Platform Security Engineer: Kubernetes, SIEM & IAM

NEP Group, Inc.; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary continuance insurance

NEP Days – additional 5 days of leave

NEP Travel benefits & discounts

Discounts through Employment Hero Work

Employee Assistance Program

Job summary

NEP Australia is seeking a Security Engineer – NEP Platform to secure and optimise the infrastructure supporting NEP’s media and broadcast services. You will implement robust platform security measures, integrate security into CI/CD, and automate controls across Kubernetes-based environments while ensuring reliability and observability in hybrid infrastructure.

Reporting to the Team Lead - Infrastructure & Security, you will collaborate with NEP's global IT Security team, participate in audits

Qualifications

• Proven experience in platform security, DevSecOps, or SRE roles within containerized/Kubernetes environments.
• Expertise in designing and managing SIEM solutions for real-time threat detection and incident response.
• Hands-on experience implementing microsegmentation in Kubernetes or hybrid cloud environments to secure workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement SIEM solutions to monitor, detect, and respond to security threats across platform infrastructure.
• Develop and enforce microsegmentation policies to enhance workload isolation and reduce attack surfaces in Kubernetes and hybrid environments.
• Integrate security controls into CI/CD pipelines, container build processes, and infrastructure-as-code workflows using tools like Terraform.
• Automate vulnerability and compliance scanning for infrastructure
• Implement Kubernetes-native security mechanisms, including RBAC, OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, and network policies, to secure containerized workloads.
• Manage secret management systems (e.g., 1Password) within platform automation workflows.
• Enhance platform observability by integrating logging, tracing, metrics, and alerting tools to support security monitoring and incident response.
• Collaborate with NEP IT Security and TSC SME group on IT Security to align platform infrastructure with global security policies and compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO 27001, SOC2).
• Lead remediation efforts for platform infrastructure following security audits and penetration tests, ensuring timely and effective resolution.

Skills

Platform security

DevSecOps

Kubernetes security

SIEM

Microsegmentation

CI/CD security

Automation scripting

Linux

IAM

Audit/compliance

Tools

Terraform

OPA/Gatekeeper

Kyverno

RBAC

1Password

Job description

NEP Australia is seeking a Security Engineer – NEP Platform to secure and optimise the infrastructure supporting NEP’s media and broadcast services. You will implement robust platform security measures, integrate security into CI/CD, and automate controls across Kubernetes-based environments while ensuring reliability and observability in hybrid infrastructure.

Reporting to the Team Lead - Infrastructure & Security, you will collaborate with NEP's global IT Security team, participate in audits