Principal Security Engineer

Foodstuffs North Island; Manurewa; Hybrid; NZD 160,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free carparking

Southern cross health insurance

Onsite café with subsidised meals

Flexible working options

Learning and development programs

Job summary

Foodstuffs North Island is seeking a Principal Security Engineer to shape how security is designed, engineered and delivered across the organisation. This senior role moves between architecture and hands-on engineering, defining standards and guiding complex decisions with engineers, architects and product teams.

You’ll bring 10+ years of security experience, deep expertise in security engineering and architecture, and strong automation skills (Python/Bash/PowerShell).

Qualifications

• 10+ years’ security experience in enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise in security engineering and architecture across identity, cloud, network, data protection and endpoints.
• Multi-cloud security across Azure, AWS and GCP with secure configurations.

Responsibilities

• Define and shape security engineering at enterprise scale.
• Move between architecture and hands-on engineering; set standards and reusable patterns.
• Partner with engineers, architects and product teams to solve complex security problems.

Skills

Security engineering

Architecture

Multi-cloud security

SIEM/SOAR

Threat detection

Regulatory frameworks (MITRE ATT&CK, N

Tools

Git-based delivery

Python/Bash/PowerShell

Job description

Ko wai mātou – About us

Kia ora. We’re Foodies. You know New World, PAK’nSAVE and Four Square right? That’s us!

With 300+ stores and over 27,000 Foodies across Te Ika-a-Maui, our North Island Co-op has the privilege of helping New Zealanders get more out of life. Locally owned, we reflect the communities we serve, and we celebrate our people - our taonga, every day for being uniquely them.

Our Support Centre is 1,000+ people strong, which includes 300+ IT employees, who all play a vital role in ensuring the cogs of our Co-op stay turning and our systems stay ‘byte’-sized and ‘bug’-free.”.

Te Tūranga – About the role

We’re looking for an experienced Principal Security Engineer to help shape how security is designed, engineered and delivered across our organisation.

This is a senior technical leadership role for someone who can move confidently between architecture and hands-on engineering. You’ll help shape security engineering at enterprise scale, definingwork engineering standards and reusable patterns, guiding complex technical decisions, and partnering with engineers, architects and product teams to solve some of our most challenging security problems.

What we offer

We’re committed to providing awesome experiences for our people, including offering a range of benefits

• Free carparking - we’ve got over 1,000 carparks including EV plugs
• Southern cross health insurance
• Onsite café with subsidised meals, mini mart, 5% discount at our retail stores
• Flexible working options, a day off on your birthday, long service leave
• Inhouse learning and development programmes and courses, flu vaccinations, and social network groups (we call them Tribes).

About you

• 10+ years’ security experience , with significant experience at Lead or Principal level in complex enterprise environments.
• Deep expertise across security engineering and architecture , including identity, cloud/platform, network and endpoint security, data protection, vulnerability management and secrets.
• Strong multi‑cloud security experience across Azure, AWS and GCP, with hands‑on capability in secure configuration, policy‑as‑code and pipeline security.
• Strong detection and response engineering experience, including SIEM/SOAR, threat detection, monitoring and security automation.
• Practical knowledge of security frameworks and regulated environments, including MITRE ATT&CK, NIST, ISO 27001, CIS Controls and PCI.
• Strong automation and engineering capability, using technologies such as Python, Bash or PowerShell and modern Git‑based delivery practices.
• Proven ability to set technical direction and influence major security decisions, while remaining pragmatic and hands‑on.
• A strong communicator and trusted technical leader, comfortable influencing across engineering, architecture, product and senior stakeholders.
• Experience supporting business‑critical, 24x7 services and providing senior technical leadership when it matters most.

CISSP, CCSP, SC-100, GDSA or equivalent certifications are desirable, but deep technical capability and experience matter most.

Experience awesome. Achieve awesome. Be awesomely you.

We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.

We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.

If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to [e-mail]. Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.

$160,000 - $170,000 a year