Senior Security Engineer (AWS & SOC)

The Company

We are partnering with one of Australia's most established fintechs, with headquarters in Australia and a global reach. Two years into a significant cyber and technology transformation, cloud security is at the heart of what comes next.

This role

This is a senior individual contributor role inside a lean, high-trust security team. You'll be the 2ic and report directly to the Head of Security, mentor two junior engineers, and be the technical anchor for cloud security decisions across the business. You'll be shaping how a cloud-first fintech secures itself at scale.

Around 50% will be hands-on cloud security engineering - AWS is the primary environment, with Azure covering one business unit and M365 across the organisation. You'll own our cloud security posture, support IAM and incident response, and be a key player in our XDR consolidation.

The responsibilities

• Own the cloud security posture across AWS (primary) and M365 - hands-on configuration, workload protection, and exposure management.
• Act as cyber incident response lead - coordinating and managing escalated P1/P2 cybersecurity incidents while junior engineers handle L1/L2 triage.
• Drive the consolidation of security tooling, including an XDR platform migration currently underway.
• Collaborate with architects and tech leads to embed security into solution design, secure coding standards, and new service rollouts.
• Support the shift to DevSecOps across engineering teams and review AI use cases against security and governance standards.
• Facilitate compliance by providing technical evidence and working alongside the external auditor.

Experience Required

• 5+ years in cloud / security engineering with hands-on AWS security.
• Proven ability to configure and implement in production environments - not just advise
• Experience leading or coordinating cybersecurity incident response.
• Knowledge of security architecture and secure design knowledge across cloud environments
• Familiarity with identity and access management, including privileged identity concepts

Why join?

This is a genuinely exciting time to step into this role. The transformation program is live, the roadmap is funded, and there's real appetite from leadership to do this properly.

• Real ownership of cloud security architecture and uplift - not a support function
• Work on emerging technology including AI security governance and XDR automation
• Collaborative, agile culture with quarterly planning and direct access to leadership
• Clear pathway as the team grows, with planned specialist hires in identity and risk
• Established fintech with the stability of a listed company and the pace of a scaleup
• Sydney CBD location with genuine flexibility (3 days in office, 2 from home)
• Up to $180K base + 10% STI + Super

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