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Find out more about our flexible work culture atcomputershare.com/flex.\nWe give you a world of potential\nTechnology underpins everything we do. We are looking for an experienced and influential engineering leader to define and deliver the global strategy for our core infrastructure services, identity platforms and network security controls.\nThis is a senior strategic role with the opportunity to shape CTO direction across identity, network security and zero trust. Connecting enterprise architecture, information security, service operations and business-aligned technology teams, turning business and regulatory requirements into secure, resilient and consistently engineered global services.\nA role you will love\nAs Head of Core Services Engineering, you will lead the engineering and lifecycle management of tier-0 services that are fundamental to the security, resilience and operation of our organisation. These include DNS, DHCP, IP address management, network time, secure access, identity and access management, privileged access, identity governance, PKI, cryptography, load balancing, network surveillance and monitoring.\nOther key responsibilities:\nDefine and lead the global strategy, standards and multi-year roadmap for core services and network security, aligned with CTO, CISO and enterprise architecture direction.\nAct as a design authority for core services, establishing reference architectures, approved patterns, engineering standards and reusable frameworks.\nOwn budgets, investment cases, licences, renewals, hardware lifecycle, support contracts and strategic vendor relationships.\nLead audit, control testing, disaster recovery and remediation activity across identity, access and core network controls.\nBuild, lead and develop distributed engineering teams across EMEA, North America and Australia, creating a culture of automation, accountability, reliability and continuous improvement.\nWhat will you bring to the role?\nYou will have extensive experience leading identity or core infrastructure services in a large, regulated and geographically distributed organisation. You will be comfortable setting strategic direction while retaining the technical credibility to facilitate architecture discussions, challenge designs and make decisions affecting critical global services.\nOther key skills required for the role include:\nEssential\nDeep knowledge of core infrastructure services, including DNS, DHCP, IPAM, DDI platforms and resilient network-time architectures.\nStrong experience of secure access and web security technologies, including SASE/SSE, Zscaler, proxy, WAF, load balancing and application delivery. \nArchitecture-level understanding of Active Directory, Microsoft Entra ID, hybrid identity, conditional access, federation and modern authentication protocols.\nExperience with privileged access management and identity governance platforms, ideally including CyberArk and SailPoint.\nKnowledge of zero trust architecture, MFA, FIDO2/passkeys, certificate-based authentication, device trust and risk-based access controls.\nStrong understanding of PKI, HSMs, certificate lifecycle automation, cryptographic standards and emerging post-quantum requirements.\nExperience integrating monitoring and observability platforms with SIEM, IT service management and configuration-management capabilities.\nExperience of agile delivery, product roadmaps, prioritised backlogs and service-management practices.\nCommercial expertise covering financial modelling, TCO analysis, vendor management, contract negotiation and SLA management.\nExcellent communication and influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex infrastructure, security and resilience topics into business value for executive, risk and technical audiences.\nDesirable\nRelevant professional certifications would be advantageous, including:\nCISSP, CISM, CCSP or equivalent security qualifications\nCyberArk, SailPoint or Ping Identity certification\nZscaler, Cisco, F5 or Infoblox certification\nYour decisions will directly influence our organisation’s security posture, operational resilience and regulatory standing. You will establish the engineering direction for critical global services and help ensure that investments in identity, network security and core infrastructure deliver sustainable business value.\nRewards designed for you\nFlexible work to help you find the best balance between work and lifestyle\nHealth and wellbeing rewards that can be tailored to support you and your family\nInvest in our business by setting aside salary to purchase shares in our company, and you’ll receive a company contribution as well.\nExtra rewards ranging from recognition awards and team get togethers to helping you invest in your future\nAnd more. Ours is a welcoming and close-knit community, with experienced colleagues ready to help you grow. 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