About the role
Responsibilities:
* 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.
Qualifications:
* 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. * Strong experience with: * 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 * Experience with Infrastructure as Code preferred
* Okta Certified Professional preferred * Knowledge of FastPass, Device Assurance preferred
* Directory services preferred
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.