Security, Identity & Access Manager

Job Description

Job Req ID: 59932

Posting Date: 23rd June 2026

Closing Date: 7th July 2026

Function: Cloud Infrastructure

Location: Manchester or Ipswich Adastral

About the role

Join BT’s Network Cloud team and play a key role in protecting critical national infrastructure.

As a Security, Identity & Access Manager, you’ll lead the delivery of secure access controls across complex cloud platforms, ensuring services remain resilient, compliant, and secure. This is a hands-on leadership role, combining technical expertise with team leadership to shape how identity and privileged access is managed at scale.

This role requires 3 days in office & can be based in either Manchester or Ipswich

SC Clearance eligibility is required

What you’ll be doing

• Lead the delivery of Identity & Access Management (IAM) and Privileged Access Management (PAM) across Network Cloud
• Provide day-to-day leadership to a small team of engineers while remaining hands-on technically
• Design and implement secure access controls across platforms (Linux, OpenStack, Kubernetes)
• Own and operate privileged access solutions (e.g. CyberArk)
• Enforce least privilege, RBAC, and secure authentication (SSO, MFA)
• Drive automation of account lifecycle management using tooling and pipelines
• Ensure compliance with security policies and regulatory requirements (e.g. TSA)
• Support audit and risk management activities, including resolving findings
• Collaborate with engineering, security, and vendor teams to improve secure-by-design practices

Essential Skills / Experience

• Proven ability to lead delivery and support a technical team
• Strong experience in IAM and/or PAM (e.g. CyberArk)
• Hands-on experience with Linux systems and access controls
• Experience working in cloud or large-scale infrastructure environments
• Understanding of security standards, risk, and compliance frameworks
• Experience in automation and scripting (e.g. Python, Terraform, Ansible)
• SC Clearance eligibility

Desirable Skills / Experience

• Experience in Network Cloud or telecoms environments
• Knowledge of TSA or regulated infrastructure environments
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines (e.g. Jenkins)
• Exposure to network security or DDoS platforms

Our Package

• On target 10% on target bonus​
• BT Pension scheme, minimum 5% Employee contribution, BT contribution 10%​
• From January 2025, equal family leave: receive 18 weeks at full pay, 8 weeks at half pay and 26 weeks at the statutory rate. It’s for all parents, no matter how your family is made up.​
• Enhanced women’s health support: including help with menopause symptoms, cancer screenings, period care and more.​
• 25 days annual leave (not including bank holidays), increasing with service​
• 24/7 private virtual GP appointments for UK colleagues​
• 2 weeks carer’s leave ​
• World-class training and development opportunities​
• Option to join BT Shares Saving schemes.

BT Group is the UK’s leading communications group and the holding company behind some of the country’s most recognised brands – including BT, EE, Openreach and Plusnet. Our purpose is as simple as it is ambitious: we connect for good. Our customers include consumers, small, medium and large businesses, public sector organisations and other communications providers.

BT Group’s role is about setting direction, unlocking value and creating the conditions for our brands and businesses to thrive.

Having come through the most capital-intensive phase of our fibre investment, our focus now is on what comes next – simplifying how we operate, using technology and AI to work smarter, and organising ourselves to serve customers better and grow sustainably. Group teams shape strategy, policy, brand, capital allocation and transformation, helping the whole organisation perform at its best.

We have a singular culture that unites all our people: we are customer-first challengers, who are committed, clear and connected. These behaviours unite us as one team to deliver for our colleagues, our customers, our stakeholders and the country. Joining BT Group means working at the heart of a business that matters to the UK, with the opportunity to shape decisions, influence outcomes and help set the future course of one of the country’s most important companies.