Full-Time
Senior IAM Engineer
Altice USA
1,001-5,000 employees
Cable, fiber, and broadband provider
Compensation Overview
$100.2k - $164.7k/yr
No H1B Sponsorship
Plano, TX, USA + 1 more
More locations: Plainview, NY, USA
In Person
Bachelor's
 IT & Security (1) |
|---|
Get referred to Altice USA
See people who can refer or advise you
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Cybersecurity, or related field (or equivalent experience)
- 6+ years of experience in Identity & Access Management, security engineering, or a related technical field
- Strong hands-on experience designing and operating CIAM or identity provider platforms at scale
- Deep understanding of identity standards and protocols (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM, FIDO2/WebAuthn)
- Experience leading authentication modernization or large-scale IAM integration initiatives
- Proficiency in at least one modern programming language (e.g., JavaScript, Python, Java, Go) for building integrations and automation
- Experience implementing Infrastructure-as-Code and CI/CD practices for platform configuration
- Proven ability to perform threat modeling, security reviews, and produce clear technical guidance
- Experience working with compliance frameworks (e.g., SOX, SOC 2, PCI) and supporting audit activities
- Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers and influence technical direction across teams
- CIAM Architecture & Platform Governance: Own the architecture and design of the enterprise customer identity platform, including authentication policy frameworks, authorization models, and identity lifecycle standards
- Define and enforce integration standards across identity protocols (OAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, SAML, SCIM), ensuring consistency and scalability across all applications
- Establish governance practices for platform configuration, including naming standards, policy structures, and change management controls
- Lead the evaluation and adoption of new identity capabilities and platform features aligned to enterprise security and scalability goals
- Authentication Modernization & Technical Leadership: Lead the technical design of enterprise authentication modernization initiatives, defining integration patterns and reference architectures for application teams
- Develop and maintain standardized migration frameworks for onboarding applications to modern CIAM solutions
- Define token design, scope models, and session management strategies aligned to security and business requirements
- Drive adoption of advanced authentication capabilities, including phishing-resistant and passwordless authentication
- Identify and resolve cross-cutting architectural challenges impacting identity integrations across the application portfolio
- Developer Platform & Enablement: Own the IAM developer experience, including integration guides, reference architectures, code samples, and reusable implementation patterns
- Build and maintain reference implementations demonstrating best practices for authentication flows, token validation, and session management
- Design and improve onboarding processes and self-service capabilities for application teams integrating with the CIAM platform
- Lead architecture reviews for complex or high-risk integrations, providing clear, standards-based guidance and decision rationale
- Foster a community of practice to promote identity best practices and knowledge sharing across engineering teams
- Security Engineering & Risk Management: Conduct threat modeling for the CIAM platform and application integrations, identifying risks and designing appropriate controls
- Define and maintain identity security standards, including authentication assurance levels, MFA requirements, and session policies
- Design and tune identity-related monitoring and detection capabilities, including integration with SIEM tools
- Lead security design reviews for identity workflows, integrations, and custom services to ensure adherence to best practices
- Support vulnerability management by assessing risks, prioritizing remediation, and driving resolution across the platform
Altice USA provides broadband internet, digital television, VoIP phone services, and mobile plans under the Optimum brand to about 4.6 million residential and business customers across 21 states. Its core offering is high-speed internet delivered over a 100% fiber-optic network aimed at faster, more reliable speeds, with options for bundled or standalone services. Revenue comes from monthly subscription fees from customers. The company differentiates itself by committing to a fully fiber-optic network to boost speed and reliability and by offering a wide range of services—internet, TV, phone, and mobile—under one brand. Its goal is to connect homes and businesses with dependable communications and to grow its fiber network and customer base.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
IPO
Headquarters
Bethpage, Tennessee
Founded
2015
Get referred to Altice USA
See people who can refer or advise you
Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Q1 2026 added 13,000 fiber customers, lifting total fiber customers to 729,000.
- Optimum plans 175,000 new passings in 2025 and 150,000-175,000 in 2026.
- Nexstar restored programming in January 2025, protecting Optimum TV subscriber retention after blackout damage.
What critics are saying
- July 2026 News 12 layoffs gutted Connecticut, Bronx, Brooklyn, and Westchester newsrooms.
- Altice financed Bronx and Brooklyn assets with a $1 billion loan in July 2025.
- Optimum keeps losing carriage leverage; repeat retrans fights with broadcasters threaten churn and margin erosion.
What makes Altice USA unique
- Optimum Fiber reached three million passings by July 2026, concentrated in the tri-state market.
- Lightpath is building AI-grade fiber in Columbus, Pennsylvania, and New York metro corridors.
- Adeia settlement in September 2025 cleared IP litigation and secured Optimum content-discovery rights.
Help us improve and share your feedback! Did you find this helpful?
Benefits
Health Insurance
Dental Insurance
Vision Insurance
Paid Vacation
Paid Sick Leave
401(k) Retirement Plan
401(k) Company Match
Performance Bonus
Tuition Reimbursement
Company News
Major cuts at News 12. July 16, 2026 Mark Sudol The New York Post and other outlets are reporting major cuts at News 12 in Connecticut, the Bronx, Brooklyn and Westchester. More than two dozen people have lost their jobs companywide; 11 were let go in Connecticut including long time anchors Mark Sudol and Becky Suran. Mark was also the dedicated moderator of the weekend interview program "Power and Politics." Becky Suran Insiders say Altice USA, the parent company of News 12, has decided to produce one regional newscast with short local cut-ins. Hyper-local newscasts will continue on Long Island and New Jersey, where the company says, the audience justifies the effort. Less than ten reporters and photographers will remain at News 12 Connecticut.
When the music stops, read the fine print. March 23, 2026 Something is shifting in the markets. Inflation expectations hit 5.2% last week in the US, the highest since March 2023. Three weeks ago the bond market was pricing in rate cuts. Now the probability of a Fed rate hike by year end (24.6%) is more than three times the probability of a cut (7.5%). Fed fund futures have pushed the next expected cut all the way out to October 2027. That shift is showing up in US credit. Only 26% of leveraged loans sit above par, down from roughly 65% earlier this year. Software names make up just 1% of that number. And Morningstar put out a statistic last week that deserves more attention: over the past 12 months, 16 of 17 US private credit rating downgrades to default or selective default were distressed exchanges. Not formal filings. Not orderly processes. Negotiated outcomes where the documentation determined who got paid and who didn't. That's the picture in America, but if you think Europe is insulated, think again. As I wrote in the Financial Times last week, the European market has seen a sharp rise in liability management exercises over the past two years: Altice France, Altice International, Ardagh, Victoria, Selecta, Hunkemöller. Borrowers are now going further than just using covenant flexibility. Altice USA filed a lawsuit against a group of major creditors including Apollo, Ares, and BlackRock, arguing that their cooperation agreement amounts to an illegal cartel. If that argument succeeds in a US court, expect European issuers to bring the same playbook across the Atlantic. If that doesn't work, there's always the coop blocker to fall back on - it's not cleared in Europe yet, but if history is anything to go by, borrowers and sponsors won't stop trying. This is the pattern on both sides of the pond. Borrowers restructure through liability management exercises, exchange offers, and consent solicitations. If something doesn't work, the finance team will draft around it in the next deal. Every one of those transactions turns on what the credit agreement actually says: subordination mechanics, basket capacity, intercreditor provisions. Meanwhile, AI continues to threaten disription. According to the restructuring newsletter Petition, a tweet went viral last week claiming AI can now draft legal contracts better than $800/hour lawyers. The restructuring community's reply went for the jugular: "ok now do the Kirkland & Ellis Superpriority Credit Agreement and Exit Consent to Existing First Lien Credit Agreement." Like all jokes there is a kernel of truth there - a template NDA and a live covenant negotiation in a distressed deal are different universes. And right now, credit professionals on both sides of the Atlantic are embroiled in the latter. AI cannot read these risks for you. Some liability management exercises are more marathon than sprint. Take The LYCRA Company - it filed Chapter 11 last week after seven years of serial restructuring transactions stacked on top of each other: acquisition debt, mezzanine enforcement, an IP drop-down, a failed sale, a change of control trust, and a plan with tiered penny warrants and distribution waterfalls. EBITDA down 67% in two years. Talk about kicking the can. The people who can read these documents are making the calls. Everyone else is relying on someone else's summary. On either side of the Atlantic, that's no longer a shortcut you can afford.
Adeia enters into long-term IP license agreement with Altice USA.
Altice USA to present at the bank of america Securities 2025 Media, Communications & Entertainment Conference.
Altice portugal is cutting about 1,000 jobs, or 16% of its workforce, as advances in artificial intelligence (AI) make some functions redundant, bloomberg reported this wednesday.