Senior CIAM & Identity Security Engineer (Java/APIs)

Air New Zealand; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Air New Zealand is seeking a Senior Customer Identity Engineer to join the Cyber & Identity team to build, operate and evolve the services that support customer identity, authentication and digital identity. This is a hands-on engineering role working across application code, APIs and supporting platforms to deliver secure, reliable and simple identity experiences for customers.

The role requires 3+ years in software/identity engineering, strong Java and experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID

Qualifications

• 3+ years of software/platform/identity engineering experience.
• Strong Java development skills.
• Experience with REST APIs and backend services.
• Experience with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.
• CI/CD, automated testing and source control.
• Containerised applications and cloud platforms.
• Production support, troubleshooting and root‑cause analysis.
• Secure software development and API security.
• Monitoring and observability.

Responsibilities

• Develop, maintain and support customer identity and authentication services.
• Build and maintain Java-based applications, APIs and backend services.
• Support customer journeys including registration, login, account management and authentication.
• Implement secure authentication and authorisation using OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect.
• Build and support integrations between identity services and other Air New Zealand platforms.
• Manage source code, testing, builds and deployments using CI/CD and DevOps practices.
• Support production services, investigate incidents and resolve root causes.
• Contribute to security controls including MFA, session management, certificates and secrets.
• Work with other squads to provide secure and reusable identity patterns.
• Contribute to emerging digital identity and biometric capabilities.
• Participate in a 24/7 rostered on‑call rotation.

Skills

Java development

REST APIs

PostgreSQL

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

CI/CD

Containerised applications

Monitoring

Security

Identity security

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms

Job description

Air New Zealand is seeking a Senior Customer Identity Engineer to join the Cyber & Identity team to build, operate and evolve the services that support customer identity, authentication and digital identity. This is a hands-on engineering role working across application code, APIs and supporting platforms to deliver secure, reliable and simple identity experiences for customers.

The role requires 3+ years in software/identity engineering, strong Java and experience with OAuth 2.0, OpenID