Senior Platform Security Engineer – AI Cloud Infra

Firmus Technologies Pty Ltd.; Sydney; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Firmus Technologies Pty Ltd. in Sydney, Australia, is seeking a Senior Security Engineer, Platform Engineering to drive the design and implementation of platform security across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will champion security standards for the Kubernetes service, apply best practices for RBAC and network policies, and automate security across IaC pipelines. The role demands strong scripting and cloud security expertise.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field is required.
• 7+ years in Platform Security, DevSecOps or SRE with hands-on practice.
• Strong knowledge of CIS, NIST, ISO 27001, SOC 2 and OWASP Top 10.

Responsibilities

• Lead platform security efforts across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Own security standards for managed Kubernetes services.
• Apply Kubernetes security best practices and network policies.
• Implement supply chain security for Kubernetes and image signing.
• Secure IaC pipelines with automated security scanning.

Skills

Kubernetes security

RBAC & access control

IaC security scanning

Security frameworks

Scripting Bash/Python/Go

Cloud security

Education

Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field

Tools

Calico

kube-bench

Falco

Cosign

Trivy

Kyverno

Checkov

Snyk

HashiCorp Vault

Azure Key Vault

Auth0

Microsoft Entra

HashiCorp Boundary

Teleport

SSL/TLS management

Job description

Firmus Technologies Pty Ltd. in Sydney, Australia, is seeking a Senior Security Engineer, Platform Engineering to drive the design and implementation of platform security across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will champion security standards for the Kubernetes service, apply best practices for RBAC and network policies, and automate security across IaC pipelines. The role demands strong scripting and cloud security expertise.