Senior IT Engineer at Paystack

Senior IT Engineer at Paystack August, 2026 | MyJobMag window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-SMD4ZL13FW'); { "@context": "http://schema.org", "@type": "JobPosting", "title": "Senior IT Engineer", "datePosted": "2026-08-27T09:16:31+01:00", "validThrough": "2026-09-10T00:00:00+0000", "hiringOrganization" : { "@type" : "Organization", "name" : "Paystack", "sameAs" : "https://www.myjobmag.com/jobs-at/paystack" }, "employmentType": "Full Time , Hybrid", "experienceRequirements": { "@type" : "OccupationalExperienceRequirements", "monthsOfExperience" : "60" }, "industry": "Banking / Financial Services", "occupationalCategory":"ICT / Computer", "jobLocation": { "@type": "Place", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "addressLocality": "Lagos", "addressRegion": "Lagos", "addressCountry": "NG" } }, "image":"https://www.myjobmag.com/company_logo/99034paystack.jpg", "description": "<p><strong>About the Senior IT Engineer role</strong></p> <ul> <li>Our IT Operations team is a small, high-impact platform engineering unit.</li> <li>We manage the identity, endpoint, network, and access infrastructure for over 300 employees and 100+ outsourced agents across six offices Lagos, Nairobi, Accra, Cape Town, and Dubai.</li> <li>We manage a fully automated macOS fleet, every physical office network, and roughly thirty core applications secured behind SSO.</li> <li>We do all of this inside a highly regulated fintech environment that holds PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 certifications and operates under the CBN.</li> <li>Our environment is heavily integrated and highly automated.</li> <li>We&rsquo;ve built an identity lifecycle that flows automatically from our HR systems into our identity provider.</li> <li>Macs deploy zero-touch, and access requests provision themselves.</li> <li>As our scale and complexity increase, we are bringing on a Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer to expand our engineering capacity and provide critical redundancy across our Tier-1 systems.</li> <li>Reporting directly to the Head of IT, you will help drive, manage, and maintain this integrated ecosystem while executing on our long-term infrastructure roadmap.</li> </ul> <p><strong>We&rsquo;ll trust you to</strong></p> <ul> <li>Drive Identity Management:&nbsp;Manage our identity lifecycle. You will configure SAML and OIDC across our application estate, maintain SCIM provisioning, manage attribute-driven RBAC, and enforce phishing-resistant authentication.</li> <li>Maintain Lifecycle Automation:&nbsp;Support and improve the joiner/mover/leaver pipeline. Build automated processes for accessmenent from approval to access provisioning</li> <li>Manage the Fleet &amp; Device Trust:&nbsp;Oversee our macOS environment. This includes automated enrollment, configuration profiles, EDR, and enforcing DLP on outsourced devices. You will help maintain device trust as a real, certificate-backed control that rejects unmanaged or unpatched devices.</li> <li>Maintain Global Networks:&nbsp;Manage the physical network across six locations. You&rsquo;ll handle multi-WAN failover, VLAN segmentation, centrally managed wireless/switching, server rooms, and the carrier connectivity linking our on-premise infrastructure to the cloud.</li> <li>Drive the Zero Trust Migration:&nbsp;Help us execute the transition away from legacy VPNs. You will drive our move to Zero Trust Network Access ZTNA, enforcing per-application authorization based on real-time device posture.</li> <li>Build as Code:&nbsp;Treat the IT environment as code. You&rsquo;ll use Terraform, Git-based staging-to-production pipelines, and Python/Bash where no provider exists. Your first instinct should always be to reach for an API before logging into an admin console.</li> <li>Enforce Automated Compliance:&nbsp;Turn regulatory requirements into automated controls that generate their own evidence. We balance ISO 27001, ISO 20000, PCI-DSS, NDPR, and the CBN IT Blueprint simultaneously.</li> <li>Resolve Complex Tickets:&nbsp;We all work tickets leadership included. You will handle complex escalations and diagnose faults that span a firewall, a carrier, and a cloud provider all at once.</li> <li>Document for the Future:&nbsp;Write documentation to a standard that survives your absence.</li> </ul> <p><strong>You&rsquo;ll thrive in this role if you have</strong></p> <ul> <li>5+ years in infrastructure or systems engineering, ideally including time on a small, high-leverage team.</li> <li>Real depth in at least two of the four areas below, and enough baseline competence in the rest to handle an escalation we are not looking for a unicorn who is a master of all four:</li> <li>Identity &amp; Access Management:&nbsp;SAML 2.0, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM 2.0, LDAP, WebAuthn/FIDO2. You have actually built lifecycle automation, not just clicked through SSO setup wizards.</li> <li>Endpoint Management at Scale:&nbsp;Apple MDM protocols, zero-touch enrollment, declarative configurations, and compliance enforcement across hundreds of devices.</li> <li>Network Engineering:&nbsp;Multi-site and multi-carrier setups, VLANs, complex routing, firewall policies, multi-WAN failover, 802.1X, and RADIUS.</li> <li>Infrastructure as Code:&nbsp;Terraform, Git workflows with peer review, and enough Python, Go, or Bash to confidently build against a REST API.</li> </ul> <p>You should also have:</p> <ul> <li>Experience operating under external assessors with multiple active compliance frameworks.</li> <li>A track record of inheriting live, critical systems and improving them without breaking what already works.</li> <li>The engineering judgment to know when&nbsp;not&nbsp;to automate. Not everything needs to be code.</li> <li>Strong technical writing skills. 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  • Job Type Full Time , Hybrid
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  • Experience 5 years
  • Location Lagos
  • Job Field ICT / Computer&nbsp

  About the Senior IT Engineer role

  • Our IT Operations team is a small, high-impact platform engineering unit.
  • We manage the identity, endpoint, network, and access infrastructure for over 300 employees and 100+ outsourced agents across six offices (Lagos, Nairobi, Accra, Cape Town, and Dubai).
  • We manage a fully automated macOS fleet, every physical office network, and roughly thirty core applications secured behind SSO.
  • We do all of this inside a highly regulated fintech environment that holds PCI-DSS and ISO 27001 certifications and operates under the CBN.
  • Our environment is heavily integrated and highly automated.
  • We’ve built an identity lifecycle that flows automatically from our HR systems into our identity provider.
  • Macs deploy zero-touch, and access requests provision themselves.
  • As our scale and complexity increase, we are bringing on a Senior IT Infrastructure Engineer to expand our engineering capacity and provide critical redundancy across our Tier-1 systems.
  • Reporting directly to the Head of IT, you will help drive, manage, and maintain this integrated ecosystem while executing on our long-term infrastructure roadmap.

  We’ll trust you to

  • Drive Identity Management: Manage our identity lifecycle. You will configure SAML and OIDC across our application estate, maintain SCIM provisioning, manage attribute-driven RBAC, and enforce phishing-resistant authentication.
  • Maintain Lifecycle Automation: Support and improve the joiner/mover/leaver pipeline. Build automated processes for accessmenent from approval to access provisioning
  • Manage the Fleet & Device Trust: Oversee our macOS environment. This includes automated enrollment, configuration profiles, EDR, and enforcing DLP on outsourced devices. You will help maintain device trust as a real, certificate-backed control that rejects unmanaged or unpatched devices.
  • Maintain Global Networks: Manage the physical network across six locations. You’ll handle multi-WAN failover, VLAN segmentation, centrally managed wireless/switching, server rooms, and the carrier connectivity linking our on-premise infrastructure to the cloud.
  • Drive the Zero Trust Migration: Help us execute the transition away from legacy VPNs. You will drive our move to Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA), enforcing per-application authorization based on real-time device posture.
  • Build as Code: Treat the IT environment as code. You’ll use Terraform, Git-based staging-to-production pipelines, and Python/Bash where no provider exists. Your first instinct should always be to reach for an API before logging into an admin console.
  • Enforce Automated Compliance: Turn regulatory requirements into automated controls that generate their own evidence. We balance ISO 27001, ISO 20000, PCI-DSS, NDPR, and the CBN IT Blueprint simultaneously.
  • Resolve Complex Tickets: We all work tickets leadership included. You will handle complex escalations and diagnose faults that span a firewall, a carrier, and a cloud provider all at once.
  • Document for the Future: Write documentation to a standard that survives your absence.

  You’ll thrive in this role if you have

  • 5+ years in infrastructure or systems engineering, ideally including time on a small, high-leverage team.
  • Real depth in at least two of the four areas below, and enough baseline competence in the rest to handle an escalation (we are not looking for a unicorn who is a master of all four):
  • Identity & Access Management: SAML 2.0, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, SCIM 2.0, LDAP, WebAuthn/FIDO2. You have actually built lifecycle automation, not just clicked through SSO setup wizards.
  • Endpoint Management at Scale: Apple MDM protocols, zero-touch enrollment, declarative configurations, and compliance enforcement across hundreds of devices.
  • Network Engineering: Multi-site and multi-carrier setups, VLANs, complex routing, firewall policies, multi-WAN failover, 802.1X, and RADIUS.
  • Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Git workflows (with peer review), and enough Python, Go, or Bash to confidently build against a REST API.

  You should also have:

  • Experience operating under external assessors with multiple active compliance frameworks.
  • A track record of inheriting live, critical systems and improving them without breaking what already works.
  • The engineering judgment to know when not to automate. (Not everything needs to be code).
  • Strong technical writing skills. You write specs, procedures, and audit responses that other teams can actually understand and act on.

  Bonus points if you:

  • Experience with public cloud networking, certificate management, and identity federation.
  • Knowledge of X.509, mTLS, ACME, or SCEP for certificate-backed device identity.
  • Experience using osquery (or equivalent) and turning CIS benchmarks into enforced configurations.
  • Experience enforcing security baselines on BPOs and devices you do not physically own.
  • Tenant-level administration of enterprise collaboration suites, including deep DLP classification.
  • ITSM design experience under ISO 20000 or ITIL.

  Benefits

  • Competitive compensation package and benefits
  • 13th month bonus
  • TSG Equity compensation
  • Full medical coverage
  • Wellbeing stipend
  • Hybrid working environment
  • Smart, kind colleagues who are invested in your growth.

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