Vanguard
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Design and implement enterprise identity solutions leveraging Okta Workforce Identity Cloud services.
Lead application onboarding using SAML, OIDC/OAuth, SCIM provisioning, federation, and lifecycle management.
Thoroughly understands and ensures authentication, MFA, and access management patterns are followed. Maintains improved security and user experience.
Partner with cloud and platform engineering teams to integrate identity controls across enterprise platforms and cloud environments.
Develop automation solutions using APIs, scripting, workflows, and CI/CD pipelines to improve scalability and reduce manual effort.
Automate operational processes, platform governance controls, application onboarding activities, and compliance reporting.
Identifies opportunities for platform engineering best practices including GitHub-based CI/CD deployment models, testing strategies, release management, and configuration standardization.
Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and capabilities to improve scalability, reliability, security, and operational effectiveness.
Thoroughly understand platform resiliency initiatives include disaster recovery planning, service continuity testing, monitoring, observability, and operational readiness reviews.
Participate in production support and critical incident response while driving permanent engineering solutions that eliminate recurring operational issues.
Lead root cause analysis activities and implement preventative controls to improve platform stability.
Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards that provide visibility into platform health and key performance indicators.
Support audit readiness through controls, governance practices, documentation, and evidence management.
Manage production changes, platform upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and operational support.
Identify opportunities to adopt new capabilities that strengthen security, reliability, and efficiency.
Lead complex initiatives across cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams.
Influence architecture decisions, engineering standards, and platform roadmaps through strong technical expertise and stakeholder engagement.
Mentor engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and strengthen team capability through coaching and technical guidance.
Drive measurable improvements in automation, onboarding velocity, platform resiliency, audit readiness, and operational effectiveness.
5+ years of broad experience working on large-scale systems or services, Cloud Security Engineering, Identity Platform Engineering, Identity and Access Management or related disciplines.
Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Extensive hands-on experience with AWS.
AWS services including Lambda and Secrets Manager
SAML 2.0, OIDC/OAuth 2.0, SCIM
APIs, Application Sign-On Policies/Patterns
CI/CD pipelines, GitHub-based delivery, and scripting
Identity lifecycle management and federation design
Splunk/syslog analysis, ability to troubleshoot complex authentication issues
Incident management, root cause analysis, and production support
Technical leadership and strategic thinking
Cross-functional collaboration
Executive and stakeholder communication
Driving outcomes through ambiguity
Incident leadership and operational excellence
Continuous improvement and production change leadership
Okta Certified Professional preferred
Knowledge of FastPass, Device Assurance preferred
Directory services preferred
Special Factors
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.
To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.
How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.
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