Security Platform Lead — Enterprise, Multi-Cloud (Hybrid)

NZ Transport Agency Waka Kotahi; Auckland; On-site; NZD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Five weeks’ annual leave

Income protection and critical illness

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development opportunities

Job summary

NZ Transport Agency | Waka Kotahi (NZTA) seeks an experienced technology and security leader to head Security platforms and capabilities. You will own the strategic roadmaps, lifecycle management and continuous improvement of NZTA’s security platforms, combining deep technical credibility with strategic influence.

As Platform Lead, Security, you will drive platform automation, align with enterprise architecture, and provide leadership across vendors in a multi-cloud environment, ensuring

Qualifications

• Significant experience owning enterprise platforms in large, hybrid cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Own the strategic and technical roadmaps and lifecycle of NZTA’s security platforms.
• Keep security tooling reliable, scalable and fit for purpose.
• Align platforms with NZTA's digital strategy and enterprise architecture.
• Provide technical leadership across vendors and managed services in a multi-cloud environment.
• Make platform investment decisions on cost, risk and value.
• Use automation and AI to reduce manual effort across our platforms.
• Deliver platform improvements iteratively using agile ways of working.

Job description

NZ Transport Agency | Waka Kotahi (NZTA) seeks an experienced technology and security leader to head Security platforms and capabilities. You will own the strategic roadmaps, lifecycle management and continuous improvement of NZTA’s security platforms, combining deep technical credibility with strategic influence.

As Platform Lead, Security, you will drive platform automation, align with enterprise architecture, and provide leadership across vendors in a multi-cloud environment, ensuring