Associate Analyst on a cross functional team analyzing data provided by customers. Ensuring project schedules are met and supporting internal teams with vendor interactions.
About the role
- Join UpGuard's IT and Security Operations team to enhance cybersecurity solutions and support systems. Collaborate with global workforce to troubleshoot and improve IT operations.
Responsibilities
- Run daily, weekly, and periodic IT and security checklists
- Troubleshoot issues, document fixes, and raise follow-up actions as needed
- Perform health checks across infrastructure and DevOps (e.g. uptime, CI/CD, compliance, alerts)
- Collaborate with DevOps and InfraOps on platform-level issues
- Monitor and action items in the IT support queue, with a proactive approach
- Prioritize tasks effectively and align timelines with stakeholders
- Deliver empathetic, solutions-oriented support across systems, hardware, and software
- Identify and propose improvements as you gain business context
- Work cross-functionally to implement automation, tooling, and platform enhancements
- Contribute to scripts, dashboards, and operational improvements
Requirements
- Practical experience in modern system administration across cloud-based infrastructure (e.g. GCP) and SaaS environments
- A strong understanding of identity and access management (e.g. Okta), including SSO/MFA, SCIM, and RBAC concepts and tooling
- Familiarity with low-code/no-code automation platforms (e.g. Zapier, N8N) and a mindset for streamlining repetitive tasks
- Experience managing and integrating enterprise SaaS applications, ideally in a high-growth or security-conscious environment
- A working knowledge of scripting (e.g. Bash, PowerShell, Python) to automate tasks, support system health checks, or build internal tooling
- Exposure to infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or similar — or a willingness to learn and contribute to InfraOps practices
- A thoughtful, empathetic approach to end-user support across globally distributed teams
- Hands-on experience supporting and managing laptop fleets (macOS and ChromeOS)
Benefits
- Monthly Lifestyle subsidy: use this for financial, physical, and mental wellbeing.
- WFH set-up allowance: to ensure you have the right environment to work in, we will help you get set up within your first 3 months at UpGuard.
- $1,500 USD annual Learning & Development allowance: to support your career development all team members will be able to expense development opportunities against this allowance.
- Generous Annual Leave/PTO allowances: time to recharge your batteries.
- 18 weeks paid Parental Leave: irrespective of parenting role.
- Personal Leave allowance: this includes sick & carer’s leave.
- Fully remote working environment: while we have physical offices in Sydney & Hobart, we do not mandate compulsory attendance.
- Top-spec hardware: all team members will be provided with top-spec laptops for their roles.
- Personal device security & online privacy protection subsidy: UpGuard provides team members with a paid subscription to personal device security & online privacy protection platform.
- Generative AI subsidy: UpGuard provides paid subscriptions for all team members to access generative AI tools to support their work.
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