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Security Platform Engineer

WhizdomSydney, Sydney🇦🇺AustraliaPosted 20 Sept 2026

Quick Overview

Seniority
Mid Senior
Employment type
Full Time
Work mode
Hybrid
Location
Sydney, Sydney, Australia
DNSIoT

Job Description

Security Engineer, runZero Platform

Location: Sydney

Contract: 6 Months + Highly Likely Extensions

About the Opportunity

A leading technology consultancy is seeking an experienced Security Engineer to design, implement and operate an enterprise asset-discovery capability using runZero.

This is a hands on engineering role combining platform configuration, security automation, systems integration and site reliability engineering. You will help establish a scalable operating model that delivers accurate asset visibility across corporate, data centre, cloud, remote access, network, IoT and relevant operational technology environments.

Key Responsibilities
  • Design and implement the runZero operating model, including environments, access controls, roles, sites, asset groups, tags and naming standards.
  • Configure discovery coverage across corporate, cloud, data centre, remote access, network, IoT and relevant OT environments.
  • Develop active scanning, passive discovery and integration patterns suited to different network zones and operational risk profiles.
  • Establish appropriate scanning standards, approval controls, maintenance windows and exception processes.
  • Configure asset classification, ownership, business context, criticality and lifecycle information.
  • Develop reusable configuration patterns and maintain separation between production, testing and experimental changes.
  • Integrate runZero with enterprise platforms such as CMDB, ServiceNow, Tenable, EDR, NAC, DNS/DHCP, cloud services, identity systems, SIEM and SOAR.
  • Implement secure API based data ingestion and egress using service identities and least privilege access.
  • Automate asset reconciliation, deduplication, enrichment, ownership mapping and data quality validation.
  • Define integration contracts, schemas, field mappings, error handling, retry behaviour and support expectations.
  • Build automated workflows for newly discovered assets, exposed services, control gaps, unauthorised devices and material changes.
  • Use APIs, webhooks, scripts and workflow platforms to streamline administration and improve response times.
  • Automate scan scheduling, configuration validation, asset tagging, reporting and lifecycle management.
  • Design safe, repeatable automation that avoids duplicate records, tickets and configuration drift.
  • Apply version control, peer review, automated testing, release controls and rollback procedures to platform changes.
  • Establish service indicators, dashboards and alerts covering discovery coverage, data freshness, integration health, scanning and workflow reliability.
  • Develop operational runbooks and support backup, recovery, disaster recovery and business continuity planning.
  • Implement role based access, privileged access controls, administrative separation and auditable change history.
  • Support architecture, security, privacy, risk and control assurance reviews.
Required Skills and Experience
  • Strong experience engineering and operating enterprise security or asset discovery platforms.
  • Practical expertise with runZero or a comparable asset discovery and attack surface visibility platform.
  • Strong knowledge of active scanning, passive discovery and network zone risk management.
  • Experience integrating security platforms with CMDB, ServiceNow, vulnerability management, endpoint, network, cloud, identity and SIEM/SOAR technologies.
  • Demonstrated API, webhook, scripting and workflow automation capability.
  • Experience with asset reconciliation, deduplication, enrichment and data quality controls.
  • Sound understanding of least privilege access, service identities, secrets management and role based access control.
  • Experience applying infrastructure as code or configuration as code practices, version control, testing and controlled releases.
  • Strong operational knowledge across monitoring, alerting, incident runbooks, recovery, performance and capacity management.
Desirable Experience
  • Experience supporting asset discovery across cloud, IoT or operational technology environments.
  • Knowledge of ServiceNow, Tenable, EDR, NAC, DNS/DHCP, SIEM and SOAR integrations.
  • Experience designing event driven and idempotent automation.
  • Familiarity with security architecture reviews, privacy assessments, risk assessments and regulatory control requirements.
What's on Offer
  • A technically challenging role with significant ownership of an enterprise security platform.
  • The opportunity to build scalable discovery, integration and automation capabilities.
  • Broad collaboration across security, infrastructure, network, cloud and application teams.
  • A role spanning engineering delivery, automation, operational resilience and security governance.

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