Senior Cyber Security Engineer: Zero Trust & Cloud Defense

Marketplace; Wellington; Hybrid; NZD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

New Zealand Customs Service in Wellington seeks a Senior Security Engineer to lead cyber operations and engineering, designing and implementing security controls across the technology environment. You will mentor engineers and drive security-by-design, Zero Trust, and continuous assurance.

You will lead vulnerability management, incident response, and assurance activities, reporting risks and trends to leadership and ensuring NZISM compliance.

Qualifications

• At least five years’ experience in cyber security engineering, cyber operations or related disciplines.
• Experience implementing and operating enterprise security controls in complex tech environments.
• Strong knowledge of NZISM, Essential Eight and MITRE ATT&CK frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior technical leadership across cyber security engineering, operational security and assurance activities.
• Implement and improve security controls across cloud, infrastructure, network, identity, application and end-user computing environments.
• Drive Zero Trust, security-by-design and continuous assurance practices; lead vulnerability management and incident response.

Skills

Cyber security engineering

Security operations

Microsoft security technologies

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Sentinel

Entra ID

Azure security

Vulnerability management

Incident response

Zero Trust

MITRE ATT&CK

NZISM

Essential Eight

Security governance

Education

Tertiary qualification

Tools

Microsoft Defender

Microsoft Sentinel

Entra ID

Microsoft 365 Security

Azure security services

Job description

New Zealand Customs Service in Wellington seeks a Senior Security Engineer to lead cyber operations and engineering, designing and implementing security controls across the technology environment. You will mentor engineers and drive security-by-design, Zero Trust, and continuous assurance.

You will lead vulnerability management, incident response, and assurance activities, reporting risks and trends to leadership and ensuring NZISM compliance.