Job description
Location: Remote US, East or Central Timezone
Axonius is looking for a highly motivated and experienced Director of IT Engineering to lead our global Corporate IT Engineering team. This is a strategic role reporting to the Vice President, Corporate IT. The ideal candidate will have a strong technical background, proven leadership experience, and a passion for building and scaling high-performing teams.
The person we have in mind for this role:
- Has experience maturing and managing an IT Engineering team at a rapidly growing technology company.
- Understands enterprise technology based on hands-on experience.
- Knows the modern IT stack that’s based mostly on SaaS products.
- Has implemented enterprise software and scalable identity and access management processes.
- Is effective at communicating with people from different cultures and time zones
The Director of IT Engineering, is the leader of a multi-discipline technical and strategic team, tasked with designing, implementing, and supporting all internal corporate systems.
You will:
- Lead a global, growing team of Corporate IT Engineers
- Manage the systems and processes, including but not limited to, strategy, planning, implementation, and ongoing support of business operations in alignment with budgetary compliance and driving efficiencies
- Develop and set priorities for the design, maintenance, development, and evaluation of all corporate systems, endpoints and office infrastructure
- Design and implement short and long-term strategic plans to ensure system designs meet existing and future requirements
- Establish and develop strategic plans for implementing a scalable identity and access management model and automated processes
- Assess and deliver IT products/services in alignment with evolving business needs and objectives
- Build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders, partners, and peers
- Identify and drive delivery of opportunities for automation and process simplification
You’ll join Axonius at a crucial time in our journey, maturing our Corporate IT Engineering practices to help fuel the current and subsequent stages of the company’s growth.
Coming into this role you need to have substantial experience with:
- 5+ years of experience leading large technical teams and projects, owning internal IT systems, and influencing senior-level management and key stakeholders
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in Corporate systems design, systems architecture, or other infrastructure technologies
- 8+ years of experience in managing identity and access management tools, authentication protocols and access management processes
- Expert knowledge of IT Infrastructure\system technologies and industry trends associated with productivity, cloud/SaaS, telecom, security, directory services, network, systems, conferencing, AV, communication, and end-user technologies
- Prior experience with Corporate systems and user experience, including Okta, Google Workspace, Slack, Zoom, Zendesk, Atlassian and other systems
- Communicating with a range of internal stakeholders in person, remotely, and in writing.
- Overseeing macOS and Windows-based enterprise environments that do not rely on Active Directory or on-site infrastructure, including the management of endpoint standards and processes for a global organization.
- Leading mid-size teams of geographically dispersed IT engineers and support technicians.
- Thorough knowledge of IT infrastructure technologies and understanding of industry trends
- Experience in process design, organizational transformation, and governance
- Experience in managing business-critical and customer-facing systems
- Strong understanding of public and private cloud architectures; experience with public cloud providers
- Able to provide architectural technical input and general direction to engineering teams and support team members
- Ability to work independently or through leading a team of professionals from critical-thinking workshops to the completion of mission-critical projects
- Must be able to create design documents, system operating procedures & FAQs.
We expect that to succeed in this role, candidates will need to have 10+ years of experience in the world of IT.
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Axonius is committed to fair and equitable compensation packages. A candidate’s salary will be based on qualifications and relevant experience. In addition to a competitive salary, our packages include stock options, attractive benefits, and an annual bonus.
Annual Salary Range (does not include bonus or equity)
$195,000—$225,000 USD
A little more about Axonius:
Axonius transforms asset intelligence into intelligent action. With the Axonius Asset Cloud, customers preemptively tackle high-risk and hard-to-spot threat exposures, misconfigurations, and overspending. The integrated platform brings together data from every system in an organization’s IT infrastructure to optimize mission-critical risk, performance, and cost measures via actionable intelligence. Covering cyber assets, software, SaaS applications, identities, vulnerabilities, infrastructure, and more, Axonius is the one place to go for Security, IT, and GRC teams to continuously drive actionability across the organization. Cited as one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity startups, with accolades from CNBC, Forbes, and Fortune, Axonius covers the lifecycle of millions of assets for leading customers across industries and around the world.
Axonius is named to the 2025 Fast Company World’s Most Innovative Companies and the 2024 Forbes Cloud 100. Axonius is recognized with the Great Place to Work Certification™ and for two years in a row, Axonius was ranked Deloitte Technology Fast 500 list. Axonius has been cited as the fastest-growing cybersecurity company in history by revenue.
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