Job Overview

The Cyber Manager – Identity & Access Management is a leader and architecture owner responsible for advancing Sentara Health’s enterprise identity strategy across non-human identities, identity proofing, and privileged access management. This role partners with Identity Governance and Administration leaders to build a unified identity ecosystem that supports clinical, corporate, partner, and consumer populations.
The role also owns the Digital Front Door identity experience, ensuring patients and consumers have a secure, consistent, and seamless login journey across the Sentara ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

Enterprise IAM: Workforce and Partners
• Oversee single sign-on, multifactor authentication, and privileged access management capabilities to enforce Zero Trust and least-privilege principles.
• Ensure identity services are integrated seamlessly across the internal application landscape.
Identity Platform and Engineering
• Direct the development and modernization of the core identity technology stack, including APIs, microservices, and identity data platforms.
• Ensure the reliability, performance, and scalability of identity products and platforms, including Saviynt, Ping, 1Kosmos, Experian ,CyberArk, BeyondTrust, and related tools.
• Standardize identity patterns across the organization to enable secure developer self-service and consistent implementation practices.
• Security Operations integration: Partner with the Cyber Threat Operations Center to monitor and respond to identity-based threats, credential stuffing, and account takeover activity.
Non-Human Identity and Machine Governance
• Machine identity inventory: Establish a comprehensive inventory and ownership model for non-human identities, including service accounts, API keys, RPA bots, secrets, and other machine identities.
• Secrets management: Direct the lifecycle for credential discovery, vaulting, and automated rotation across applications and automated workflows to reduce static or unmanaged credentials.
• IoMT security: Extend IAM principles to the Internet of Medical Things by ensuring medical devices, such as infusion pumps and monitors, authenticate with unique machine identities before accessing clinical networks.
• Workload identities: Oversee Entra Workload ID or similar capabilities to secure machine-to-machine communications across cloud-native and legacy hospital systems.

Education

  • Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, information security, or a related field. (Preferred)

Certification/Licensure

  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), or equivalent certifications (Preferred)

Experience

  • Extensive experience in technology and cybersecurity, including at least 15 years of relevant experience and 5 or more years in a senior leadership role; healthcare integrated delivery network or health plan experience preferred.

  • Proven leadership experience managing teams and driving cross-functional collaboration.

  • Strong understanding of regulatory requirements, industry standards, and cybersecurity best practices.

  • Deep understanding of identity protocols (SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, FIDO2) and experience managing both cloud-native and hybrid identity environments.

  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex security concepts to technical and non-technical audiences.

  • Strategic thinker with the ability to translate business needs into effective security solutions.

  • Demonstrated ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and adapt to evolving threats and challenges.

  • Strong leadership and management skills, with the ability to build, lead, and develop high-performing security teams.

  • Excellent interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

  • Proven track record of driving security initiatives and achieving measurable results.

  • Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment with urgency, attention to detail, and adaptability.

  • Experience with Agile, LEAN, or Six Sigma practices preferred.

We provide market-competitive compensation packages, inclusive of base pay, incentives, and benefits. The base pay rate for Full Time employment is:$116,729.60-$216,777.60. Additional compensation may be available for this role such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities.

Sentara Health, an integrated, not-for-profit health care delivery system, celebrates more than 135 years in pursuit of its mission – “we improve health every day.” Sentara is one of the largest health systems in the U.S. Mid-Atlantic and Southeast, and among the top 20 largest not-for-profit integrated health systems in the country, with 34,000 employees, 12 hospitals in Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina including 10 hospitals with the prestigious Magnet® recognition, and the Sentara Health Plans division which serves more than 1 million members in Virginia and Florida. Sentara is recognized nationally for clinical quality and safety, and is strategically focused on innovation and creating an extraordinary health care experience for our patients and members. Sentara was named a Health Quality Innovator of the Year (2024), was recognized by Forbes as “America’s Best-In-State Employer” (2024), “Best Employer for Veterans” (2022, 2023), and “Best Employer for Women” (2020), and named to IBM Watson Health’s “Top 15 Health Systems” (2021, 2018).

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Our Culture

At Sentara, our differences are our strengths. The unique backgrounds, skills, and experiences that each Sentara colleague brings to work make Sentara special and allow us to deliver excellent service and care to our patients, members, and communities.

Our Benefits

We are committed to consistently enhancing our training, advancement tracks, work-life benefits, and more. Our goal is to make you feel more excited to be here every day!

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Two female doctors in lab coats smiling and chatting in a hospital hallway.
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The Sentara Nursing Experience

Making a meaningful impact on health requires compassion, dedication, continuous learning, teamwork and collaboration. At Sentara, we also recognize that in valuing the professional and personal well-being of our nurses, we build a stronger, more supportive workplace for our nurses. And that’s making us healthier from the inside out. These principles unite our nurses across various roles and locations.

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The Sentara Clinical Experience

No matter where you choose to join us, in an inpatient or outpatient setting, you will be part of an interdisciplinary Clinical team passionate about quality care and patient safety. You will have access to the tools and technologies you need to succeed and the chance to learn and grow through training and educational programs so you can advance your career as a Clinical professional.

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The Sentara Support Services Experience

Each day, the Sentara Support Services team helps improve healthcare at more than 300 Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina sites. We perform various patient care activities, provide multiple services, and handle administrative functions that support our patients and their families. These vital functions include assisting the medical team in all aspects of medical care, such as treatments, procedures, and diagnostic and laboratory testing.

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The Medical Group Experience

As part of Sentara Health, Sentara Medical Group providers have diverse opportunities across regions and inpatient and outpatient locations. For those providers based in one of 12 hospitals, we have close working relationships with the administration, ensuring a collegial and collaborative environment where all can come together around shared initiatives.

Guided by a dedicated board of providers, Sentara Medical Group not only offers leadership opportunities for its providers but also underscores the group’s crucial role in fulfilling Sentara’s overarching mission to meet the needs of our diverse patient populations, some of our most vulnerable communities. Our physicians and APPs enjoy opportunities for both personal and professional career growth through a network of resources aimed to cultivate an environment suitable for a lifelong career home.

Your Perspective Matters

Nurses are the heartbeat of our exceptional team. Our approach empowers nurses to actively participate in decision-making. Our nurses have a stake in shaping their workplace as well as their own career growth; one of the benefits of our focus on supporting and valuing team members. This framework encompasses our nursing mission, vision, values, philosophy, and the essential elements of our Professional Practice Model.

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We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Sentara Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to the hiring, advancement, and fair treatment of every individual. Sentara and its affiliates do not discriminate against any individual or group of individuals on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, marital status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, medical condition, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics.

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We Are an Equal Opportunity Employer

Sentara Health is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to the hiring, advancement, and fair treatment of every individual. Sentara and its affiliates do not discriminate against any individual or group of individuals on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, marital status, age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, physical or mental disability, pregnancy, medical condition, veteran status or any other legally protected characteristics.

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