(Remote) Senior Cloud Security Engineer

Employment Hero is an Australian tech unicorn - valued at over $1.25 billion. Our world-class software is the easiest way for small and medium-sized businesses to manage HR, payroll, employee engagement, and benefits. We’ve grown 100% year-on-year since our inception in 2014, and now service over 90,000 businesses and 850,000+ active users globally. We have exciting growth plans for 2023 and beyond, powered by our mission of making employment easier and more valuable for everyone.

We take a Remote First approach with our team. Employment Hero can hire across the world, so long as candidates have eligible working rights and are in a suitable timezone to their colleagues. If you’ve got the skills for the role and the passion for our mission then we want to hear from you!
 

About the Senior Cloud Security Engineer Job:

We’re thrilled to be looking for a new Cloud Security Engineer to work on large scale high impact challenges. This role is key in enabling us to move towards a distributed Service Oriented Architecture while maintaining a strong security posture.

This is a senior role, where you'll also work as a partner to cross-functional teams, guiding those squads to build solutions with security at the forefront. As you can tell this is a pivotal role in our growth journey, needing a skilled, technically minded, passionate and critical thinking technologist.

True success in this role, is to be able to work with multiple cross-functional technical teams, including our Infrastructure/Platform and Software Engineering squads, quickly gaining their confidence and providing your expertise in designing, creating and orchestrating features and solutions that help maintain our reputation for delivering software that is reliable, trusted and secure.

Some of the specific responsibilities you'll have:

• Assess and recommend improvements to our security posture
• Analyze system traffic flows to identify opportunities for additional security hardening
• Drive security best practices across functional areas
• Collaborate, coach, and mentor Engineering team members
• Provide advice to the Engineering team on effective remediations for vulnerabilities
• Collaborate with the Security team to ensure system and data protection is fully compliant
• Enhance automated testing of security capabilities in our CI/CD pipelines
• Oversee and review third-party componentry and integrations in use
• Author support documentation for business cases
• Improve software inventory management processes