IT Manager

Stake is looking for an IT Manager to join us at our Bondi Junction HQ, with a flexible hybrid working model (3 days in the office, 2 WFH).

We’re an Australian investing platform that helps ambitious people confidently grow their wealth. By offering seamless, immersive access to the share markets, we’ve empowered a new wave of investors. Stake has grown fast from a fintech startup into a robust financial services company. Today we have 700,000+ customers and more than A$5 billion under administration.

At Stake, we break barriers in everything we do. Just like our customers, we’re driven by ambition. Our desire for continuous growth is what creates the collaborative and high-performance environment we work in. Though we’re spread around the world, we’re a unified team moving towards a shared vision: to unleash the investor in everyone.

Join us as we continue to reshape the financial industry, inspiring investor confidence and celebrating our wins along the way.

About this role

As the IT Manager at Stake, you will lead the IT team and play a pivotal role in empowering employees, both in the Sydney office and globally, to perform at their best. This involves comprehensive management of IT infrastructure, including the configuration, deployment, maintenance, and monitoring of hardware, software, and network services. You will be responsible for planning and executing IT projects and initiatives, ensuring a reliable and efficient IT environment. Collaborating closely with the DevSecOps and Engineering teams, you will maintain a best-in-class tech stack at Stake, while also working with broader Stake teams to address their diverse IT requirements. Your responsibilities will include:

• Provide on-site and remote IT support for Stake employees, and escalate to vendors or external support services where required
• Monitor and troubleshoot issues with office IT equipment, ensuring that all equipment is in working order and provide support to employees
• Oversee hardware lifecycles working with external vendors to acquire and dispose of hardware
• Work with SaaS system owners to ensure appropriate configurations and controls are in place
• Lead IT projects for both new and existing systems
• Work closely with the security team to ensure a secure operating environment is maintained
• Administer the core platforms used in the Stake IT environment

A bit about you

• Proficiency in desktop operating environments (e.g., Windows, macOS).
• Experience with Google Workspace suite (e.g., Gmail, Calendar, Drive).
• Experience with SSO and IdP providers (e.g., Google, EntraID, Okta).
• Experience with mobile device management (MDM) principles and practices particularly with JAMF, Microsoft Intune, and Action1.
• Familiarity with the usage and administration of Atlassian suite (e.g., Jira, Confluence) within a business-critical context.
• Experience with collaboration equipment and systems (e.g. Google Hangouts, Zoom).

At Stake, we’re more interested in your attitude than your resume. If you believe this is a role you want to jump into, please apply and let us know why in your cover letter!

Benefits of working at Stake

You’ll have the opportunity to work with autonomy while learning from some of the best talent in the industry, playing a meaningful role in building a company that has loads of positive momentum and excitement around it. Having said that, we also have perks.

Please see on our Careers website the list of benefits under our Grow with Stake program. They include:

• Professional development allowance
• Wellbeing allowance
• Up to 16 weeks of paid parental leave
• Childcare allowance
• Extra paid leave during tough times
• Discretionary performance bonus and talent referral bonus

Stake is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We’re proactive about providing an inclusive work environment and do not discriminate based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age or disability status. We’re also endorsed by WORK180 as a great employer for women.

It all comes together to explain why Stake placed 1st in the 2024 AFR BOSS Best Places to Work list for the Banking, Superannuation & Financial Services category, across all of Australia and New Zealand.

So what happens next?

Once we've received your application, we'll give it the attention it deserves, and you'll hear from us regardless of the outcome. If we think you’d be a great fit for our team, we’ll give you a call and take it from there.

To all recruitment agencies: Stake does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to our jobs alias or directly to Stake employees. Stake is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.