Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Lookahead; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 144,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work

Support from experienced engineers

Job summary

Lookahead in Sydney is seeking a senior cybersecurity engineer to own security strategy and governance, working hybrid with two days in the office. You will assess the current environment, drive a practical security roadmap, and partner with experienced engineers to deliver tangible improvements.

This role emphasizes executive communication, risk oversight, and delivering results with real impact for a 300-person business, including vulnerability management, identity and access controls, and

Qualifications

• Broad cybersecurity expertise across infrastructure, networks, vulnerabilities, and governance.
• Proven track record building or improving security programmes and roadmaps.
• Strong executive communication and board-level reporting experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and pragmatic delivery focus.

Responsibilities

• Assessing the organisation's current cybersecurity posture across two technology environments currently being consolidated into one, understanding risk across infrastructure, legacy systems, and controls during a period of real technical change.
• Building a cybersecurity strategy and roadmap appropriately scaled for a 300 people business: practical and achievable, not enterprise-framework overkill.
• Owning vulnerability management and penetration testing coordination end-to-end: scoping, interpreting findings, driving remediation, and validating that issues are genuinely resolved.
• Improving internal security practices across identity and access management, endpoints, network controls and general hygiene.
• Contributing to (not solely owning) the security of the organisation's customer-facing systems, working closely with experienced engineering leads.
• Rebuilding board-level security reporting: translating technical risk into something leadership can actually use to make decisions.
• Driving execution and accountability across technical and non-technical stakeholders. This is as much about delivery and coordination as it is about technical depth.

Skills

Security governance

Risk assessment

Executive communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Ownership & pragmatism

Job description

Senior Cybersecurity Engineer | Sydney (Hybrid)

A well-established Sydney-based business is looking to bring in a senior, hands-on cybersecurity professional to take ownership of its security strategy, governance and execution. This is a newly prioritised hire with genuine executive backing, not a role sitting on the backburner.

This isn't a narrow technical specialist position, and it isn't a compliance-only or purely advisory role either. We're looking for someone who can assess the current environment, build a right-sized security strategy, and then actually drive it to completion, working alongside existing strong technical engineers rather than building everything from scratch alone.

What you'll be doing:

• Assessing the organisation's current cybersecurity posture across two technology environments currently being consolidated into one, understanding risk across infrastructure, legacy systems, and controls during a period of real technical change.
• Building a cybersecurity strategy and roadmap appropriately scaled for a 300 people business: practical and achievable, not enterprise-framework overkill.
• Owning vulnerability management and penetration testing coordination end-to-end: scoping, interpreting findings, driving remediation, and validating that issues are genuinely resolved.
• Improving internal security practices across identity and access management, endpoints, network controls and general hygiene.
• Contributing to (not solely owning) the security of the organisation's customer-facing systems, working closely with experienced engineering leads.
• Rebuilding board-level security reporting: translating technical risk into something leadership can actually use to make decisions.
• Driving execution and accountability across technical and non-technical stakeholders. This is as much about delivery and coordination as it is about technical depth.

What we're looking for:

• Broad, credible cybersecurity expertise across infrastructure, networks, vulnerabilities, controls and governance. Technically credible, though you don't need to personally implement every solution.
• A track record of building or improving security programmes, developing roadmaps, and coordinating cross-functional delivery. This is the single biggest differentiator for this role.
• Strong executive communication skills, comfortable producing reports and contributing to senior leadership and board-level discussions.
• Excellent stakeholder management and emotional intelligence, able to influence technical and non-technical people without relying on formal authority.
• High ownership and commercial pragmatism, focused on continuous, realistic improvement rather than theoretical perfection.

What's on offer:

• Salary up to $160k + super depending on experience
• Hybrid working: 2 days per week in the Sydney office
• Support from experienced technical engineers already embedded in the business