Security Operations Lead – Incident Response & Team Growth

Foodstuffs North Island; Māngere-Ōtāhuhu; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Inhouse learning and development

Flexible working options

Free carparking

Onsite café with subsidised meals

Job summary

Foodstuffs North Island is seeking an experienced Security Operations Squad Lead to oversee day-to-day security operations, incidents and threat detection, while mentoring Security Analysts and Engineers.

You will drive improvements across monitoring, incident response playbooks, and escalation processes, balancing hands-on work with leadership during high-pressure events.

Join a collaborative Tech team within our NZ Co-op and help safeguard systems across our stores and services.

Qualifications

• Significant technology experience in security operations or incident response.
• Proven leadership of security teams with technical credibility.
• Strong knowledge of incident response, alert triage, threat detection, containment and recovery.

Responsibilities

• Lead security operations, setting priorities across alert triage, investigations, incident response, vulnerabilities and escalations.
• Own major security incidents, leading investigation, containment, recovery and stakeholder communication.
• Improve detection and response capabilities, including monitoring, alert quality, playbooks and automation.
• Monitor service health, queue performance and operational readiness.
• Coach Security Analysts and Engineers, building accountability and discipline.
• Drive continuous improvement to simplify and strengthen security operations.
• Collaborate with Technology and the wider business to manage security risks and incidents.

Skills

Security operations

Leadership

Incident response

Threat detection

Stakeholder communication

Coaching

Queue health

Tools

SIEM

EDR

Case management

Job description

Foodstuffs North Island is seeking an experienced Security Operations Squad Lead to oversee day-to-day security operations, incidents and threat detection, while mentoring Security Analysts and Engineers.

You will drive improvements across monitoring, incident response playbooks, and escalation processes, balancing hands-on work with leadership during high-pressure events.

Join a collaborative Tech team within our NZ Co-op and help safeguard systems across our stores and services.