IT Engineer (Okta)

AIRWALLEX (SINGAPORE) PTE. LTD.; Singapore; On-site; SGD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Singapore seeks an IT Engineer to enhance identity and authentication systems across their global platform. The ideal candidate will manage and optimize Okta integration, automate user lifecycles, and implement robust access control policies. Strong expertise in cloud infrastructure and identity standards is essential. This role offers a collaborative environment with opportunities for growth in a fast-paced setting.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of relevant experience in a similar role.
• Expert level understanding of common identity standards, including SAML and OAuth.
• Experience using and understanding of SaaS-based systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain identity and authentication systems.
• Manage and improve auth policies and access controls.
• Automate and orchestrate user lifecycles across systems and services.

Skills

Okta expertise

Identity management

Scripting/automation tools

Cloud infrastructure understanding

Strong communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Technology or related field

Tools

Terraform

AWS

Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

Job description

About Airwallex

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by our unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 150,000 businesses worldwide – including Brex, Rippling, Navan, Qantas, SHEIN and many more – with fully integrated solutions to manage everything from business accounts, payments, spend management and treasury, to embedded finance at a global scale.

Proudly founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 1,700 of the brightest and most innovative people in tech across 26 offices around the globe. Valued at US$6.2 billion and backed by world-leading investors including Visa, Airtree, Blackbird, Sequoia, DST Global, Greenoaks, Salesforce Ventures, Lone Pine, and Square Peg, Airwallex is leading the charge in building the global payments and financial platform of the future. If you’re ready to do the most ambitious work of your career, join us.

About the team

Corporate IT drives our IT support, IT engineering and business engineering functions at Airwallex. IT Engineering is the core team that drives our technology experiences from communications and video conferencing to managing our computers, applications, identity and access management. We design, build and run the systems and services our Airwallex team uses to build our product, serve our customers and run our business. We partner with every team in the business, from Finance to Engineering, People Operations and Support and solve problems and create solutions for the many challenges our teams face.

What you’ll do

As an IT Engineer, you'll be at the forefront of resolving technical challenges for our business and IT operations teams. You'll tackle system issues and escalations head-on, implementing robust solutions to drive efficiency. With a strong emphasis on identity engineering, you'll own and optimize our Okta platform, defining how employees access our services globally. Your expertise in access controls and authentication rules will make you the go-to subject matter expert for both IT and INFOSEC, offering a significant opportunity to build a world-class identity function within our IT engineering team.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain our identity and authentication systems at Airwallex (Okta, Google Workspace, etc.)
• Manage and improve our auth policies, access controls and build (or rebuild) a strong access management policy within our identity systems
• Automate and orchestrate user lifecycles across our systems and services - from beginning to end
• Own the full lifecycle of features and products within this space, from proof-of-concept to implementation to operations and maintenance – leading projects from start to finish
• Handle escalations from IT teams where relevant
• Work closely with INFOSEC, People Ops, Engineering and IT teams to build systems that scale as we grow globally
• Integrate our tools with new and existing platforms (cloud, GCP, etc.) and across our SaaS portfolio (SFDC, Slack, Google, etc.)
• Build and maintain custom tools or services if needed to solve our problems
• Respond to incidents as part of an on-call roster or in emergencies
• Write documentation and maintain diagrams of your solutions and applications, ensuring readability and understanding
• Work with IT Operations and IT Engineering to help fill gaps and collaborate on other projects and services
• Constantly learn, test, evaluate and enhance our products and offerings – never letting anything get stale

Who you are

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, 5+ years of relevant experience in a similar role.
• Strong, demonstrated written and verbal English communication skills,
• Demonstrated ability to write strong technical documents
• Expert level understanding of common identity standards, including SAML, OAuth, SSO, etc.
• Expert level experience with Okta
• Experience with a programming language, such as python, and infrastructure as code (i.e. Terraform) and scripting or automation tools
• Experience using and understanding of cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, etc.)
• Understanding of RBAC, ABAC, PBAC, ACLs and common access management principles in security and corporate IT environments
• Experience working in all SaaS-based systems and applications
• Strong understanding of MDM systems (macOS, windows; kandji, JAMF, intune, etc.)
• Ability to move fast and urgently, making correct decisions and assumptions – sometimes without all the information

Equal opportunity