Impulse Space

Identity Governance Engineer

2651 Manhattan Beach Blvd, Redondo Beach, CA 90278

On-site · Full-time · $140k–$180k (as posted)

First seen by offpeak October 6, 2026

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As an Identity Governance Engineer at Impulse, you will maintain, enhance, and scale our enterprise identity and access management capabilities. This role will help ensure that users, devices, administrators, applications, and other identities have appropriate access throughout their lifecycle. The Identity Governance Engineer will work across Information Security, IT, Engineering, and business teams to strengthen identity governance, authentication, privileged access, directory services, and identity automation across corporate, cloud, and regulated environments. This is a hands-on engineering role for someone with strong experience in Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, identity governance, Conditional Access, and enterprise authentication technologies.

Responsibilities

3+ years of professional relative experience
Maintain and enhance enterprise Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) capabilities
Manage and improve identity lifecycle processes, including provisioning, deprovisioning, access changes, and periodic access reviews
Maintain and enhance Microsoft Active Directory and Microsoft Entra ID, including users, groups, roles, privileged identities, and hybrid identity integrations
Maintain and continuously improve Microsoft Entra Conditional Access, authentication methods, and identity security policies
Support and enhance certificate-based authentication for user and device identities
Maintain and improve Privileged Identity Management (PIM) and integrations with Privileged Access Management (PAM) capabilities
Maintain enterprise SSO, federation, and automated provisioning integrations using technologies such as SAML, OAuth/OIDC, and SCIM
Govern employee, contractor, partner, B2B, service account, application, and other non-human identities
Maintain and enhance identity governance across Microsoft 365, Azure, AWS, SaaS applications, and enterprise systems
Develop automation using technologies such as PowerShell, Microsoft Graph, REST APIs, and Python. Partner with Security Operations and Security Engineering to monitor, investigate, and remediate identity-related security risks. Maintain identity and access controls supporting organizational security and compliance requirements

Minimum Qualifications

5+ years of professional relative experience
Experience in Identity and Access Management, Identity Governance, Security Engineering, or a related discipline
Strong hands-on experience administering and engineering Microsoft Active Directory
Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Entra ID / Azure AD and hybrid identity environments
Experience managing Conditional Access, MFA, authentication methods, and privileged access
Experience with identity lifecycle management, RBAC, least privilege, access reviews, and entitlement governance
Experience with enterprise authentication and federation technologies such as SAML, OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, and SCIM
Experience with scripting and automation using PowerShell and APIs. Working knowledge of PKI, X.509 certificates, and certificate-based authentication
Strong troubleshooting, documentation, and communication skills

Preferred Skills and Experience

Experience with Microsoft Entra ID Governance, including Entitlement Management, Access Reviews, Lifecycle Workflows, and PIM
Experience with Entra certificate-based authentication, Active Directory certificate authentication, 802.1X/EAP-TLS, and user/device certificates
Experience with enterprise PAM technologies. Experience governing identity and access across Azure, AWS, and SaaS environments
Experience with B2B/external identity and non-human identity governance
Experience securing Active Directory and Entra ID against identity-based attacks
Experience with SIEM and identity security monitoring
Experience working in aerospace, defense, government contracting, or another regulated industry
Familiarity with CMMC, NIST SP 800-171, NIST SP 800-172, or NIST SP 800-53

Additional Information:

Compensation bands are determined by role, level, location, and alignment with market data. Individual level and base pay is determined on a case-by-case basis and may vary based on job-related skills, education, experience, technical capabilities and internal equity. In addition to base salary, for full-time hires, you may also be eligible for long-term incentives, in the form of stock options, and access to medical, vision & dental coverage as well as access to a 401(k) retirement plan.

Impulse Space’s spacecraft manufacturing business is subject to U.S. export regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). This position requires applicants to be either U.S. Persons (i.e., U.S. citizen, U.S. national, lawful permanent U.S. resident (green card holder), an individual granted asylum in the U.S., or an individual admitted in U.S. refugee status) or persons eligible to obtain an export license from the U.S. Departments of State, Commerce, or other applicable U.S. government agencies. Learn more about the ITAR here.

Impulse Space is an Equal Opportunity Employer; employment with Impulse Space is governed on the basis of merit, competence and qualifications and will not be influenced in any manner by race, color, religion, gender, national origin/ethnicity, veteran status, disability status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, mental or physical disability or any other legally protected status.

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