Aspire Looking for IT Lead at Bengaluru, Karnataka Full Time

We are the leading all-in-one finance operating system for growing businesses in South-East Asia. We are on a mission to reinvent business finance for a new generation of entrepreneurs and business owners, empowering startups and SMBs to realize their full potential.

We have successfully closed an oversubscribed US$ 100 million Series C equity round in 2023 led by Sequoia and Lightspeed with participation of Tencent and PayPal. Since its inception in 2018, we have has raised over US$ 300 million from world-class investors to power our solutions we have partnered with some of the best companies in the world such as Visa and Wise and help more than 15,000 businesses using our suite of products.

In 2020 we were awarded Hottest Startup by Singapore Business Review and Finalist MAS Fintech Awards. In 2021 and 2022 we were named in LinkedIn’s Top 5 Startups in Singapore and awarded Best Employer of the Year and best Payments Tech 2022 by Asia Fintech Awards.

You will be amazed by our energy and ambition. We are a team of ex-entrepreneurs, ex-founders, and A players with international and diverse (45% of us are women) backgrounds. We team up to excel in what we do, and don’t take NO for an answer.

We are expanding rapidly. Are you a top talent? Are you passionate about entrepreneurship? Join us and make an impact in the Fintech space!

About the role:
As the IT Lead Cloud/SaaS, you will be responsible for ensuring the proper administration of our IT systems, building and maintaining an internal IT infrastructure which supports business continuity and also ensures security. You will be reporting to Aspire’s Head of Information Security and will have the exciting opportunity to be part of a fast-growing team of IT and security specialists within the company. Currently there is little need for any on premise administration or physical tasks. We are looking for someone who has experience with cloud environments and Software as a service (SaaS).

What will you be doing?

Develop and implement the IT strategy and roadmap, aligned with the company’s business goals and objectives.

Develop and maintain policies and procedures for IT operations and IT security.

Evaluate and adopt new technologies, tools, and best practices for continuous automation and improvement of the IT ecosystem in a resource efficient way.

Ensure compliance with PDPA, PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, MAS TRM and MAS Cyber Hygiene.

Manage the purchase and usage of all licenses, employee hardware and software.Monitoring, analyzing logs and alerts to identify potential incidents.

Participating in incident response and disaster recovery planning and exercises.

Supporting IT integration operations, including (partly) hardware and software maintenance, backups, and system updates.

Providing technical support to internal teams and end-users.

Writing user manuals, procedures standard operating procedure (SOPs) and FAQs

Collaborate with the People Team to ensure that new hires have all necessary IT tools and applications.

Supporting and driving other daily IT and security tasks

We would love to get to know you if you have the following:
Minimum:
Based in ±3 hours to the Singapore time zone (GMT+8)

Good to very good written and spoken English communication skills

Minimum of 6 years of experience in IT, with a focus on cloud computing and SaaS in the tech/banking/financial sector

Experience with Slack, Okta, Azure environments, Google Workspace, Python and Jira

Someone who keeps up-to-date with the latest IT and security trends and technologies to maintain a strong security posture and IT service environment

The ideal candidate should have:
Exposed to AWS, GitHub, Notion, 1Password and Azure Logic Apps, Azure Sentinel

Worked Linux environments

Software development experience e.g. Python, Go, Bash, Powershell

Personal computer science or IT related projects in a personal blog or Github

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