IT Lead

Aspire is the leading all-in-one finance operating system for growing businesses in APAC. We are on a mission to reinvent business finance for a new generation of entrepreneurs and business owners, empowering startups and MSME to realise their full potential.

Founded in 2018, Aspire has raised over USD 300M+ across equity and debt from world-class investors. In 2023, we successfully closed an oversubscribed USD 100 million Series C equity round led by Sequoia Capital and Lightspeed Ventures with participation of Tencent, Paypal Ventures, LGT Capital Partners, Picus Capital and MassMutual Ventures. To power our solutions, we have partnered with some of the best companies in the world such as Visa and Wise and helped more than 15,000 businesses using our suite of products.

In 2022, we were awarded Best Employer of the Year and Payments Tech of the Year by Asia Fintech Awards, ranked #1 on LinkedIn's 2022 Top Startups list and were listed on YC Top Companies 2022. In 2023, we ranked Top 10 on The Straits Times Fastest-Growing Companies.

You will be amazed by the energy and experience of our team. We are a team of ex-entrepreneurs, ex-founders, and high-achievers with international backgrounds. We team up to reach the highest standards 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:

• Good to very good written and spoken English communication skills
• Minimum of 4 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

Please note: by submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read and understood Aspire's Data Protection Policy for Employees, Freelancers, Contractors and Job Applicants (the " Policy") , and consent to the collection, use and disclosure of your personal data by Aspire for the purposes set out in the Policy. You may withdraw consent for such collection, use and disclosure, and make an access or correction request in respect of your personal data, in accordance with the Policy by emailing people@aspireapp.com .