Why this role stands out
This Principal Security Engineer role offers a fantastic opportunity to drive security strategy and automation within a dynamic environment, leveraging your expertise in DevSecOps and cloud security. You will thrive here if you have strong technical leadership skills and a passion for embedding security into development and infrastructure processes, making a significant impact on a diverse technology portfolio. Apply now to shape the future of security at Paxus Australia!
Quick overview
Job description
6-Month Contract Sydney CBD Security Engineering DevSecOps AWS Microsoft Security IaC Automation AI Security Hands-On Technical Leadership
We're seeking an experienced Principal Security Engineer to shape security strategy, drive automation and strengthen security practices across a diverse technology environment.
Working across security engineering, DevSecOps and cloud security, you'll lead security improvements, tackle vulnerability backlogs and embed security into development and infrastructure processes. You'll play a key role in converting security controls, policies and detection logic into configuration-as-code, while aligning with broader Group security standards.
Key Responsibilities- Drive security engineering roadmaps and vulnerability remediation.
- Implement DevSecOps practices, Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and security automation.
- Configure and automate Microsoft security controls, including Entra Conditional Access and Microsoft Sentinel.
- Provide technical leadership, mentorship and escalation support to security engineers.
- Proven Principal-level Security Engineering experience with strong technical leadership capabilities.
- Extensive DevSecOps, IaC and security automation experience.
- Hands-on expertise across Microsoft security technologies (Sentinel, Entra, Defender, etc) and AWS.
- Experience implementing security controls and detection logic as code.
- Strong vulnerability management and remediation skills.
This is an opportunity to join a high-impact, hands-on security team where you will have genuine ownership and influence. Rather than operating within a narrowly defined enterprise security function, you will work across a diverse portfolio and technologies, tackling a broad range of security engineering challenges.
Paxus values diversity and welcomes applications from Indigenous Australians, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people living with a disability. If you require an adjustment to the recruitment process, including the application form in an alternate format, please contact me on the above contact details.
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