Staff Engineer - Identity and Access Management
Elevance Health · Atlanta, GA
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Jul 7, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A staff-level engineering role focused on designing and operating enterprise Identity and Access Management systems, including building an IAM platform to support agentic AI and centralizing access governance at scale. Day-to-day work spans architecture, cloud migration, incident response, and leading implementations of authentication and network security technologies. Best suited to engineers with deep IAM expertise and hands-on experience with cloud-native, microservices-based environments.
Senior level · 5+ years · Indianapolis, IN · Full-time
Advertised as Staff, but the requirements read as Senior.
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 70 people in the Indianapolis, IN area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (information security analysts). range 45–110
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $100,216 (middle half $74,401–$131,683).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The role is titled 'Staff Engineer' but the actual requirements — 5 years minimum experience, no explicit cross-team or org-wide technical authority scope — support a Senior band rather than Staff. The 'Staff' title appears to be a level label used internally by Elevance Health rather than a signal of org-wide technical leadership scope.
SOC classification is a genuine judgment call: the role is framed around information security (IAM, incident response, security policy) which points to 15-1212, but the preferred skills are heavily software-engineering-oriented (Java, Spring, microservices, CI/CD, Kubernetes), making 15-1252 a credible alternative.
All skills listed appear under the 'Preferred Skills, Experiences and Competencies' heading and are therefore marked preferred. The only hard-gated capability is general IAM experience, which is implied by the role's core responsibilities and minimum requirements narrative.
The degree requirement accepts 'any combination of education and experience, which would provide an equivalent background,' so no minimum degree is hard-required.
No compensation figures are provided in the posting.
The posting lists no specific primary office location beyond a general hybrid policy; Elevance Health is headquartered in Indianapolis, IN, which is used as the CBSA. Alternate locations may be considered for candidates within commuting distance of any Elevance Health office.
Terraform and Helm are listed together as infrastructure-as-code tools; they serve different functions (provisioning vs. Kubernetes packaging) but are grouped as a single requirement in the JD — captured as one skill with Helm as an alternative. RabbitMQ and Kafka are listed as event-driven architecture examples and are treated as interchangeable alternatives for that requirement.
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