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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # IT Engineer - **Company:** Alaner - **Location:** France - **Experience:** Experienced - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Artificial Intelligence, Systems Engineering, Software as a Service, Cloud Computing Security, Identity and Access Management, Python (Programming Language), Zero Trust Network Access, Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML), Systems Integration, Datadog, Okta, Zapier, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Cloudflare, Gsuite - **Published:** September 8, 2026 - **Apply:** https://startup.jobs/it-engineer-alan-2-9948313 ## About the Role Must-have - Technical/hard skills: * 4-5+ years in IT engineering, platform, systems or corporate engineering, with real ownership of production-facing systems * Depth in at least one area (platform & automation, identity, endpoint & security) and demonstrated range beyond it. * You write code: not necessarily as a full-time software engineer, but Python, APIs and pull requests in a shared repo should feel normal * Structured problem-solving: diagnoses methodically, asks the right clarifying questions, thinks about failure modes and rollback * Comfort with regulated environments: health data, ACPR, ISO 27001, HDS * Automation & AI appetite: uses AI tools smartly to accelerate their own delivery, with an instinct for what should be automated or delegated to AI rather than repeated Must-have - Behavioral / soft skills: * Ownership & autonomy: drives topics forward without hand-holding, including when they cross into someone else's perimeter * Written communication: Alan is written-first; decisions get argued in public documents and challenged by people outside your team * Pragmatic judgment: balances "perfect" vs. "good enough", decides with incomplete information * Documentation culture: reduces bus factor through clear documentation and knowledge sharing Nice-to-have skills / Bonus points if you have: * Experience with an internal provisioning or IdP-driven automation platform (Okta Workflows, Rippling, Workato, or something you built yourself) * Kandji or another MDM at scale * Cloudflare Zero Trust / WARP, Datadog * Audit remediation experience (ISO 27001, SOC 2, HDS) * Multi-country rollouts, or IT integration after an acquisition * Having mentored, coached or led a (small) crew * Health or healthtech ecosystem familiarity Languages: Fluent English & Professional French ## Description * Own and extend automations on Alan Home, our internal provisioning engine * Maintain, extend and improve helpdesk automation, SaaS provisioning flows, and onboarding/offboarding pipelines * Own the meeting room AV and room-booking platform as a product, replicable across offices, * Own the IT side of the employee lifecycle (onboarding, offboarding, mobility between jobs and countries) across Google Workspace, SSO/SAML and our SaaS ecosystem. * Grow our role-based access model: extend it to more tools and refine the permission groups, so access is granted by role rather than case by case * Make employee lifecycle events reliable, fast and auditable end-to-end * Own access reviews and least-privilege models; produce and maintain the evidence our auditors rely on * Own SaaS procurement and license management: vendor relationships, renewals, and cost optimization across our stack Endpoint & SaaS security * Own the Mac fleet in Kandji: enrollment at scale, role-based blueprints, fleet compliance * Cloudflare WARP, SaaS security controls * Maintain and strengthen our ISO 27001 certification and drive ACPR and pentest remediation on the endpoint and platform scope, * Acquire technical knowledge on Alan's platform: Alan Home, Google Workspace/SSO, Kandji, Cloudflare WARP * Take one project end-to-end and ship a first increment * Join the IT oncall team as technical escalation First 6 months * Own a workstream end-to-end, with an IT Ops teammate working alongside you * Deliver one automation or hardening initiative end-to-end * Take up documentation and automation on your scope and reduce significantly the bus factor on it * Mentor IT teammates on your core expertise First year * Deliver measurable IT toil reduction on your scope * Set the technical standards on your domain: how we build, document and review it * Build strong cross-functional partnerships (Engineering, Security, Workplace, Clinic, People, Audit) * Contribute to hiring and onboarding new teammates 3 years * Lead major projects end-to-end across several communities * Be the reference the team relies on across at least two domains * Mentor the IT team and beyond, and scale IT without a linear increase in manual work As the community grows, there is room to take on more responsibility: leading a crew, owning cross-community projects, mentoring, hiring. ## Related Videos - [Shipping Faster with Less: Render on Cloud Hosting, AI Workloads, and the Future of DevOps](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1894-shipping-faster-with-less-render-on-cloud-hosting-ai-workloads-and-the-future-of-devops) - [HR ROBO SAPIENS: Decoding AI Agents and Workflow Automation for Modern Recruitment](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1470-hr-robo-sapiens-decoding-ai-agents-and-workflow-automation-for-modern-recruitment) - [Inside Bitpanda's Tech Stack: Scaling a European Fintech Leader - Markus Dorner](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1979-inside-bitpanda-s-tech-stack-scaling-a-european-fintech-leader-markus-dorner) - [Create a Programmatic SEO Project Using Next.js and Static Site Generation](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/449-create-a-programmatic-seo-project-using-next-js-and-static-site-generation) - [Get Your Stack Together: Building the Right Recruiting Tech](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/1295-get-your-stack-together-building-the-right-recruiting-tech) - [Unlocking the potential of Digital & IT at Vodafone](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/602-unlocking-the-potential-of-digital-it-at-vodafone) ## Related Articles - [Fully Remote Software Engineer Jobs](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/447-fully-remote-software-engineer-jobs) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Top Characteristics of a Software Engineer](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/166-top-characteristics-of-a-software-engineer) - [Why Upskilling And Reskilling is Important For Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/428-why-upskilling-and-reskilling-is-important-for-developers) - [The 12 Best Jobs for Software Engineers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/401-the-12-best-jobs-for-software-engineers)