Position: Senior Cybersecurity Consultant
Datacom Location: Across New Zealand (Auckland slightly preferred)
Security Requirements: NZ permanent residents and citizens only due to security requirements
Full Time, Permanent Position.
Our Why
Datacom works with organisations and communities across Australia and New Zealand to make a difference in people’s lives and help them to use the power of tech to innovate and grow.
Our Team
Our culture is built on people who love coming to work to solve problems, and we embrace those who lean into a problem rather than lean away. Using your cybersecurity expertise, you will join ANZ’s largest cybersecurity and connectivity services company as part of a dedicated team, proud of delivering top of the range advice and guidance to our customers.
About the Role (Your Why)
The Senior Identity and Access Management (IAM) Consultant role is responsible for providing strategic and technical expertise across all aspects of Identity and Access Management, helping organisations strengthen security, improve user access experiences, and protect critical systems and data from unauthorised access. This is an opportunity to join a growing Identity Security practice delivering modern identity solutions across Workforce and Customer Identity domains. You will work with leading technologies, support digital transformation initiatives, and help customers strengthen security while improving user experience.
Due to the possible clients you would work with, you must be a permanent resident or citizen of New Zealand to meet security requirements,
What You’ll Do:
- Design, implement, and support Workforce IAM solutions, including Microsoft Entra ID, Microsoft Entra External ID, Azure B2C, Okta/Auth0, Saviynt, CyberArk, Delinea across enterprise environments.
- Configure and manage:
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA)
- Conditional Access
- Identity Protection
- Privileged Identity Management (PIM)/Privileged Access Management (PAM)
- Identity Governance
- Access Reviews
- Lifecycle Workflows
- Design and implement Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) and least-privilege access models.
- Support identity lifecycle processes including:
- Joiner, Mover and Leaver (JML)
- Provisioning and deprovisioning
- Access requests and approvals
- Access certifications and attestation
- Integrate enterprise applications with identity providers using:
- SAML
- OAuth 2.0
- OpenID Connect (OIDC)
- SCIM
- WS-Federation where required.
- Design and support secure and scalable CIAM platforms.
- Develop and maintain:
- Custom authentication journeys
- User registration and profile management
- Social and federated identity integrations
- Adaptive and passwordless authentication experiences
- Consulting and Delivery Responsibilities
- Participate in IAM strategy, architecture, and transformation initiatives.
- Conduct IAM assessments and maturity reviews.
- Collaborate with project managers, architects, developers, and business stakeholders.
- Provide technical leadership and mentoring to junior IAM consultants where required.
- Support managed services and operational IAM activities as needed.
- Produce high-quality technical and business documentation including:
- Solution designs
- Architecture diagrams
- Statements of Work (SoW)
- Assessment reports
- Runbooks and operational procedures
What You’ll Bring:
We are seeking a highly capable Mid to Senior Identity and Access Management (IAM) Specialist to join our growing identity security practice in New Zealand. This role requires deep expertise across both Workforce Identity and Access Management (WIAM) and Customer Identity and Access Management (CIAM), supporting organisations to design, implement, and optimise modern identity solutions.
The successful candidate will possess strong technical and consulting capabilities with hands-on experience across Microsoft Entra ID, Saviynt, Auth0, Azure AD B2C (Microsoft Entra External ID for Customers), and Microsoft Entra External ID.
This role involves delivering secure, scalable, and business-aligned identity solutions while working closely with customers, project teams, and security stakeholders, along with:
- 8+ years' experience in Identity and Access Management.
- Experience with:
- Active Directory and hybrid identity
- PowerShell or automation scripting
- Azure Functions and API integrations
- DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code approaches for IAM
- PAM and Zero Trust concepts.
- Experience working within consulting or customer-facing delivery environments.
- Personal Attributes
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Ability to translate technical concepts into business outcomes.
- Self-motivated with strong delivery focus.
- Collaborative and customer-centric mindset.
- Ability to work independently and within multidisciplinary teams.
Why Join Us Here at Datacom?
Datacom is one of Australia and New Zealand’s largest suppliers of Information Technology professional services. We have managed to maintain a dynamic, agile, small business feel that is often diluted in larger organisations of our size. It's our people that give Datacom its unique culture and energy that you can feel from the moment you meet with us.
We care about our people and provide a range of perks such as social events, chill-out spaces, remote working, flexi-hours and professional development courses to name a few. You’ll have the opportunity to learn, develop your career, connect and bring your true self to work. You will be recognised and valued for your contributions and be able to do your work in a collegial, flat-structured environment.
We operate at the forefront of technology to help Australia and New Zealand’s largest enterprise organisations explore possibilities and solve their greatest challenges, so you will never run out of interesting new challenges and opportunities.
We want Datacom to be an inclusive and welcoming workplace for everyone and take pride in the steps we have taken and continue to take to make our environment fun and friendly, and our people feel supported.