Enterprise Cyber Security Design & Engineering Leader

Vector NZ; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible working arrangements

Market-competitive remuneration

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

Vector NZ is evolving its cyber security to a proactive, automation-first model. The Cyber Security Engineering & Design Manager will lead enterprise security architecture across IT, OT, IoT and AI, shaping the design authority, standards and reusable patterns that drive faster, safer delivery.

The role focuses on embedding secure-by-design across software, infrastructure and operations, leveraging monitoring, vulnerabilities and incidents to improve controls and scale security engineering

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading enterprise cyber security architecture and engineering in a complex organisation.
• Deep expertise in cyber architecture, secure design and engineering, with cloud, OT and AI security knowledge.
• Experience establishing architecture governance, standards and decision frameworks across large tech environments.
• Strong delivery of secure-by-design practices and modern software/infrastructure delivery.

Responsibilities

• Lead the cyber operating-model shift to scalable security engineering.
• Own cyber security design authority across IT, OT, IoT and AI.
• Develop and deliver the cyber engineering and architecture roadmap aligned with business growth and regulatory obligations.
• Embed secure-by-design practices with automation, CI/CD and infrastructure-as-code.
• Lead and develop the Cyber Security Engineering & Design team.

Skills

Enterprise cyber security design

Security architecture leadership

CI/CD & infrastructure as code

Threat modelling

Stakeholder management

Job description

Vector NZ is evolving its cyber security to a proactive, automation-first model. The Cyber Security Engineering & Design Manager will lead enterprise security architecture across IT, OT, IoT and AI, shaping the design authority, standards and reusable patterns that drive faster, safer delivery.

The role focuses on embedding secure-by-design across software, infrastructure and operations, leveraging monitoring, vulnerabilities and incidents to improve controls and scale security engineering