Hybrid Senior Application Security Engineer

Westpac Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Banking product discounts

Flexible work arrangements

Learning and development opportunities

Volunteer opportunities

Job summary

Westpac Group is seeking a Senior Security Engineer within our Application Security team. You’ll engineer, integrate and operate application security capabilities across Westpac’s software development environments, delivering scalable automated security solutions embedded into development and DevOps platforms.

You will partner with engineering teams to embed secure DevOps practices, provide practical security guidance, and help uplift secure development capabilities across the Group while

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Snyk, GitHub Advanced Security and Wiz.
• Strong working knowledge of GitHub and source-code security integrations.
• Engineering and scripting experience using Python.
• Strong DevOps experience, including integrating security controls into CI/CD pipelines and developer workflows.
• Experience across application security, security automation and vulnerability management.
• Understanding of secure software development and shift-left security practices.
• Security solution engineering and design experience.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, operate and maintain application security platforms and tooling.
• Implement automated code analysis, software composition analysis, secrets scanning and supply-chain security capabilities.
• Integrate security controls into developer environments, GitHub repos and CI/CD pipelines.
• Embed automated security controls early in the SDLC.
• Automate vulnerability identification, remediation and prevention at scale.
• Partner with engineering and platform teams to deliver repeatable security outcomes.
• Provide practical application security guidance to developers and engineering teams.
• Support education and enablement initiatives that uplift secure development capability.

Skills

Snyk

GitHub Advanced Security

Wiz

Python

CI/CD security

Vulnerability management

Tools

GitHub

Job description

Westpac Group is seeking a Senior Security Engineer within our Application Security team. You’ll engineer, integrate and operate application security capabilities across Westpac’s software development environments, delivering scalable automated security solutions embedded into development and DevOps platforms.

You will partner with engineering teams to embed secure DevOps practices, provide practical security guidance, and help uplift secure development capabilities across the Group while