Responsibilities:
- Design and implement enterprise identity solutions leveraging Okta Workforce Identity Cloud.
- Lead application onboarding using SAML, OIDC/OAuth, SCIM provisioning, federation, and lifecycle management.
- Define authentication, MFA, and access management patterns that improve 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 Okta 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.
- Drive 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.
- Own 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.
- Evaluate and adopt new capabilities that strengthen security, reliability, and efficiency.
- Serve as a technical leader and trusted advisor for enterprise identity and modern authentication services.
- 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.
- Provides expert-level IT technical leadership that accelerates application onboarding through automation and engineering excellence.
- Improves platform reliability, resiliency, and security posture.
- Drives adoption of modern identity capabilities and best practices.
- Develop team capability through mentoring and technical leadership.
- Reduces operational risk while improving audit readiness and service quality.
Qualifications:
- 10+ 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 Okta Workforce Identity Cloud, AWS.
- Preferred At least 2 current Okta certifications (e.g., Okta Certified Professional, Administrator, Consultant, Developer)
- Expert level experience with:
- SAML 2.0, OIDC/OAuth 2.0, SCIM
- Okta APIs, MFA, Sign-On Policies/Patterns
- Identity lifecycle management and federation design
- CI/CD pipelines, GitHub-based development, delivery, and Python or similar scripting languages
- Splunk/syslog analysis, ability to troubleshoot complex authentication issues
- AWS services including Lambda and Secrets Manager
- Incident management, root cause analysis, and production support
- Technical leadership and strategic thinking
- Mentoring and talent development
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Executive and stakeholder communication
- Driving outcomes through ambiguity
- Incident leadership and operational excellence
- Continuous improvement and production change leadership
- Preferred experience with Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code e.g. Terraform
- Preferred experience with FastPass & Device Assurance
- Preferred experience with Directory services
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
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.