IT & Security Manager

Overview

Lead, grow and mentor a distributed IT and security team to secure Wayve’s multi-site infrastructure while enabling scalable identity, device management, and compliance controls. You’ll drive engineering ownership of security platforms, collaborate with cross-functional leaders, and ensure governance as Wayve expands. This role blends hands-on technical decisions with strategic direction to support autonomous driving innovation. The opportunity offers impactful work shaping security foundations at a fast-growing AI company.

Pay / Benefits

• salary benchmarked against market
• equity with long-term ownership
• relocation support and visa sponsorship
• hybrid working model with core hours
• learning and development budgets
• comprehensive health and dental benefits, maternity/paternity leave, pension and wellbeing support

Responsibilities

• Build and lead a growing IT/security team across the UK, Germany and the US, while staying hands-on on critical technical decisions
• Define and govern direction for identity, endpoint management, security operations, SaaS administration and asset lifecycle
• Review designs and standards and mentor engineers to become domain owners
• Collaborate with peer leaders to maintain clear ownership and effective controls as the company scales
• Own and evolve Okta, including SSO migrations, app onboarding, access automation and revocation evidence
• Strengthen endpoint security, vulnerability management, patching, privileged access, and incident response across Mac, Windows, and Linux
• Improve device and asset lifecycle management, inventory accuracy, SaaS administration and licensing
• Build scalable security controls and produce auditable evidence for standards like TISAX, ISO 27001 or similar
• Grow a newly formed team into a high-performing group of domain owners

Key requirements

• Led an IT, security or infrastructure team with hiring, performance management and engineer development
• Hands-on experience with identity platforms like Okta or Entra
• Experience with endpoint management tools such as Jamf or Intune
• Managed Linux fleets alongside Mac and Windows environments
• Practical security operations experience: hardening, vulnerability/patch management, access reviews, incident response
• Implemented controls and produced evidence for security certifications or audits (TISAX, ISO 27001, SOC 2)
• Scripting or infrastructure-as-code to automate processes and set technical standards
• Comfortable scaling a multi-site corporate environment and collaborating with peer leaders across ownership domains

• Leadership and people development
• Cross-functional collaboration
• Performance management
• Okta or Entra
• Jamf or Intune
• Linux/macOS/Windows administration

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