Lead Application Security & Secure SDLC Architect

Tower Insurance

Auckland

On-site

NZD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

19 hours ago
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Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave (26 wks)
Birthday day off
Annual leave 22 days + 2
Wellness leave
Career progression
Flexible working
Office in Auckland
Product discounts
Life insurance

Job summary

Tower Insurance is seeking an experienced application security professional to shape security from the start. You will lead secure-by-design practices across software design, build and release, targeting applications, APIs and AI workloads.

With 5+ years in application security, you will partner with engineering to embed security into delivery, mitigate vulnerabilities and drive secure coding practices across teams in a dynamic insurance environment in Auckland.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years hands-on application security experience.
  • Experience across threat modelling, API security and secure CI/CD.

Responsibilities

  • Lead Tower’s Secure Software Development Lifecycle, embedding secure-by-design practices across how software is designed, built and released.
  • Identify and validate security risks across applications, APIs and AI workloads, bringing an adversarial mindset to strengthen resilience.
  • Partner closely with developers and engineering teams to embed practical security into delivery and build trusted, secure solutions.

Skills

Application security
Threat modelling
API security
Secure CI/CD
SAST
DAST
SCA
Secret scanning
OWASP Top 10
GenAI/LLM security
MITRE ATLAS
Security automation
Azure/Entra ID
Terraform
OSCP
OSWE
GWAPT
CSSLP

Tools

Azure/Entra ID
Terraform

Job description

Tower Insurance is seeking an experienced application security professional to shape security from the start. You will lead secure-by-design practices across software design, build and release, targeting applications, APIs and AI workloads.

With 5+ years in application security, you will partner with engineering to embed security into delivery, mitigate vulnerabilities and drive secure coding practices across teams in a dynamic insurance environment in Auckland.

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