Senior Security Engineer - Privileged Access Management

Telstra Corporation; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Telstra Corporation in Melbourne is seeking a Senior Security Engineer to lead Privileged Access Management across on-prem, cloud, and hybrid environments. You will shape PAM strategy, set direction, and drive secure-by-design patterns through automation and strong technical leadership.

You’ll design scalable PAM solutions using CyberArk or BeyondTrust, improve logging and access reviews, mentor teams, and collaborate with risk, IT, and security functions to reduce risk and enable rapid,

Qualifications

• Deep experience in Privileged Access Management, secrets management or adjacent security engineering domains.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust, least privilege and modern cloud security patterns.
• Hands-on familiarity with PAM platforms such as CyberArk or BeyondTrust.

Responsibilities

• Lead the PAM domain strategy, target-state architecture and control roadmap across on-prem, cloud, SaaS and hybrid environments.
• Design secure, scalable privileged access and secrets management patterns to support DevSecOps and automation.
• Drive a high-automation PAM operating model for onboarding, access requests/approvals, vaulting, rotation, session recording, and offboarding via APIs and IaC.
• Influence engineering, architecture, operations, risk and vendor teams to embed PAM controls early.
• Improve detection, auditability and assurance through logging, evidence, access reviews and automated reporting.
• Mentor others and uplift technical capability to foster a culture of shared security ownership.

Skills

Privileged Access Management

Secrets management

Identity security

Security engineering

Automation

Leadership

Tools

CyberArk

BeyondTrust

Cloud-native PAM

Job description

Employment Type Permanent Closing Date 5 Oct 2026 11:59pm

Senior Security Engineer - Privileged Access Management

Job Summary Job Description The Role You'll work on meaningful security challenges that protect critical systems and improve how teams safely access privileged environments. You'll have the opportunity to shape standards, influence technical direction and make measurable improvements to security outcomes at scale. As a Senior Security Engineer, you will shape how privileged access is designed, governed and secured across our complex enterprise and cloud environments. This is a strategic engineering role for someone who can set direction, influence architecture and reduce risk through secure-by-design patterns, automation and strong technical leadership.

What you’ll do

• Lead the PAM domain strategy, target-state architecture and control roadmap across on-prem, cloud, SaaS and hybrid environments.
• Design secure, scalable privileged access and secrets management patterns that support modern engineering, DevSecOps and automation practices.
• Drive a high-automation PAM operating model for onboarding, access requests/approvals, vaulting, rotation, session recording, and offboarding via APIs, workflows, and infrastructure-as-code.
• Influence engineering, architecture, operations, risk and vendor teams to embed PAM controls early and effectively.
• Improve detection, auditability and assurance through quality logging, reusable evidence, access reviews and automated reporting.
• Mentor others, uplift technical capability and help build a culture of shared security ownership.

What you’ll bring

• Deep experience in Privileged Access Management, secrets management, identity security or adjacent security engineering domains.
• Strong understanding of Zero Trust, least privilege, service accounts, privileged identities and modern cloud security patterns.
• Hands-on familiarity with PAM platforms such as CyberArk, BeyondTrust or cloud-native privileged access capabilities.
• Experience integrating security tooling with identity providers, MFA, SIEM/SOAR, ticketing, monitoring, APIs or infrastructure-as-code.
• The ability to translate complex technical risk into clear recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders.

We're an iconic Aussie brand with a global footprint. From our earliest days in the Postmaster General's Office to the Australian icon we are today, the heart of Telstra has never changed. We've always been committed to being a great place to work as we make the world a better place too. Working at Telstra, we all have a why. Whether it's endless career opportunities, an amazing work-life balance or being able to make a difference, we all know why we're motivated to be our best here. Our people find purpose and pride in being part of Telstra, because we support the things that matter most.

In a business as big and diverse as ours, there's a huge breadth of career paths available. Uncover opportunities, broaden your experience, and discover the many areas of our organization there is to explore. > Explore our teams https://www.telstra.com.au/careers/our-teams