Cloud Security Engineer, Specialist

Responsibilities :

- Design and implement enterprise identity solutions leveraging Okta Workforce Identity Cloud.

- Lead application onboarding using SAML, OIDC/OAuth, SCIM provisioning, federation, and lifecycle management.

- Define authentication, MFA, and access management patterns that improve security and user experience.

- Partner with cloud and platform engineering teams to integrate identity controls across enterprise platforms and cloud environments.

- Develop automation solutions using Okta APIs, scripting, workflows, and CI/CD pipelines to improve scalability and reduce manual effort.

- Automate operational processes, platform governance controls, application onboarding activities, and compliance reporting.

- Drive platform engineering best practices including GitHub-based CI/CD deployment models, testing strategies, release management, and configuration standardization.

- Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and capabilities to improve scalability, reliability, security, and operational effectiveness.

- Own platform resiliency initiatives include disaster recovery planning, service continuity testing, monitoring, observability, and operational readiness reviews.

- Participate in production support and critical incident response while driving permanent engineering solutions that eliminate recurring operational issues.

- Lead root cause analysis activities and implement preventative controls to improve platform stability.

- Establish and maintain monitoring, alerting, and operational dashboards that provide visibility into platform health and key performance indicators.

- Support audit readiness through controls, governance practices, documentation, and evidence management.

- Manage production changes, platform upgrades, vulnerability remediation, and operational support.

- Evaluate and adopt new capabilities that strengthen security, reliability, and efficiency.

- Serve as a technical leader and trusted advisor for enterprise identity and modern authentication services.

- Lead complex initiatives across cybersecurity, cloud, infrastructure, and application teams.

- Influence architecture decisions, engineering standards, and platform roadmaps through strong technical expertise and stakeholder engagement.

- Mentor engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and strengthen team capability through coaching and technical guidance.

- Drive measurable improvements in automation, onboarding velocity, platform resiliency, audit readiness, and operational effectiveness.

- Provides expert-level IT technical leadership that accelerates application onboarding through automation and engineering excellence.

- Improves platform reliability, resiliency, and security posture.

- Drives adoption of modern identity capabilities and best practices.

- Develop team capability through mentoring and technical leadership.

- Reduces operational risk while improving audit readiness and service quality.

Qualifications:

- 10+ years of broad experience working on large-scale systems or services, Cloud Security Engineering, Identity Platform Engineering, Identity and Access Management or related disciplines.

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.

- Extensive hands-on experience with Okta Workforce Identity Cloud, AWS.

- Preferred At least 2 current Okta certifications (e.g., Okta Certified Professional, Administrator, Consultant, Developer)

- Expert level experience with:
- SAML 2.0, OIDC/OAuth 2.0, SCIM

- Okta APIs, MFA, Sign-On Policies/Patterns

- Identity lifecycle management and federation design

- CI/CD pipelines, GitHub-based development, delivery, and Python or similar scripting languages

- Splunk/syslog analysis, ability to troubleshoot complex authentication issues

- AWS services including Lambda and Secrets Manager

- Incident management, root cause analysis, and production support

- Technical leadership and strategic thinking

- Mentoring and talent development

- Cross-functional collaboration

- Executive and stakeholder communication

- Driving outcomes through ambiguity

- Incident leadership and operational excellence

- Continuous improvement and production change leadership

- Preferred experience with Infrastructure as Code and Policy as Code e.g. Terraform

- Preferred experience with FastPass & Device Assurance

- Preferred experience with Directory services
Special Factors
Sponsorship
Vanguard is offering visa sponsorship for this position.
About Vanguard
At Vanguard, we don't just have a mission—we're on a mission.

To work for the long-term financial wellbeing of our clients. To lead through product and services that transform our clients' lives. To learn and develop our skills as individuals and as a team. From Malvern to Melbourne, our mission drives us forward and inspires us to be our best.

How We Work
Vanguard has implemented a hybrid working model for the majority of our crew members, designed to capture the benefits of enhanced flexibility while enabling in-person learning, collaboration, and connection. We believe our mission-driven and highly collaborative culture is a critical enabler to support long-term client outcomes and enrich the employee experience.