Summary
What you’ll impact
The organization is seeking a foundational IT Systems Engineer for its Public Sector IT team to design, build, and operate secure, scalable infrastructure. The role focuses on automation across identity and access management, endpoint management, and the broader SaaS stack using tools such as identity and access management automation platforms, government cloud environments, and federal compliance frameworks. The engineer will ensure audit‑ready, zero‑trust systems in a high‑security environment.
Responsibilities
What you'll do
- Assist with the administration of our tech stack with platforms such as Okta, GCC High, Opal, Slack, Jamf, Jira, and many more
- Provide escalated assistance to the IT Services and Support team
- Partner with Security/Compliance on audit artifacts (SSP updates, POA&Ms, control mappings to NIST 800-53/171, CMMC 2.0).
- Create and update technology documentation for internal IT teams and Scale employees
- Design and maintain Zero-Trust controls (device posture, network segmentation, Conditional Access) across GCC High/Azure Gov and Okta.
- Build Okta Workflows and lightweight services (webhooks/queues) to automate joiner–mover–leaver events, access reviews, and deprovisioning.
- Own change management for IT systems in regulated environments (CAB records, rollback plans, validation evidence).
Requirements
What you’ll bring
- 5+ years of IT systems, infrastructure, and/or engineering experience
- Experience with integrating with SaaS APIs and SDKs
- Experience with leveraging Okta or similar identity management systems for authentication and provisioning methods such as SAML, OIDC, and SCIM
- Scripting experience with Python, Powershell, and/or bash
- Experience working within SCIFs
- Familiarity with IL6 / FedRAMP High / CMMC 2.0 control families and how they translate to concrete IT configs