Cyber Resilience Operations Lead — Lifecycle Release

Defend Ltd.; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

3.5% KiwiSaver on top of base salary

Southern Cross Health Insurance

Mobile and broadband discounts

Flexible hybrid work environment

Home office setup allowance

Access to EAP services

Job summary

DEFEND provides top-tier cyber resilience by developing advanced detection engineering solutions and leveraging expert frontline defence.

This hands-on delivery role leads lifecycle initiatives to ensure customer platforms remain secure, supported, compliant, and operationally effective through upgrades, migrations, technology refreshes and lifecycle management across multiple government and enterprise customers.

Qualifications

• Experience leading security delivery projects.
• Ability to coordinate multiple initiatives with governance.
• Experience with release/change management and stakeholder engagement.
• Strong communications to translate technical concepts.

Responsibilities

• Lead security platform upgrades, migrations, deployments and lifecycle initiatives across multiple customer environments during and after business hours
• Own release management and change governance, ensuring changes are planned, tested and delivered successfully through to closeout
• Manage CAB approvals, customer testing, communications and execution activities across complex stakeholder groups
• Drive lifecycle governance, including EOL/EOS planning, platform currency, CVE remediation and technical debt reduction
• Lead compliance activities, including NZISM assessments, remediation planning and risk management
• Manage vendor engagement, licensing, procurement and commercial activities supporting lifecycle delivery
• Build trusted relationships with customers, vendors and engineering teams while leading lifecycle escalations
• Support datacentre and field delivery activities including logistics, installations and deployments

Skills

Project delivery

Security focus

Stakeholder engagement

Release management

Governance

Job description

DEFEND provides top-tier cyber resilience by developing advanced detection engineering solutions and leveraging expert frontline defence.

This hands-on delivery role leads lifecycle initiatives to ensure customer platforms remain secure, supported, compliant, and operationally effective through upgrades, migrations, technology refreshes and lifecycle management across multiple government and enterprise customers.