diff --git a/src/_nebari/stages/kubernetes_services/template/modules/kubernetes/services/jupyterhub/files/jupyterhub/04-auth.py b/src/_nebari/stages/kubernetes_services/template/modules/kubernetes/services/jupyterhub/files/jupyterhub/04-auth.py
index 082268a107..bc6fb6a721 100644
--- a/src/_nebari/stages/kubernetes_services/template/modules/kubernetes/services/jupyterhub/files/jupyterhub/04-auth.py
+++ b/src/_nebari/stages/kubernetes_services/template/modules/kubernetes/services/jupyterhub/files/jupyterhub/04-auth.py
@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
 import json
 import os
+import time
 import urllib
 from functools import reduce
 
+from jupyterhub import scopes
 from jupyterhub.traitlets import Callable
 from oauthenticator.generic import GenericOAuthenticator
 from traitlets import Bool, Unicode, Union
@@ -28,24 +30,72 @@ class KeyCloakOAuthenticator(GenericOAuthenticator):
     reset_managed_roles_on_startup = Bool(True)
 
     async def update_auth_model(self, auth_model):
+        """Updates and returns the auth_model dict.
+        This function is called every time a user authenticates with JupyterHub, as in
+        every time a user login to Nebari.
+
+        It will fetch the roles and their corresponding scopes from keycloak
+        and return updated auth model which will updates roles/scopes for the
+        user. When a user's roles/scopes are updated, they take in-affect only
+        after they log in to Nebari.
+        """
+        start = time.time()
+        self.log.info("Updating user auth model")
         auth_model = await super().update_auth_model(auth_model)
+        user_id = auth_model["auth_state"]["oauth_user"]["sub"]
+        token = await self._get_token()
+
+        jupyterhub_client_id = await self._get_jupyterhub_client_id(token=token)
         user_info = auth_model["auth_state"][self.user_auth_state_key]
-        user_roles = self._get_user_roles(user_info)
-        auth_model["roles"] = [{"name": role_name} for role_name in user_roles]
+        user_roles_from_claims = self._get_user_roles(user_info=user_info)
+        keycloak_api_call_start = time.time()
+        user_roles = await self._get_client_roles_for_user(
+            user_id=user_id, client_id=jupyterhub_client_id, token=token
+        )
+        user_roles_rich = await self._get_roles_with_attributes(
+            roles=user_roles, client_id=jupyterhub_client_id, token=token
+        )
+        keycloak_api_call_time_taken = time.time() - keycloak_api_call_start
+        user_roles_rich_names = {role["name"] for role in user_roles_rich}
+        user_roles_non_jhub_client = [
+            {"name": role}
+            for role in user_roles_from_claims
+            if role in (user_roles_from_claims - user_roles_rich_names)
+        ]
+        auth_model["roles"] = [
+            {
+                "name": role["name"],
+                "description": role.get("description"),
+                "scopes": self._get_scope_from_role(role),
+            }
+            for role in [*user_roles_rich, *user_roles_non_jhub_client]
+        ]
         # note: because the roles check is comprehensive, we need to re-add the admin and user roles
         if auth_model["admin"]:
             auth_model["roles"].append({"name": "admin"})
-        if self.check_allowed(auth_model["name"], auth_model):
+        if await self.check_allowed(auth_model["name"], auth_model):
             auth_model["roles"].append({"name": "user"})
+        execution_time = time.time() - start
+        self.log.info(
+            f"Auth model update complete, time taken: {execution_time}s "
+            f"time taken for keycloak api call: {keycloak_api_call_time_taken}s "
+            f"delta between full execution and keycloak call: {execution_time - keycloak_api_call_time_taken}s"
+        )
         return auth_model
 
-    async def load_managed_roles(self):
-        if not self.manage_roles:
-            raise ValueError(
-                "Managed roles can only be loaded when `manage_roles` is True"
-            )
-        token = await self._get_token()
+    async def _get_jupyterhub_client_roles(self, jupyterhub_client_id, token):
+        """Get roles for the client named 'jupyterhub'."""
+        # Includes roles like "jupyterhub_admin", "jupyterhub_developer", "dask_gateway_developer"
+
+        client_roles = await self._fetch_api(
+            endpoint=f"clients/{jupyterhub_client_id}/roles", token=token
+        )
+        client_roles_rich = await self._get_roles_with_attributes(
+            client_roles, client_id=jupyterhub_client_id, token=token
+        )
+        return client_roles_rich
 
+    async def _get_jupyterhub_client_id(self, token):
         # Get the clients list to find the "id" of "jupyterhub" client.
         clients_data = await self._fetch_api(endpoint="clients/", token=token)
         jupyterhub_clients = [
@@ -53,16 +103,28 @@ async def load_managed_roles(self):
         ]
         assert len(jupyterhub_clients) == 1
         jupyterhub_client_id = jupyterhub_clients[0]["id"]
+        return jupyterhub_client_id
 
-        # Includes roles like "jupyterhub_admin", "jupyterhub_developer", "dask_gateway_developer"
-        client_roles = await self._fetch_api(
-            endpoint=f"clients/{jupyterhub_client_id}/roles", token=token
+    async def load_managed_roles(self):
+        self.log.info("Loading managed roles")
+        if not self.manage_roles:
+            raise ValueError(
+                "Managed roles can only be loaded when `manage_roles` is True"
+            )
+        token = await self._get_token()
+        jupyterhub_client_id = await self._get_jupyterhub_client_id(token=token)
+        client_roles_rich = await self._get_jupyterhub_client_roles(
+            jupyterhub_client_id=jupyterhub_client_id, token=token
         )
         # Includes roles like "default-roles-nebari", "offline_access", "uma_authorization"
         realm_roles = await self._fetch_api(endpoint="roles", token=token)
         roles = {
-            role["name"]: {"name": role["name"], "description": role["description"]}
-            for role in [*realm_roles, *client_roles]
+            role["name"]: {
+                "name": role["name"],
+                "description": role["description"],
+                "scopes": self._get_scope_from_role(role),
+            }
+            for role in [*realm_roles, *client_roles_rich]
         }
         # we could use either `name` (e.g. "developer") or `path` ("/developer");
         # since the default claim key returns `path`, it seems preferable.
@@ -76,7 +138,7 @@ async def load_managed_roles(self):
             # fetch role assignments to users
             users = await self._fetch_api(f"roles/{role_name}/users", token=token)
             role["users"] = [user["username"] for user in users]
-        for client_role in client_roles:
+        for client_role in client_roles_rich:
             role_name = client_role["name"]
             role = roles[role_name]
             # fetch role assignments to groups
@@ -92,6 +154,49 @@ async def load_managed_roles(self):
 
         return list(roles.values())
 
+    def _get_scope_from_role(self, role):
+        """Return scopes from role if the component is jupyterhub"""
+        role_scopes = role.get("attributes", {}).get("scopes", [])
+        component = role.get("attributes", {}).get("component")
+        # Attributes are returned as a single-element array, unless `##` delimiter is used in Keycloak
+        # See this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/68954733/keycloak-client-role-attribute-array
+        if component == ["jupyterhub"] and role_scopes:
+            return self.validate_scopes(role_scopes[0].split(","))
+        else:
+            return []
+
+    def validate_scopes(self, role_scopes):
+        """Validate role scopes to sanity check user provided scopes from keycloak"""
+        self.log.info(f"Validating role scopes: {role_scopes}")
+        try:
+            # This is not a public function, but there isn't any alternative
+            # method to verify scopes, and we do need to do this sanity check
+            # as a invalid scopes could cause hub pod to fail
+            scopes._check_scopes_exist(role_scopes)
+            return role_scopes
+        except scopes.ScopeNotFound as e:
+            self.log.error(f"Invalid scopes, skipping: {role_scopes} ({e})")
+        return []
+
+    async def _get_roles_with_attributes(self, roles: dict, client_id: str, token: str):
+        """This fetches all roles by id to fetch there attributes."""
+        roles_rich = []
+        for role in roles:
+            # If this takes too much time, which isn't the case right now, we can
+            # also do multi-threaded requests
+            role_rich = await self._fetch_api(
+                endpoint=f"roles-by-id/{role['id']}?client={client_id}", token=token
+            )
+            roles_rich.append(role_rich)
+        return roles_rich
+
+    async def _get_client_roles_for_user(self, user_id, client_id, token):
+        user_roles = await self._fetch_api(
+            endpoint=f"users/{user_id}/role-mappings/clients/{client_id}/composite",
+            token=token,
+        )
+        return user_roles
+
     def _get_user_roles(self, user_info):
         if callable(self.claim_roles_key):
             return set(self.claim_roles_key(user_info))
diff --git a/tests/tests_deployment/conftest.py b/tests/tests_deployment/conftest.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..fa71302823
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tests_deployment/conftest.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import pytest
+
+from tests.tests_deployment.keycloak_utils import delete_client_keycloak_test_roles
+
+
+@pytest.fixture()
+def cleanup_keycloak_roles():
+    # setup
+    yield
+    # teardown
+    delete_client_keycloak_test_roles(client_name="jupyterhub")
diff --git a/tests/tests_deployment/keycloak_utils.py b/tests/tests_deployment/keycloak_utils.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6e6f6c21e6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/tests_deployment/keycloak_utils.py
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+import os
+import pathlib
+
+from _nebari.config import read_configuration
+from _nebari.keycloak import get_keycloak_admin_from_config
+from nebari.plugins import nebari_plugin_manager
+
+
+def get_keycloak_client_details_by_name(client_name, keycloak_admin=None):
+    if not keycloak_admin:
+        keycloak_admin = get_keycloak_admin()
+    clients = keycloak_admin.get_clients()
+    for client in clients:
+        if client["clientId"] == client_name:
+            return client
+
+
+def get_keycloak_user_details_by_name(username, keycloak_admin=None):
+    if not keycloak_admin:
+        keycloak_admin = get_keycloak_admin()
+    users = keycloak_admin.get_users()
+    for user in users:
+        if user["username"] == username:
+            return user
+
+
+def get_keycloak_role_details_by_name(roles, role_name):
+    for role in roles:
+        if role["name"] == role_name:
+            return role
+
+
+def get_keycloak_admin():
+    config_schema = nebari_plugin_manager.config_schema
+    config_filepath = os.environ.get("NEBARI_CONFIG_PATH", "nebari-config.yaml")
+    assert pathlib.Path(config_filepath).exists()
+    config = read_configuration(config_filepath, config_schema)
+    return get_keycloak_admin_from_config(config)
+
+
+def create_keycloak_client_role(
+    client_id: str, role_name: str, scopes: str, component: str
+):
+    keycloak_admin = get_keycloak_admin()
+    keycloak_admin.create_client_role(
+        client_id,
+        payload={
+            "name": role_name,
+            "description": f"{role_name} description",
+            "attributes": {"scopes": [scopes], "component": [component]},
+        },
+    )
+    client_roles = keycloak_admin.get_client_roles(client_id=client_id)
+    return get_keycloak_role_details_by_name(client_roles, role_name)
+
+
+def assign_keycloak_client_role_to_user(username: str, client_name: str, role: dict):
+    """Given a keycloak role and client name, assign that to the user"""
+    keycloak_admin = get_keycloak_admin()
+    user_details = get_keycloak_user_details_by_name(
+        username=username, keycloak_admin=keycloak_admin
+    )
+    client_details = get_keycloak_client_details_by_name(
+        client_name=client_name, keycloak_admin=keycloak_admin
+    )
+    keycloak_admin.assign_client_role(
+        user_id=user_details["id"], client_id=client_details["id"], roles=[role]
+    )
+
+
+def create_keycloak_role(client_name: str, role_name: str, scopes: str, component: str):
+    """Create a role keycloak role for the given client with scopes and
+    component set in attributes
+    """
+    keycloak_admin = get_keycloak_admin()
+    client_details = get_keycloak_client_details_by_name(
+        client_name=client_name, keycloak_admin=keycloak_admin
+    )
+    return create_keycloak_client_role(
+        client_details["id"], role_name=role_name, scopes=scopes, component=component
+    )
+
+
+def delete_client_keycloak_test_roles(client_name):
+    keycloak_admin = get_keycloak_admin()
+    client_details = get_keycloak_client_details_by_name(
+        client_name=client_name, keycloak_admin=keycloak_admin
+    )
+    client_roles = keycloak_admin.get_client_roles(client_id=client_details["id"])
+    for role in client_roles:
+        if not role["name"].startswith("test"):
+            continue
+        keycloak_admin.delete_client_role(
+            client_role_id=client_details["id"],
+            role_name=role["name"],
+        )
diff --git a/tests/tests_deployment/test_jupyterhub_api.py b/tests/tests_deployment/test_jupyterhub_api.py
index faa6e82f53..5f02c72dd4 100644
--- a/tests/tests_deployment/test_jupyterhub_api.py
+++ b/tests/tests_deployment/test_jupyterhub_api.py
@@ -1,7 +1,11 @@
 import pytest
 
 from tests.tests_deployment import constants
-from tests.tests_deployment.utils import get_jupyterhub_session
+from tests.tests_deployment.keycloak_utils import (
+    assign_keycloak_client_role_to_user,
+    create_keycloak_role,
+)
+from tests.tests_deployment.utils import create_jupyterhub_token, get_jupyterhub_session
 
 
 @pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore::urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning")
@@ -30,6 +34,54 @@ def test_jupyterhub_loads_roles_from_keycloak():
     }
 
 
+@pytest.mark.parametrize(
+    "component,scopes,expected_scopes_difference",
+    (
+        [
+            "jupyterhub",
+            "read:users:shares,read:groups:shares,users:shares",
+            {"read:groups:shares", "users:shares", "read:users:shares"},
+        ],
+        ["invalid-component", "read:users:shares,read:groups:shares,users:shares", {}],
+        ["invalid-component", "admin:invalid-scope", {}],
+    ),
+)
+@pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore::urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning")
+@pytest.mark.filterwarnings(
+    "ignore:.*auto_refresh_token is deprecated:DeprecationWarning"
+)
+def test_keycloak_roles_attributes_parsed_as_jhub_scopes(
+    component, scopes, expected_scopes_difference, cleanup_keycloak_roles
+):
+    # check token scopes before role creation and assignment
+    token_response_before = create_jupyterhub_token(
+        note="before-role-creation-and-assignment"
+    )
+    token_scopes_before = set(token_response_before.json()["scopes"])
+    # create keycloak role with jupyterhub scopes in attributes
+    role = create_keycloak_role(
+        client_name="jupyterhub",
+        # Note: we're clearing this role after every test case, and we're clearing
+        # it by name, so it must start with test- to be deleted afterward
+        role_name="test-custom-role",
+        scopes=scopes,
+        component=component,
+    )
+    assert role
+    # assign created role to the user
+    assign_keycloak_client_role_to_user(
+        constants.KEYCLOAK_USERNAME, client_name="jupyterhub", role=role
+    )
+    token_response_after = create_jupyterhub_token(
+        note="after-role-creation-and-assignment"
+    )
+    token_scopes_after = set(token_response_after.json()["scopes"])
+    # verify new scopes added/removed
+    expected_scopes_difference = token_scopes_after - token_scopes_before
+    # Comparing token scopes for the user before and after role assignment
+    assert expected_scopes_difference == expected_scopes_difference
+
+
 @pytest.mark.filterwarnings("ignore::urllib3.exceptions.InsecureRequestWarning")
 def test_jupyterhub_loads_groups_from_keycloak():
     session = get_jupyterhub_session()
diff --git a/tests/tests_deployment/utils.py b/tests/tests_deployment/utils.py
index f37523d920..b0965dd1ae 100644
--- a/tests/tests_deployment/utils.py
+++ b/tests/tests_deployment/utils.py
@@ -26,21 +26,24 @@ def get_jupyterhub_session():
     return session
 
 
-def get_jupyterhub_token(note="jupyterhub-tests-deployment"):
+def create_jupyterhub_token(note):
     session = get_jupyterhub_session()
     xsrf_token = session.cookies.get("_xsrf")
     headers = {"Referer": f"https://{constants.NEBARI_HOSTNAME}/hub/token"}
     if xsrf_token:
         headers["X-XSRFToken"] = xsrf_token
     data = {"note": note, "expires_in": None}
-    r = session.post(
+    return session.post(
         f"https://{constants.NEBARI_HOSTNAME}/hub/api/users/{constants.KEYCLOAK_USERNAME}/tokens",
         headers=headers,
         json=data,
         verify=False,
     )
 
-    return r.json()["token"]
+
+def get_jupyterhub_token(note="jupyterhub-tests-deployment"):
+    response = create_jupyterhub_token(note=note)
+    return response.json()["token"]
 
 
 def monkeypatch_ssl_context():