Security Architect (8-12 Years)

About Zeller
At Zeller, we’re champions for businesses of all sizes, and proud to be a fast-growing Australian scale-up taking on the ambitious goal of reimagining business banking and payments.
We believe in a level playing field, where all businesses benefit from access to smarter payments and financial services solutions that accelerate their cash flow, help them get paid faster, and give them a better understanding of their finances. So we’re hard at work building the tools to make it happen.
Zeller is growing fast, backed by leading VCs, and brings together a global team of passionate payment and tech industry professionals. With an exciting roadmap of innovative new products under development, we are building a high performing team to take on the outdated banking solutions. If you are passionate about innovation, thrive in fast-paced environments, embrace a challenge, hate bureaucracy, and can’t think of anything more exciting than disrupting the status-quo, then read on to learn more. 
About the role
We are seeking an experienced and innovative Security Architect with a strong focus on both Corporate Security and Application Security strategies, particularly within AWS environments. As a key individual contributor, you will play a pivotal role in enhancing and maintaining the security of our AWS infrastructure and services, while ensuring that our corporate and application security align with industry best practices. Your responsibilities will include developing and implementing comprehensive security strategies that protect the organisation’s IT infrastructure, designing and deploying secure solutions for applications, leading the technical direction for AWS security, and managing critical aspects such as network security, data protection, content delivery optimization, vulnerability management, configuration management, traffic control, and encryption/certificate management. Automation will be a central aspect of your engineering work as you advocate for and implement best practices. You will be responsible for leading the technical direction in cloud security and driving the implementation of security measures to protect our AWS environment.

Your responsibilities will include

• Guidance and Mentorship: Provide overarching guidance to security engineers, helping to define, outline, and implement best practices, industry-standard processes, and security controls across all aspects of the organisation’s IT environment. Mentor and support security engineers in adopting the latest security trends, tools, and methodologies.
• Tool Selection and Optimisation: Lead the evaluation, selection, and optimisation of security tools and technologies, ensuring they align with business goals and provide comprehensive protection across cloud, application, and network security.
• Security Strategy Alignment: Collaborate with business stakeholders to align security strategies with organisational objectives, ensuring security initiatives support overall business growth and resilience.
• Process Design and Implementation: Develop and enforce security policies, standards, and procedures that integrate seamlessly with the work of the security engineers, covering areas such as Google Workspace, AWS security, SSO solutions, Zscaler configurations, and email security.
• Comprehensive Security Monitoring: Design and implement a robust observability strategy for the entire security landscape, ensuring real-time visibility into potential threats and the effectiveness of security measures across all platforms.
• Continuous Improvement: Drive continuous improvement in security processes by staying informed on the latest industry trends, security threats, and compliance requirements, and proactively integrating these insights into the organisation’s security practices.
• Incident Response and Risk Management: Oversee the development and refinement of incident response plans, risk management strategies, and threat mitigation techniques, ensuring readiness to respond to and recover from security incidents.
• Governance: Ensure that security governance frameworks are in place and adhered to, balancing the need for strong security controls with business agility and operational efficiency.
• Business Communication: Regularly communicate security strategies, status, and risks to key stakeholders, ensuring transparency and alignment between security initiatives and business goals.

What we are looking for

• Extensive experience as a Security Architect or Cloud Security Architect with a strong focus on AWS environments and security practices.
• Proven ability to mentor security engineers, guiding them in best practices, industry standards, and the latest security tools and methodologies.
• Expertise in evaluating, selecting, and optimising security tools to align with business goals and ensure comprehensive protection.
• Experience in automation, reporting, and full lifecycle management of security tools and frameworks.
• Skill in aligning security strategies with business objectives, ensuring that security measures support organisational growth and resilience.
• Proficiency in developing and enforcing security policies, standards, and procedures that integrate seamlessly with existing operations.
• Experience in designing observability strategies for security and driving continuous improvement by incorporating the latest security trends and threats.
• Strong capability in overseeing incident response and risk management processes to ensure effective handling of security incidents.
• Knowledge of security governance frameworks and the ability to balance robust controls with business efficiency.
• Excellent communication skills to clearly convey security strategies, risks, and statuses to stakeholders.
• Experience in designing and implementing multi-cloud and multi-region security architectures.

Bonus Points

• Experience in working within a high-growth environment.
• Security professional certifications encouraged ( CISSP, CEH, OSCP etc.)  
• Experience in other cloud platforms (Azure, Google)
• Experience in payments
• Experience with PCI compliant environments (PCI-DSS, etc)

Like the rest of our team, you will benefit from
Competitive remunerationA balanced, progressive, and supportive work environment;Excellent parental leave and other leave entitlements;Fully remote role Annual get together with the team Endless learning and development opportunities;Plenty of remote friendly fun and social opportunities - we love to come together as a team;An ability to influence and shape the future of Zeller as our company scales both domestically and globally;Being part of one of Australia’s most exciting scale-ups.