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The Senior Security Engineer guides other security engineers and leads in the development and integration of security products and services in the Woolworths environment with a strong focus on Cloud. This role is responsible for leading engineering initiatives which improve the posture of our cloud & on-prem environment, which includes ensuring our capabilities are available for easy consumption, constantly improved to mitigate against the evolving threat landscape and ensuring these capabilities ad-here to our cyber security standards.
Job Responsibility
Strategic Engineering Leadership: Lead the technical design and architectural integration of security products (SIEM, EDR, CNAPP, CASB, etc.), ensuring they align with the long-term Cyber Security roadmap and Woolworths standards
Mentorship & Technical Guidance: Providing architectural guardrails and acting as a sounding board, allowing Engineers the autonomy to lead their own assigned projects while ensuring alignment with the broader strategy
Security Architecture Collaboration: Liaise between the Security Architecture team and the Engineering team, translating high-level designs into executable engineering work packages
Advanced Problem Solving: Serve as the final escalation point for the most complex 3rd level technical issues, conducting root-cause analysis and driving vendor relationships to resolve critical product defects
Standardization & Governance: Define and govern the 'Gold Standard' for security controls across Cloud and On-Prem environments, ensuring automation and GitOps workflows follow best practices
Capability Evaluation: Lead Proof of Concepts (PoC) and technical assessments for emerging technologies, making authoritative recommendations on tool selection and business fit
Continuous Posture Improvement: Proactively identify gaps in the security environment and initiate engineering projects to mitigate emerging threats, rather than solely reacting to incidents
Stakeholder Management: Effectively communicate technical risks and project statuses to the Product Manager and broader
Requirements
Architectural Proficiency: Expert-level knowledge of security tool integration (SIEM, EDR, CNAPP, Vulnerability Management) and the ability to align these tools with enterprise-wide security architecture
Security Governance & Standards: Deep understanding of industry frameworks (NIST, ISO27001) and the ability to define 'Gold Standard' configurations for a large-scale enterprise
6+ years’ experience in an Engineering role is essential
Previous experience working with native security capability within cloud platforms like: Azure, GCP & AWS
Exposure in system administration with operating systems common to enterprise (Windows, Linux & MAC)
Broad knowledge and confidence of a number of security applications and tools
Exposure to SIEM technologies and respective query language
Experience in the various stages of Incident Response
Strong understanding of information security
Strong understanding of networking and protocols
What we offer
Team Discounts - Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work
Wellness - Access to Sonder. Sonder provides free confidential 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological or physical support for team members and their families