Zip Co Limited

SecurityPlatformEngineer

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
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The Brief

“Security Platform Engineer at Zip Co Limited. Skills: Security Platform Engineering, Cloud Security, Infrastructure as Code, Security Tooling, Automation. Design, build and continuously improve the security control plane that protects our cloud and endpoint environments. Embed security directly into the way we build and run systems”

What You'll Achieve.

Keep Zip’s systems, data and customers safe; Strengthen our security posture; Protection is built into the development lifecycle; Improve performance, coverage and signal quality; Ensure security scales alongside Zip’s rapidly evolving technology landscape

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

An aptitude for identifying and managing risks

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Cloud security engineering experience, Experience with AWS, Experience with Infrastructure as Code, Experience with modern security tooling such as EDR/XDR or SASE platforms, Hands on experience working with modern security tooling such as EDR or XDR platforms, SASE solutions, identity controls or device trust models, Experience building Infrastructure as Code using tools such as Terraform or CloudFormation, Ability to develop integrations and automation using APIs and scripting languages such as Python or Bash, An engineering mindset with an automation first approach to security controls, Experience improving detection workflows and tuning security tools to reduce noise and increase signal, Ability to translate security policy and risk requirements into scalable technical controls, An aptitude for identifying and managing risks

Nice to Have

Ideally within AWS environments, Level up into a Senior role

What You'll Do.

build and continuously improve the security control plane that protects our cloud and endpoint environments

Embed security directly into the way we build and run systems

Integrate security tooling

Improve detection quality

Ensure security scales alongside Zip’s rapidly evolving technology landscape

Own and operate key security platforms that protect Zip’s infrastructure and endpoints

Design and implement integrations between security tooling and cloud environments to strengthen our security posture

Embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows

Automate guardrails using Infrastructure as Code and policy as code approaches

Tune and optimise security tooling to improve performance

coverage and signal quality

Partner with DevOps and platform teams to implement secure cloud and infrastructure configurations

Define and maintain security baselines across identity

device and workload trust

Support the ongoing evolution of Zero Trust capabilities across the organisation

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Collaborating closely with platform and DevOps teams; Working closely with platform engineers and DevOps teams; Partner with DevOps and platform teams

Full Job Description

Security Platform Engineer Cloud security engineering experience with AWS, Infrastructure as Code and modern security tooling such as EDR/XDR or SASE platforms Hybrid working from our Sydney office, collaborating closely with platform and DevOps teams Opportunity to level up into a Senior role Write your story with a career at Zip Join Zip’s Technology function, responsible for building and maintaining seamless, secure and sustainable platforms that enable customers to shop with confidence and merchant partners to grow their brands. Within our Security and DevSecOps Engineering team, you will help shape the platforms and controls that keep Zip’s systems, data and customers safe. This is a hands-on engineering role where you will design, build and continuously improve the security control plane that protects our cloud and endpoint environments. Working closely with platform engineers and DevOps teams, you will embed security directly into the way we build and run systems. From automating guardrails to integrating security tooling and improving detection quality, you will help ensure security scales alongside Zip’s rapidly evolving technology landscape. What you'll Own Own and operate key security platforms that protect Zip’s infrastructure and endpoints Design and implement integrations between security tooling and cloud environments to strengthen our security posture Embed security controls into CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows so protection is built into the development lifecycle Automate guardrails using Infrastructure as Code and policy as code approaches Tune and optimise security tooling to improve performance, coverage and signal quality Partner with DevOps and platform teams to implement secure cloud and infrastructure configurations Define and maintain security baselines across identity, device and workload trust Support the ongoing evolution of Zero Trust capabilities across the organisation What you'll bring to the team Experience in cloud securit

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