Senior Application Security Engineer — Automation & DevOps

Westpac; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Westpac, a leading Australian bank, is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for its Application Security team. You will engineer, integrate and operate security capabilities across Westpac’s software development environments to deliver scalable security solutions embedded into development and DevOps platforms.

You will guide and enable engineering teams to build secure software with speed, embedding controls early in the lifecycle and automating vulnerability management at scale.

Qualifications

• Experience with security platforms such as 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.

Responsibilities

• Engineering, operating and maintaining application security platforms and tooling.
• Implementing automated code analysis, software composition analysis, secrets scanning and software supply-chain security capabilities.
• Integrating security controls into developer environments, GitHub repositories and CI/CD pipelines.
• Embedding automated security controls early in the software development lifecycle.
• Automating vulnerability identification, remediation and prevention at scale.
• Partnering with engineering and platform teams to deliver repeatable security outcomes.
• Providing practical application security guidance to developers and engineering teams.
• Supporting education and enablement initiatives that uplift secure development capability.

Skills

Snyk

GitHub Advanced Security

Wiz

GitHub

Python

DevOps

CI/CD pipelines

Application security

Security automation

Vulnerability management

Shift-left security

Job description

Westpac, a leading Australian bank, is seeking a Senior Security Engineer for its Application Security team. You will engineer, integrate and operate security capabilities across Westpac’s software development environments to deliver scalable security solutions embedded into development and DevOps platforms.

You will guide and enable engineering teams to build secure software with speed, embedding controls early in the lifecycle and automating vulnerability management at scale.