Senior Cyber and Identity Engineer

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Air New Zealand is seeking a Senior Cyber and Identity Engineer to lead the engineering and operation of enterprise identity services in a Microsoft ecosystem (AD and AAD), designing secure, automated identity lifecycle and access management, and owning integrations with ServiceNow, Workday and SailPoint. You’ll provide technical leadership across CI/CD, containerisation, and multi-environment deployments, while driving incident response and continuous improvement. Key requirements include extensive hands-on experience with AD/AAD at scale, RBAC and Privileged Access Management, Java or Python development, and cloud IaaS/ECS/EKS/RDS in multi-vendor environments. On site in Auckland, safety checks apply. To apply, tailor your CV to show scalable identity platforms, automation wins, and cross-functional impact. Kia ora.

Job Description

Kia ora!   

Protecting identity is critical to how we keep our people, customers, and systems safe. As a Senior Cyber & Identity Engineer at Air New Zealand, you’ll play a key role in shaping secure, scalable, and automated identity solutions that support our future-fit digital airline. 

This role sits within the Cyber Security Identity Chapter, and you’ll act as a subject matter expert, working closely with engineers, architects, product teams, and vendors to evolve our identity ecosystem and deliver next-generation identity lifecycle management. 

About the role: 

• Lead the engineering and operation of enterprise identity services within a Microsoft identity ecosystem, including Active Directory (AD) and Azure Active Directory (AAD). 
• Design, build, and evolve identity lifecycle and access management solutions with a strong focus on automation, security, and resilience. 
• Own complex integrations across upstream and downstream systems such as ServiceNow, Workday, and SailPoint. 
• Provide technical leadership across code management, CI/CD pipelines, containerisation, and multi-environment deployments. 
• Drive problem management, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement of identity services. 
• Act as an escalation point, contributing to on call support and guiding operational excellence. 

What we’re looking for: 

• Extensive experience engineering and supporting enterprise identity platforms in large, complex environments. 
• Experience in enterprise Role Based Access Control and Privileged Access Management. 
• Development capability, ideally in languages such as Java or Python, with experience designing production-grade solutions. 
• Deep hands-on experience with AD and AAD in enterprise scale environments. 
• Experience with Cloud based infrastructure and services such as IaaS, ECS/EKS/RDS. 
• Proven experience working across multi-vendor IAM ecosystems and modern DevOps toolchains. 
• Confidence influencing technical direction, making sound judgement calls, and mentoring other engineers. 
• Comfort working with ambiguity, balancing risk, delivery, and long-term platform health. 

If you bring most of this experience, along with transferable skills and the drive to grow, we’d love to hear from you. Please note this role is safety sensitive and will require you to undergo additional pre-employment checks.

Sounds like the role you're looking for? Apply online now!  

Additional Information

At Air New Zealand, we are proudly committed to diversity, equity and inclusion and believe in creating a truly inclusive workplace where everyone can be themselves and thrive. Our people are our greatest asset – because while everything else we do in our operation can be replicated by our competitors, it is our people that truly set us apart. We are firm believers in celebrating the differences and diversity of thought our people bring to their roles. We encourage candidates from diverse backgrounds, including those with a disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or are neurodiverse to apply for our roles.

If you have encountered any accessibility barriers and require further information or reasonable accommodations to our recruitment process, please reach out to the recruiter listed on this job advert so they are able to support you to freely participate equitably in our recruitment and selection process.

Whāia te pae tawhiti kia tata. Ko te pae tata whakamaua, kia tina.

"Seek to bring distant horizons closer. Once near, seize them and make them your reality."