
Competencies:
- Decision Quality
- Drives Engagement
- Develops Talent
- Manages Conflict
Pay Range
The pay range for this position is between $170,000.00 – $240,000.00*
Work Location
Remote/virtual – Associates in remote roles have the flexibility to complete their job responsibilities primarily from home. Depending on the position, a remote role may be entirely virtual, or it may require living within a commutable distance of an assigned company office to support occasional, in-person responsibilities.
Building Location
GA01
VIRTUAL
Atlanta, GA
Once you’ve applied, please come back and apply for other jobs at this store and any store near you.
Online Assessments
As part of our application process for this role, there is an online assessment that you will need to complete. You’ll be directed to the link to start the assessment immediately after submitting your application. Once you click on the assessment link, you’ll have 96 hours to complete it. You may stop and restart the assessment as many times as needed during your 96-hour time frame. The assessment should only take about 20 minutes to complete.
During the assessment, we’ll ask you questions about how you approach work and various other work-related situations. The questions are based on characteristics that are related to performing successfully in hourly roles at The Home Depot, including: how you work as part of a team; whether you are responsible, dependable and thorough; and your ability to learn new skills. For Store/Merchandising roles we will ask a few additional questions around how you help customers and drive sales.
If you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation related to the assessment, or you would like to obtain more information about the assessment, click here.
Benefits
Parental Leave
Paid parental leave to bond with your new addition
Profit-Sharing Bonuses
Merit increases and performance bonuses
Employee Stock Purchase Program
Home Depot stock at a 15% discount through payroll deductions
Retirement Plans
401(k) savings plan with company matching
Health & Wellness
Medical, dental, vision insurance plans and more
Tuition Reimbursement
Tuition reimbursement, scholarships, and discounted tuition rates
Paid Time Off Benefits
Salaried associates are eligible for 2 weeks of vacation in their first year. FT hourly will be eligible for 40 hours of paid vacation time after 6 months of continuous service. For positions in Washington State, Spokane, and Tacoma only: Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 40 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater. For positions in Seattle only: Salary and Temporary associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked; FT associates will earn 1 hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked or 4 hours per month, whichever is greater.
Explore Similar Jobs
Find the Right Job for You
Discover Your Next Roles
Search for your next role by location, job title or keyword. Your next opportunity may be closer than you think.