IT Systems Engineer, MENA (6-month Part-time)
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- About Brain Co.
- Brain Co. is an applied AI startup co-founded by Jared Kushner and Elad Gil, and backed by leading Silicon Valley builders including Patrick Collison and Andrej Karpathy.
- We are building AI applications for the world’s most important institutions, delivering impact on real-world problems across governments, healthcare systems, and critical industries.
- Our progress so far:
- Automated construction permitting for a sovereign government 80% faster, unlocking $375M+ in value
- Optimized supply chains for a leading global energy company 30% lower cost, 99% reliability, preventing $100M+ in losses
- Streamlined hospital patient care across national health systems 40% better outcomes, 80% less admin work
- Company momentum:
- Raised a $55M Series A from leading investors
- Built a team of 70+ AI experts from Tesla, Google DeepMind, NVIDIA, and Databricks
- As our IT Engineer, you'll own the corporate technology layer end-to-end — identity and access management, SaaS tooling, device security, and the employee-facing systems that keep a fast-growing company running safely.
- This is a high-ownership role at the intersection of IT engineering and corporate security: you'll own the IT execution across identity, access, device, and SaaS — contributing directly to security programs like SOC 2 and Zero Trust — while also serving as the first line of support for our team's day-to-day needs.
- You'll work closely with Security, HR, and Engineering to build the operational foundation that lets Brain Co. scale without sacrificing security or employee experience.
Identity & Access Management
- Own our Okta environment and consolidate SSO: migrations, managing provisioning, lifecycle automation, and federation across all departments.
- Implement and improve our 3-tier access entitlement model: auto-grant for Tier 1, manager approval for Tier 2, manager + security approval for Tier 3.
- Build and operationalize HRIS-triggered provisioning and offboarding automation across our identity and SaaS stack.
Corporate Security Operations
- Support access review programs and contribute to SOC 2 compliance efforts — maintaining audit trails, approval chains, and provisioning logs.
- Contribute to Zero Trust and endpoint security initiatives: device trust, EDR integration, MDM, and least-privilege access across corporate and BYOD devices.
- Drive SaaS hygiene across our tooling estate — shadow IT discovery, configuration hardening, and data classification in partnership with the security team.
IT Engineering & Automation
- Build the integrations and automation that eliminate manual IT work — connecting identity, HRIS, and SaaS tooling into scalable provisioning workflows.
- Own the access request process end-to-end, and maintain the runbooks, documentation, and self-service resources that keep the team unblocked.
Service Desk & Employee Experience
- Partner on IT support for a 70+ person team –– triaging and resolving hardware and software issues with pragmatism and good judgment.
- Own device lifecycle and support new hire onboarding end-to-end, ensuring a seamless Day 1 experience.
- You Might Be a Great Fit If You…
- Have 4+ years of experience in IT engineering, corporate security, or a combined IT/SecOps role with hands-on ownership of identity and SaaS environments.
- Have deep, practical experience with Okta — SSO configuration, lifecycle management, MFA policies, and group-based provisioning.
- Have built or managed HRIS/IT integrations and understand how provisioning pipelines work across HR, identity, and downstream SaaS tools.
- Have run access reviews and understand what SOC 2 access control evidence looks like — logs, approval chains, audit trails.
- Are comfortable in the command line and can write scripts (Terraform, Python, Bash, or similar) to automate repetitive IT work.
- Have supported end users at a fast-moving company and know how to balance velocity with security without being a blocker.
- Think in terms of systems and workflows, not just tickets — you look for root causes and build durable fixes.
- Thrive in ambiguous, high-agency environments and want to own a function, not just execute tasks.
- Bonus points for:
- Hands-on experience with Rippling or a similar HRIS platform.
- Familiarity with MDM platforms (Jamf, Kandji, or Intune) for Mac and Windows fleets.
- Experience with Google Workspace administration and security hardening.
- Prior work at a startup where you wore both IT and security hats simultaneously.
Why Join Us
- Drive corporate IT at a company deploying AI to governments, hospitals, and critical industries — the stakes are real.
- Build systems from scratch with a clear roadmap, real ownership, and direct impact on how the company scales IT.
- Work alongside senior engineers from Tesla, DeepMind, Databricks, and other top engineering organizations.
- Ship meaningful automation and IT platform infrastructure — not just keep the lights on.
- Earn competitive compensation and meaningful equity in a high-growth company.
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