Canva

Design

EnterpriseSecurityTeamLead

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia FULL TIME Remote Friendly
The Brief

“Enterprise Security - Team Lead at Canva. Skills: Security strategy, Team management, Threat modeling. Manage security engineers. Own internal security strategy”

Industry & Context.

Design
Problems you'll solve

Pragmatic tradeoffs

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Ability to build a strategy around access, Prior experience managing and growing high performing teams, Proven ability to threat model complex systems, Proven experience working with external stakeholder teams, Good understanding of internal IT environments, Ability to run large, complex projects

Nice to Have

Proficiency in one or more programming/scripting languages, Familiarity with infrastructure as code, Experience working with identity management technologies, Understanding of common compliance frameworks

What You'll Do.

Manage security engineers

Own internal security strategy

Coach and develop engineers

Own team's ways of work

Work collaboratively with partner groups

Drive adoption of systems internally

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Partnering with other teams on security strategy; Partner with teams like IT, Sales and Customer Support; Working collaboratively with other partner groups; Partner with IT and Procurement

Process & Methodology

Sprint planning, Stand-ups, Retrospectives, Set definition of done, Track metrics, Deliver comms

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