Lead Engineer – Security & Identity (Flexible, Impactful IAM)

Versent; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexibility around when you work

Craft 180 Program / continuous skill提升

Salary packaging & novated leasing

Health & wellbeing programmes

Regular team social activities

Recognition programmes

Diverse projects and career growth

Job summary

Versent is seeking a Lead Engineer – Security & Identity to design, build and deliver secure, scalable IAM solutions. You will lead from the front, guiding architecture, delivery and mentoring engineers in modern identity and security practices.

Role focuses on Auth0-based IAM, authentication/authorization, federation, and cloud integrations across AWS/Azure with a strong DevOps and automation mindset.

Qualifications

• Experience designing and delivering IAM solutions with Auth0, SAML/OIDC/OAuth.
• Proven ability to lead enterprise IAM design across cloud environments.
• Strong knowledge of authentication, authorization and federation technologies.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and implementation of enterprise Identity & Access Management solutions.
• Provide technical leadership across customer engagements and architecture reviews.
• Build secure, scalable, cloud-native identity platforms and integrations.
• Mentor engineers through code reviews, guidance, and best practices.
• Translate business requirements into technical IAM solutions and roadmaps.
• Drive automation, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code in delivery.
• Lead Agile ceremonies and own delivery outcomes from inception to production.
• Advise customers on security posture and identity maturity.

Skills

Auth0 platform design & delivery

IAM concepts

Authentication & Authorization

Federation technologies

Workforce & customer identity

SAML

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect (OIDC)

SCIM

FIDO2 / Passkeys

DevOps mindset

CI/CD pipelines

Infrastructure as Code

Tools

Ping Identity

Okta

SailPoint

CyberArk

Broadcom/CA Identity

One Identity

AWS

Azure

CI/CD tooling

Infrastructure as Code tools

Job description

Versent is seeking a Lead Engineer – Security & Identity to design, build and deliver secure, scalable IAM solutions. You will lead from the front, guiding architecture, delivery and mentoring engineers in modern identity and security practices.

Role focuses on Auth0-based IAM, authentication/authorization, federation, and cloud integrations across AWS/Azure with a strong DevOps and automation mindset.