IT Security Sydney Permanent Strong Machine Identity & Authentication background required Join a highly collaborative team with excellent growth and career progression Hybrid Working - 3 days in Office About the role We are partnering with a leading global organisation seeking a Staff Engineer within their platform engineering team, focused on building next-generation machine identity and authentication systems that enable secure, large-scale distributed computing across global environments. The organisation operates at significant scale across multiple regions and is heavily investing in modern zero-trust architecture, with a strong focus on eliminating static credentials and enabling fully automated service-to-service authentication. This role sits within a highly technical engineering team responsible for designing and delivering foundational identity infrastructure across cloud platforms, APIs, and internal systems. Alongside hands-on engineering, you will engage with senior stakeholders to shape technical strategy, influence architecture direction and guide decision-making across the organisation. What you’ll be doing Lead the design and implementation of machine identity and authentication systems at scale Architect secure integration across IAM, cloud platforms (e.g. AWS), API gateways, and service mesh environments Develop production-grade identity systems and prototypes using modern engineering practices Replace legacy authentication mechanisms with modern, cryptographically sound approaches Work hands-on across complex distributed systems challenges in identity and trust Engage with stakeholders to define strategy and influence technical direction Provide architectural leadership across engineering teams and platform initiatives What you bring Strong experience designing and building security or identity solutions at enterprise scale Proven ability to write production-quality code in either Python or Go Experience working across multiple identity layers including application authentication, cloud IAM (AWS/Azure/GCP), and API gateway security Deep understanding of machine identity concepts, including certificates vs tokens and federation design Hands-on experience debugging and operating distributed authentication systems Ability to engage effectively with stakeholders while maintaining a strong delivery focus Experience with workload identity platforms, service mesh or API gateway authentication, or contributions to identity/zero-trust projects will be highly regarded This is a permanent role, you must have full working rights and currently reside in Sydney to be considered for this role.
