Password Robustness Expert

What You’ll Bring

You do not need to match every requirement to apply. We are interested in your experience, your ability to learn, and the perspective you can bring to the team.

• Significant experience in IT, ideally gained within a large, international, or complex organization.
• Experience in information security, cybersecurity operations, security products, or a closely related field.
• Strong understanding of password security, authentication protocols, encryption techniques, password policies, and cybersecurity best practices.
• Experience supporting technical products or services through operational delivery, change, incident management, or project work.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and coordinate their resolution across multiple teams.
• Confidence managing multiple workstreams and priorities in a global environment.
• Strong analytical, planning, documentation, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to build trusted relationships with technical teams, vendors, security professionals, and senior stakeholders.
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to present technical concepts to different audiences.
• Professional fluency in English. French would be an advantage.
• A collaborative mindset, sound judgement, curiosity, and a willingness to take ownership.

What Will Make You Stand Out

• Practical knowledge of password auditing, password recovery, or enforcement technologies such as Hashcat, John the Ripper, Detack EPAS, or Detack Enforcer.
• Experience across environments such as Unix, Linux, Windows, Active Directory, Oracle, SQL Server, AS400, and PowerShell.
• PowerShell scripting, programming, automation, or software development lifecycle experience.
• Previous involvement in security audits, risk remediation, control assessment, or policy implementation.
• Experience working with product roadmaps, vendors, or technical account managers.
• Familiarity with Agile or Scrum ways of working.
• Knowledge of responsible AI use within technical or security environments.

What We Offer

• Meaningful global impact: Help protect critical systems and services used across an organization serving 105 million customers.
• International collaboration: Work with highly qualified teams across countries, cultures, technologies, and business environments.
• Technical ownership: Influence product decisions, service improvements, automation priorities, and future capabilities.
• Career development: Expand your expertise across cybersecurity operations, product management, stakeholder engagement, automation, risk, and governance.
• A strong professional community: Learn from and contribute to AXA’s global network of security and technology specialists.
• Room to grow: Seek new opportunities, push boundaries, and develop your potential within a major international organization.
• An inclusive culture: Join a workplace built around respect, collaboration, creativity, and the value of individual perspectives.

Help protect the systems used by one of the world’s leading insurance groups while advancing your career in a global cybersecurity community.

Three reasons to join:

• Deliver security at global scale: Strengthen password protection across AXA’s infrastructure and applications, helping safeguard customers, operations, people, and data.
• Own and evolve a strategic cybersecurity product: Influence the roadmap, automate processes, improve controls, and support the adoption of new technologies.
• Work in a truly international environment: Collaborate with security specialists, technology teams, vendors, and business stakeholders across France, Spain, Morocco, India, and AXA entities worldwide.

At AXA Group Operations, technology and innovation are central to AXA’s transformation into a sustainable, tech-led company. You will join an environment where technical expertise is valued, ideas can shape global solutions, and continuous learning is part of the role.

About the Role

As a Password Robustness Expert, you will help operate and develop AXA’s Password Robustness Product, a global security capability designed to identify weak passwords, enable secure remediation, and prevent weak passwords from being created on targeted systems and devices.

You will play a key role throughout the product lifecycle, combining hands-on technical expertise, service delivery, product improvement, and stakeholder collaboration. Working within AXA Group Security, you will help security teams use automated scanning, reporting, and enforcement capabilities effectively and securely.

This is an opportunity to make a visible contribution to AXA’s security posture while working with a global community of approximately 1,000 security professionals.

• Drive the daily delivery and continued evolution of the Password Robustness Product across AXA.
• Improve protection at scale by supporting password scanning, secure reporting, remediation, and enforcement across diverse technology environments.
• Shape the product roadmap by translating security priorities, business needs, user feedback, and upcoming vendor releases into clear actions.
• Enhance and automate processes to improve service quality, efficiency, consistency, and internal controls.
• Coordinate incidents, changes, requests, and escalations, helping teams resolve issues and maintain agreed service levels.
• Support product expansion by onboarding new technologies, systems and AXA entities.
• Partner with global stakeholders, including cybersecurity teams, technical specialists, business representatives, and external vendors.
• Turn complex requirements into practical solutions, including technical designs, delivery plans, impact assessments, and cost estimates.
• Contribute to audit and risk remediation, ensuring that product controls and security policies remain consistent and effective.
• Create clear, useful product content, including technical documentation, user guides, procedures, communications, and release information.
• Communicate with impact, making technical topics understandable to both specialist and non-technical audiences.
• Share your expertise and contribute to a collaborative culture of learning, problem-solving, and continuous improvement.