IT & Security Manager

Founded in 2017, Wayve is the leading developer of Embodied AI technology. Our advanced AI software and foundation models enable vehicles to perceive, understand, and navigate any complex environment, enhancing the usability and safety of automated driving systems.

Our vision is to create autonomy that propels the world forward. Our intelligent, mapless, and hardware-agnostic AI products are designed for automakers, accelerating the transition from assisted to automated driving.

In our fast-paced environment big problems ignite us—we embrace uncertainty, leaning into complex challenges to unlock groundbreaking solutions. We aim high and stay humble in our pursuit of excellence, constantly learning and evolving as we pave the way for a smarter, safer future.

At Wayve, your contributions matter. We value diversity, embrace new perspectives, and foster an inclusive work environment; we back each other to deliver impact.

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As Wayve grows across continents, we are looking for a Corporate Security Engineering Manager to own the systems and controls layer the whole company runs on: identity, endpoint, device and asset lifecycle, SaaS, and the and the security controls implemented in all of them. Most of this role is platform ownership. You will lead a distributed team of engineers across the UK, Germany and the US.

This is a build role. We are standing this layer up properly for the first time, so you will shape how it works rather than inherit someone else's design, and the team and headcount to do it are already approved.

It is one of three peer leadership roles in our infrastructure, IT and security function, all reporting to the same Head of IT. One peer owns the network estate, one owns our global support service, and you own the platforms and the controls. You will also work closely with our central Security team and with the engineering teams whose work depends the platforms you own.

You will do well here if you like owning platforms end to end, turning manual work into automation, and growing the engineers around you.

• Own the operation of our corporate security controls: endpoint hardening, identity and access, privileged access, vulnerability and patch management, and access reviews.

• Partner with our central Security team on policy, vulnerability management and incident response. They own those processes; you make them real in the IT environment.

• Own Okta and everything on it: application onboarding, SSO and SAML migration, group and attribute automation, the application catalogue, and the automation that grants and revokes access. Our Helpdesk Lead runs the joiner, mover and leaver process itself; you own the platform it runs on and the evidence that access was revoked.

• Own endpoint management across a genuinely mixed Mac, Windows and Linux fleet, covering enrolment, baselines, patching and compliance reporting.

• Own device and asset lifecycle and SaaS and licensing, including records, reconciliation, audit process, inventory accuracy, tenant administration and vendor relationships.

• Lead, grow and hire a distributed team across three countries and several time zones, and develop engineers into domain owners with clear standards behind each domain.

• Partner with the Helpdesk Lead on what gets automated away, with the Network Manager on work that crosses both lines such as 802.1x and device posture, and act as the function's interface to compliance on identity, endpoint and asset controls.

• Turn certification requirements into implemented controls, and into evidence the platform produces on demand.

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