Senior Security Engineer

Employment Type

Permanent

Closing Date

27 Mar 2025 11:59pm

Job Title

Senior Security Engineer

Job Summary

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will take the lead on several security platform implementations – this will involve creating the design documentation, making changes, engaging stakeholders, and owning the platform through deployment and into operation.

Job Description

Our Defence Team

Being part of our Defence business means you'll be working to provide secure network solutions for our defence customer segment. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will take the lead on several security platform implementations – this will involve creating the design documentation, making changes, engaging stakeholders, and owning the platform through deployment and into operation.

Please note all candidates must be Australian Citizens and hold a minimum of NV1 AGSVA security clearance to be considered. This role will require you to hold and maintain an NV2 AGSVA security clearance.

Here’s what you can expect from us:

•Flexible working. Wherever you live, choose where, when, and how you work so you can be at your best.

• There when life happens. From Gender Affirmation Leave to Telstra’s Additional Leave Day, we give you time to spend away from work when you need it most.

•Pay for performance. We recognise outstanding contributions through our generous incentive programs.

• Parental Leave. A gender-equal policy for parents so you can choose how and when you take your leave (16 weeks full pay or 32 weeks half pay). Receive superannuation contributions on paid and unpaid parental leave.

• Unlimited learning. Level up your credentials with access to 17,000 learning programs. Learn ‘on the job’ and achieve university credits toward degrees and Master's programs.

• Global presence. With a global presence across 22 countries,  there are many opportunities to work where we do business.

• Extra perks. Receive 30% off Telstra products and services, plus unlock exclusive discounts from over 240 brands and partners.

What you’ll do:

• Deliver outcomes to a high standard by actively collaborating in security engineering or network design, change implementation, and support of platform, applications, services, and product issues. This includes operation and support of a complex integration layer deployment.

• Significantly contribute to the design, build, installation, integration, and maintenance of multiple complex cyber security technologies, platforms, applications, services, products, and/or systems.

• Assess the capability of vendor solutions and offerings to meet business requirements. Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills in making recommendations for vendor solutions.

• Take an active role in managing vendor performance and technology delivery to ensure that agreed technical functionality, time, and cost outcomes are met.

• Document your work to ensure that business continuity, security, and operational activity can seamlessly be supported and maintained by others.

• Actively engage in enhancing and improving CI/CD capabilities (testing, automation) to reduce cycle time while retaining quality.

• Define and operationalise, in collaboration with key stakeholders, appropriate security controls in network architecture and technologies to protect Telstra and customer information, systems, and network assets.

• Provide input into the security strategy, standards, and frameworks to ensure security controls and hygiene are built into network engineering and technology designs and processes.

• Authentically engage with the business and leverage customer feedback to initiate continuous improvements in security engineering and technology designs that are fit for purpose and meet customer requirements.

• Foster a culture of continuous improvement and coaching by modelling Telstra and best practice security engineering standards and actively develop less experienced engineers through coaching, mentoring, and collaboration.

• Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills in promoting security awareness and/or network or technology issues to Leaders/stakeholders.

• Translate customer needs and requirements into realisable and commercially viable secure products, services, or systems and/or networks infrastructure and platforms.

About you:

• Hold a minimum of NV1 AGSVA security clearance.

• At least 5 years of relevant recent experience in the role.

• High levels of experience administering and implementing software running on Red Hat and Windows operating systems.

• Specific experience administering IT Security tools within the areas of SIEM, SOAR, EDR

• Experience mentoring Junior Engineers.

• Knowledge of IT Security threats, vulnerabilities, and attack methods.

• Knowledge of Australian Government IT Security policies (e.g., Information Security Manual) – highly desirable.

• Relevant Security certification such as CISSP, CISM, etc.

If you are passionate about succeeding as part of an agile and experienced team, we welcome you to apply!