Automation IT Engineer — Identity & SaaS (Equity)

Ema; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Okta Workflows exposure

SOC 2 / ISO 27001 experience

AWS/GCP admin or Terraform

Okta or Kandji certifications

Job summary

Ema is building the Universal AI Employee and seeks an IT Engineer to own corporate IT end to end, including identity, devices, SaaS, and compliance across 200+ devices in the US, UK, Canada and India. This role isn’t a help desk; it focuses on automating IT tasks to minimize manual work and enhance employee IT experiences.

Applicants should be proficient in Okta and Google Workspace administration, with strong scripting skills and a track record of shipping automation.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years in IT systems, endpoint or identity engineering.
• Hands-on Okta (or similar IdP) and Google Workspace administration.
• Working knowledge of SSO, SAML, OIDC and SCIM.
• Mac endpoint management experience (Kandji or similar).
• Python or Bash scripting, with at least one shipped automation you can walk us through.

Responsibilities

• Treat every recurring task as an automation candidate, building workflows with Python, Bash, APIs, Okta Workflows and AI coding tools.
• Own the joiner, mover and leaver lifecycle with People Ops via Rippling → Okta → SCIM, moving it from tickets to policy-driven automation, including access reviews.
• Administer Okta, Google Workspace, Slack and Atlassian; configure SSO (SAML/OIDC), SCIM and MFA across all apps.
• Manage the Mac fleet in Kandji: enrollment, automated OS patching, encryption baselines and continuous drift detection.
• Maintain SaaS inventory and usage programmatically, and reclaim unused licenses automatically.
• Generate evidence for SOC 2, ISO 27001 and AI governance frameworks continuously, as a byproduct of automated operations.
• Maintain runbooks, a knowledge base and an integration registry; provide Tier 1/2 support within defined SLAs.
• Be the go-to for Finance and HR on tool access, licensing, renewals and billing.

Skills

Python

Bash scripting

Identity engineering

Troubleshooting

Tools

Okta administration

Google Workspace administration

Kandji

Job description

Ema is building the Universal AI Employee and seeks an IT Engineer to own corporate IT end to end, including identity, devices, SaaS, and compliance across 200+ devices in the US, UK, Canada and India. This role isn’t a help desk; it focuses on automating IT tasks to minimize manual work and enhance employee IT experiences.

Applicants should be proficient in Okta and Google Workspace administration, with strong scripting skills and a track record of shipping automation.