Security Platform Engineer (RunZero) - Sydney | 6Mo Contract

Ayan Infotech; Sydney; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

AYAN InfoTech in Sydney is seeking a hands-on Security Platform Engineer to deliver a new security product across the Client environment, with a focus on runZero integration and secure configurations.

You will collaborate with architects, vendors and cyber teams to deploy agents, manage firewall requirements, and implement controls such as SSO and MFA, taking the product to BAU for ongoing operations.

Qualifications

• Hands-on cyber security platform engineering experience is required.
• Experience with runZero or a comparable asset discovery product is preferred.
• Ability to work with architects, vendors and cyber teams to implement controls.

Responsibilities

• Platform engineering and configuration
• Design and implement the runZero platform operating model, including environments, access, roles, boundaries, sites, asset groups, tags and naming standards
• Configure discovery coverage for corporate, data centre, cloud, remote access, network, IoT and relevant OT environments
• Design active and passive discovery patterns for different network zones and risk profiles
• Establish scanning standards, approval gates, maintenance windows and exception processes
• Configure asset classification, ownership, business context, criticality and lifecycle attributes
• Define standards for handling transient, unmanaged and decommissioned assets
• Develop reusable configuration patterns across sites and environments
• Maintain separation between production, testing and experimental changes
• Integrations and data engineering
• Integrate runZero with CMDB, ServiceNow, Tenable, EDR, NAC, DNS/DHCP, cloud platforms, identity systems, SIEM, SOAR
• Implement API-based ingestion and egress with least privilege access
• Automate asset reconciliation, deduplication, enrichment and ownership mapping
• Ensure downstream systems receive useful, well-scoped data
• Define integration contracts, schemas, mappings and error handling
• Detect integration drift, stale credentials and data-volume changes
• Automation and workflow engineering
• Automate onboarding, configuration validation, scan scheduling and asset tagging
• Automate routing of exposures to owners across security, infra, network and cloud
• Implement event-driven workflows for new assets, exposed services and changes
• Design idempotent automation to avoid duplicates and drift
• Use APIs, webhooks and scripts to reduce manual admin and improve response times
• Introduce approval controls for high-impact actions
• Lifecycle handling for retired, renamed or moved assets

Job description

AYAN InfoTech in Sydney is seeking a hands-on Security Platform Engineer to deliver a new security product across the Client environment, with a focus on runZero integration and secure configurations.

You will collaborate with architects, vendors and cyber teams to deploy agents, manage firewall requirements, and implement controls such as SSO and MFA, taking the product to BAU for ongoing operations.