Senior Cyber Security Engineer

Company Description

Hi. We’re OFX, a leading financial operations company providing businesses and accounting firms with real-time financial control and visibility to do business anywhere in the world. With an innovative platform and 24/7 human support, OFX automates and simplifies doing business across borders, reducing risk and eliminating routine operational tasks. Offering global business accounts, payments to 180 countries in 30+ currencies and currency risk management solutions to simplify global payments. OFX further enhances business operations by providing corporate cards with spend management, bill payments, vendor management, and integrations with popular accounting and HRIS software, to help achieve better business solutions so accounting firms and businesses thrive.

Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with offices globally, in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Ireland, New Zealand, Singapore and Hong Kong. OFX has been a trusted innovator in global money movement for over 25 years.

Job Description

Purpose of your role

As a Senior Cyber Security Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, implementing, and maintaining security solutions across a complex cloud-based infrastructure hosted on AWS, Azure and GCP. In a lean, high-impact team, you will work across cloud security engineering, network architecture, and security tool management to protect the company’s global financial platforms and services. This role requires strong hands-on experience, proactive risk mitigation, and close collaboration with technology engineering teams.

What you do

Key responsibilities include, but are not limited to;

• Design, implement, and manage security controls across cloud environments like AWS, Azure and GCP, with primary focus on AWS
• Configure and maintain security tools such as SIEM, EDR, vulnerability management, CASB, DLP, and CSPM platforms.
• Collaborate on threat modelling and risk assessments for cloud-based and hybrid workloads.
• Drive continuous security improvements and automation through Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Analyse security alerts, logs, and events; support incident response and forensic investigations.
• Review and contribute to security architecture, network segmentation, and secure system design.
• Define and enforce IAM best practices, including privilege management and role-based access controls.
• Partner with other teams and team members to meet regulatory and audit requirements (e.g., ISO 27001).
• Mentor junior team members and provide subject matter expertise to cross-functional teams.
• Participate on resolution of security incidents.
• Contribute to the overall upliftment of Cyber Security posture of the company.

Qualifications

What you bring

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Systems, or a related field.
• Security certifications such as CISSP, CCSP, OSCP, GCP Professional Cloud Security Engineer, or AWS Security Specialty preferred.
• 10+ years of experience in cybersecurity, with a strong focus on cloud security engineering.

Knowledge, skills, experience

• Deep understanding of AWS, and some knowledge of Azure and GCP security services, IAM, encryption, logging, and networking.
• Proficiency in configuring and integrating security tools such as SIEMs, EDR, CSPM, DLP and cloud-native security tools.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code and CI/CD security integration.
•  Extensive experience in TCP/IP networking, DNS, firewalls, VPNs, proxies, and secure connectivity models.
• Familiarity with modern security frameworks and threat models (MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, CIS Controls).
• Hands-on experience with incident response, security investigations, and log analysis.
• Ability to assess security architectures and advise on secure cloud-native designs.
• Scripting and automation skills are a strong plus.
• Excellent communication skills with the ability to explain complex security topics to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Additional Information

What it's like working at OFX

We’re OFXers because we want to make a difference. We see challenges as opportunities and we’re not afraid to roll up our sleeves to get stuff done. We’re committed to making things easier for our clients, pushing boundaries and continuing to move with the times so that we can continue to inspire confidence every day and through every transaction.

We operate as one team, cross-functionally and globally, to drive outcomes that deliver excellence for our customers. We're curious self-starters who love learning and sharing our knowledge with others. We embrace change and use our initiative and resilience to overcome challenges.

• Always keep learning. We offer a wide range of learning and career development opportunities to help every OFXer build their capacity and career, with leadership training, secondments, internal mobility and access to a large library of online learning.
• Make a difference. Through our Make a Difference program, we encourage OFXers to give back to causes and communities that are important to them. We celebrate this with an annual volunteer day, which OFXers can use together or individually, as well as matched giving and the opportunity to nominate charity of choice every quarter.
• Reward and recognition. We recognise a job well done. OFXers are encouraged to celebrate their peers’ effort, technical expertise or support through a range of global and regional channels and awards, including quarterly and annual awards, milestones and shout outs.
• Showing our social side. Our Good Vibes employee-led committees around the globe organize events to help keep our employees engaged inside and outside the office. Whether it’s a wellbeing activity, end of year celebration, or a monthly team get-together, our team wants you to feel welcome!
• Benefits that mean something. We offer a range of fantastic benefits, including health insurance, primary and secondary gender neutral carer parental leave (16 weeks) or birthday leave, you'll feel well-supported at OFX.
• A great work environment. Enjoy work-life balance and flexibility with our hybrid work model, in an inclusive, diverse and non-hierarchal culture.

At OFX, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible workplace where we value, respect, and encourage our people to be their authentic selves. With an employee base as diverse as the clients we serve, we know that fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to our continued success. If you require accommodation for any portion of the recruitment and hiring process, please email us at people.culture@ofx.com. We encourage you to apply if this role aligns with your career aspirations.

At OFX, we are committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible workplace where we value, respect, and encourage our people to be their authentic selves. With an employee base as diverse as the clients we serve, we know that fostering an inclusive workplace is fundamental to our continued success. If you require accommodation for any portion of the recruitment and hiring process, please email us at people.culture@ofx.com.

We encourage you to apply if this role aligns with your career aspirations.