Senior Identity Engineer — Customer IAM & Secure Auth

Air New Zealand Limited; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

On-call rotation

Salary & benefits package

Job summary

Air New Zealand Limited is looking for a Senior Customer Identity Engineer to join the Cyber & Identity team. You will build, operate and evolve identity services, authentication and digital identity across customer journeys.

This hands-on role cuts across application code, APIs, and supporting platforms, delivering secure, reliable, and simple identity experiences for customers, with on-call rotation and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Strong Java development and REST API design
• Experience with PostgreSQL or similar relational databases
• Familiarity with OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect
• Knowledge of SSO and identity standards
• CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
• Containerised applications and cloud platforms
• Production support, troubleshooting and root-cause analysis
• Security-focused software development and API security
• Monitoring and observability best practices

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

OAuth 2.0

OpenID Connect

SSO

CI/CD

Automated testing

Source control

Containerization

Cloud platforms

Production support

Security

Monitoring

Tools

PostgreSQL

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Air New Zealand Limited is looking for a Senior Customer Identity Engineer to join the Cyber & Identity team. You will build, operate and evolve identity services, authentication and digital identity across customer journeys.

This hands-on role cuts across application code, APIs, and supporting platforms, delivering secure, reliable, and simple identity experiences for customers, with on-call rotation and cross-team collaboration.