Commonwealth Bank
Financial Services
SeniorSecurityEngineer
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“Senior Security Engineer at Commonwealth Bank. Skills: Security engineering, Security architecture, Threat modelling, Devsecops. Provide security architecture guidance. Provide security design guidance”
What You'll Achieve.
Drive secure outcomes end-to-end
Industry & Context.
Problem solver
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Security engineering experience, Security design experience, Technical risk expertise, Experience in security architecture, Experience in threat modelling, Experience in secure design, Experience in large-scale environments, Experience in distributed environments, Experience influencing secure solutions, Experience delivering secure solutions, Experience in modern engineering ecosystems
Nice to Have
AWS knowledge, Azure knowledge
What You'll Do.
Provide security architecture guidance
Provide security design guidance
Ensure secure outcomes by design
Lead threat modelling
Lead security design reviews
Lead technical risk assessments
Identify mitigation strategies
Embed security into Devsecops
Embed security into CI/CD pipelines
Enable teams to build secure services
Enable teams to run secure services
Develop security patterns
Promote security patterns
Develop security guardrails
Promote security guardrails
Develop reusable controls
Promote reusable controls
Partner with engineering teams
Partner with architecture teams
Partner with product teams
Uplift security maturity
Influence design decisions
Ensure solutions align with policies
Ensure solutions align with standards
Ensure solutions align with obligations
Design control effectiveness
Ensure control effectiveness
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Engineering squads; Architecture teams; Product teams
Full Job Description
**Senior Security Engineer:** **About the role:** You are a problem solver with deep expertise in cyber security engineering, security design, and technical risk. You bring a strong ability to translate complex threats into practical, scalable security controls embedded directly into engineering delivery. At Commonwealth Bank, our Cyber Security team is one of the most advanced in Australia, operating at scale across cloud, payments, and digital banking platforms. Together, we protect the Group, its customers, and the broader community. **Your business:** Cyber Security plays a critical role in protecting the Group from evolving cyber threats by embedding security into the design, build, and operation of all technology services. This is achieved by integrating security engineering into the full software development lifecycle and aligning to Group policies, standards, and regulatory obligations. **Your team:** You will be part of the Security Engineering team, operating within a Secure by Design and Devsecops model, where security is embedded early and continuously across delivery. **The team:** * Partners closely with engineering squads, architecture, and product teams * Drives security design, threat modelling, and control implementation * Enables scalable security through patterns, guardrails, and automation * Uplifts engineering capability and security maturity across domains **Your impact & contribution:** As a Senior Security Engineer , you will operate as a hands-on security practitioner embedded within delivery domains (e.g. Retail Banking), accountable for driving secure outcomes end-to-end. **Do Work that matters:** * Provide security architecture and design guidance across the full SDLC, ensuring secure outcomes by design * Lead threat modelling, security design reviews, and technical risk assessments, identifying threats, controls, and mitigation strategies * Embed security into Devsecops and CI/CD pipelines, enabling teams to build and run secure service
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