Staff Security Engineer: Enterprise Security & AI Leader

Commonwealth Bank; Sydney; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Commonwealth Bank in Sydney seeks a Staff Security Engineer who shapes security engineering and architecture across Group Security and diverse functions. You will be a highly influential individual contributor who engages with General Managers and executive leaders to drive practical security outcomes.

You will lead complex programs of work, provide expert advice at senior forums, and translate risk into scalable, enterprise-grade security decisions.

Qualifications

• Experience leading enterprise security programs.
• Strong track record influencing senior forums.
• Expertise in secure software/infrastructure delivery.

Responsibilities

• Set security engineering direction across Group functions.
• Lead complex programs of work with engineering, risk, and business peers.
• Provide authoritative security advice at senior business and technology forums.
• Influence senior leaders through risk-informed recommendations.
• Lead architecture reviews, threat assessments and security control decisions.
• Address AI security and emerging technology threats.
• Provide leadership and mentorship to security engineers.
• Guide enterprise security solutions including EDR, SIEM and observability.
• Develop reusable patterns and guardrails for security at scale.

Skills

Security architecture

Threat modelling

Secure by Design

DevSecOps

AI security

Executive communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

EDR

SIEM

Cloud security tooling

Job description

Commonwealth Bank in Sydney seeks a Staff Security Engineer who shapes security engineering and architecture across Group Security and diverse functions. You will be a highly influential individual contributor who engages with General Managers and executive leaders to drive practical security outcomes.

You will lead complex programs of work, provide expert advice at senior forums, and translate risk into scalable, enterprise-grade security decisions.