Senior Platform Engineer - Identity & Security (m/f/d) 80-100% (Zürich, CH)

Zurich Insurance
Zurich
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Communication","Stakeholder management","Empathy","Critical thinking","E2E ownership"]

Lead the technical direction and engineering standards for Zurich’s Enterprise Identity Platform, modernizing it around Keycloak and embedding Zero Trust and fine-grained authorization. Evolve authentication and authorization across OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and PKCE, while phasing out legacy federation. Partner with product and business domains to translate insurance requirements into secure identity outcomes, including AI-augmented and event-driven workflows.

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Zurich Insurance
Zurich Insurance
5 days ago

Senior Platform Engineer - Identity & Security (m/f/d) 80-100% (Zürich, CH)

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Job Summary

Lead the technical direction and engineering standards for Zurich’s Enterprise Identity Platform, modernizing it around Keycloak and embedding Zero Trust and fine-grained authorization. Evolve authentication and authorization across OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and PKCE, while phasing out legacy federation. Partner with product and business domains to translate insurance requirements into secure identity outcomes, including AI-augmented and event-driven workflows.
Location: Zurich
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set technical direction, principles, and reference architectures for identity and security engineering, guiding others along the journey.
  • •Shape the evolution and operations of the Enterprise Identity Platform (Keycloak), including OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, and PKCE, while steering the phase-out of legacy federation.
  • •Develop and communicate the target identity and security picture for Agentic AI, including access management for AI agents, agentic workflows, workload identity, fine-grained authorization, and Zero Trust.
  • •Define engineering standards, reviews, and quality gates across internal teams, partners, and AI-augmented workflows to ensure quality, security, and knowledge transfer.
  • •Partner with business domains and Digital Products to translate insurance requirements into robust identity and security outcomes.

Key Requirements

  • •7+ years in software or security engineering, ideally in insurance, banking, or related financial services, with expertise in modern authentication (OAuth 2.0, OIDC, SAML, PKCE, token lifecycle, federation, LDAP) and hands-on Keycloak experience.
  • •Hands-on experience with Agentic AI access management and security concepts (agent identity, agent-to-agent auth, MCP security, prompt injection defense, and supply chain security for AI components).
  • •Strong understanding of fine-grained authorization (OpenFGA, OPA, Cedar) and Zero Trust.
  • •Experience with cloud-native engineering (Azure and/or AWS, containers, event streaming).
  • •Fluent in English (spoken and written); German is a plus.
Experience:InsuranceBankingFinancial servicesAgentic AI
Skills:CommunicationStakeholder managementEmpathyCritical thinkingE2E ownership
Languages:EnglishGerman
Tech Stack:KeycloakOAuth 2.0OIDCSAMLPKCEOpenFGAOPACedarZero TrustLDAPAzureAWSContainersEvent streamingOpenAICopilotClaudeMCP

Company Brief

Zurich Insurance
Zurich Insurance Group is a global insurance company offering a wide range of general insurance and life insurance products and services to individuals, small businesses and large corporations across multiple markets worldwide.
Industry: Insurance
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Zurich, Switzerland
Founded: 1872
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