Senior Engineer - Security

Create your best future and join the Digital Technology – Security Engineering team as a Senior Engineer – Security. What’s the role?

Join our frontline security team and help protect Westpac’s digital edge. In this hands-on role, you’ll monitor threats, respond to incidents, and coach developers on secure coding practices. You’ll work across engineering squads and security specialists to identify vulnerabilities, tune defences, and uplift the overall security posture of our applications and platforms.

This is a permanent, full-time role based in Sydney (Gadigal Land) or Gold Coast (Yugambeh Land), with flexible hybrid working arrangements.

What do I need?

• Experience working with edge security platforms like Cloudflare or Akamai.
• Ability to detect, assess and remediate vulnerabilities in live environments.
• Understanding of WAF/WAAP rules, threat analysis, and log monitoring.
• Strong communication skills and passion for coaching developers.
• Proficient in one or more of the following languages Swift, Kotlin, Java, C#, TypeScript
• Familiar with cloud platforms (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure) 

Why join us?

We’re obsessed with becoming our customers' #1 banking partner for life and we’re looking for people who are passionate about helping us achieve that goal. In return, we’re committed to making Westpac the best place to work in the country. Here are just a few of the ways we’re already doing that:

• Special offers on banking products and discounts from top brands, including generous employee-only mortgage rates!
• Flexible work arrangements to help you achieve a greater work/life balance, and a variety of leave options including Culture, Lifestyle and Wellbeing leave. 
• Tailored learning and development opportunities to help your grow your career within the bank. 
• Lots of opportunities to ‘give back’ to the Community by getting involved in our many volunteering initiatives

Create your future today To get started, simply click on the APPLY or APPLY NOW button
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