Senior Cybersecurity Engineer

Datacom; Wellington; On-site; NZD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid parental leave

DataCare EAP

Learning & development

Access to learning platforms

Recognition programmes

Employee discounts

Meaningful work

Job summary

Datacom in New Zealand seeks a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer to own critical platforms within CDOC, drive security improvements, and shape defense against today’s threats. You’ll work across tools and environments ensuring confidentiality, integrity, and availability of clients’ systems.

The role emphasizes incident response leadership, threat intelligence use, and collaboration with cross-functional teams.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of experience in a technical cybersecurity focused role
• Self-motivated and proactive with the ability to manage workload
• Advanced understanding of attacker tools, techniques, and procedures
• Customer-centric approach ensuring consistency in service delivery
• Strong knowledge of networks, firewalls, proxies, and OS command-line tools
• Familiarity with threat intelligence frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and STIX/TAXII
• Experience with SIEM, XDR, endpoint protection, identity security and secure access solutions

Responsibilities

• Configure and update hardware and software to maintain secure, reliable environments
• Establish and manage user accounts and access controls
• Oversee and conduct backup and recovery tasks
• Implement operational and technical security controls in line with organisational policies
• Monitor threat intelligence feeds to identify emerging threats and vulnerabilities
• Lead and coordinate incident response efforts across cross-functional teams

Job description

About Us

At Datacom, we combine technology, expertise, and talented people to help organisations thrive in a rapidly changing world. As one of Australasia's leading technology providers, we work with customers across industries to solve real-world problems and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Description

At Datacom, we combine technology, expertise, and talented people to help organisations thrive in a rapidly changing world. As one of Australasia's leading technology providers, we work with customers across industries to solve real-world problems and deliver meaningful outcomes.

Whether we're supporting governments, enterprise organisations, or growing businesses, we're committed to creating meaningful outcomes for our customers, communities, and each other.

About The Role

As a Senior Cybersecurity Engineer, you'll be at the heart of our CDOC operations, taking ownership of critical platforms, driving security improvements, and helping shape how we defend against today's most sophisticated threats. You'll work across a diverse range of tools and environments, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of our clients' most critical systems, while continuously raising the bar across our security operations and leading by example.

What You'll Do

• Configure and update hardware and software to maintain secure, reliable environments
• Establish and manage user accounts and access controls
• Oversee and conduct backup and recovery tasks
• Implement operational and technical security controls in line with organisational policies
• Monitor and analyse open-source and proprietary threat intelligence feeds to identify emerging threats and vulnerabilities
• Conduct in-depth research on threat actors, their TTPs (Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures), and their motives
• Lead and coordinate incident response efforts, working closely with cross-functional teams to contain and mitigate the impact of security breaches

What You'll Bring

• 3-5 years of experience in a technical cybersecurity focused role – Experience in Cyber Operations preferred.
• Self-motivated and proactive with the ability to manage your own workload
• Advanced understanding of the tools, techniques, and procedures modern attackers use to compromise organisations
• A customer-centric approach ensuring consistency in service delivery
• Strong knowledge of networks, firewalls, proxies, and operating system command-line tools
• Knowledge of system/server diagnostic tools and fault identification techniques
• Knowledge of systems engineering theories, concepts, and methods
• Understanding of IT user security policies including account creation, password rules, and access control
• Familiarity with threat intelligence frameworks such asMITRE ATT&CKand standards likeSTIX/TAXII
• Experience working with leading security technologies and platforms is highly desirable, including SIEM, XDR, endpoint protection, identity security, and secure access solutions from major enterprise security vendors such as Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Zscaler, Splunk and similar technologies.
• Exposure to working on Intelligence platforms will be highly regarded

Culture And Benefits

Join a team where you'll be supported to grow your career, prioritise your wellbeing, and make a genuine impact. From industry-leading learning and development opportunities to parental leave, wellbeing support, and employee benefits, we're committed to helping our people thrive both professionally and personally

We're passionate about creating a workplace where people feel supported, empowered, and inspired to do their best work. Whether you're developing new skills, tackling complex challenges, or collaborating with some of the best minds in the industry, you'll be part of a team that values curiosity, innovation, inclusion, and making a genuine difference.

Why you will love working here

• Paid parental leave
• 24/7 Employee Assistance Programme (DataCare)
• Ongoing learning, certifications, and career development opportunities
• Access to industry-leading learning platforms and future skills training
• Recognition programmes that celebrate great work
• Great employee discounts and financial wellbeing benefits
• Meaningful work that makes a real impact

Eligibility criteria and conditions may apply to some benefits.