A venture scaling arm of a major bank in Sydney is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to join their team. Initially a 6 month contract highly likely to extend for the right person.

As a Security Engineer, you’ll take ownership of security infrastructure from end to end in a smaller start up environment.

Responsibilities:

• Build understanding of cyber security risk and threat modelling fundamentals.
• Design and implement secure authentication and authorization systems
• Develop and deploy high quality security platforms with comprehensive test coverage without supervision.
  Develop understanding of systems, technologies and processes, identifying opportunities for continuous improvement.
• Conduct regular penetration testing and vulnerability assessments across
• Develop and enforce secure coding standards and best practices in collaboration with DevOps and Engineering.
• Work closely with DevOps to secure AWS and/or Azure environments (IAM, VPCs, security groups, etc.).
• Monitor, detect, and respond to security incidents and breaches.
• Manage and improve threat detection, prevention systems, and log analysis tools (e.g., SIEM, IDS/IPS).
• Stay current with emerging threats, vulnerabilities, and compliance requirements (e.g., SOC 2, ISO 27001).

Key Skills / Experience

• 5+ years of experience in cybersecurity, information security, or related roles.
• Broad range of security concepts, technology and domain knowledge, to effectively develop and deliver solutions
• Experience with penetration testing - desirabe
• Understanding of security in cloud environments— AWS and/or Azure.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and automation (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.) is a plus.Familiarity with common compliance and security frameworks.

If interested please respond ASAP with your latest resume