Senior Security Engineer - GCP

Xero; Johannesburg; On-site; ZAR 720,000 - 960,000; Full time

Job summary

A dynamic company is looking for a Senior Security Engineer to enhance their Google Cloud Platform security measures. Responsibilities include uplifting security standards and collaborating with teams to implement remediation tasks. Enjoy flexible working, generous paid leave, and numerous employee benefits in an innovative environment.

Benefits

Generous paid leave

Employee Assistance Program for mental health care

Cash referral bonuses

26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers

Employee Share Plan

Flexible working arrangements

Career development opportunities

Qualifications

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform and IAM.
• Interest in growing security skills.
• Experience coding in Python or other scripting languages.

Responsibilities

• Uplift the GCP environment to align with Xero's security standards.
• Collaborate on implementation of remediation tasks.
• Prepare & test implementation plans to minimize service disruption.

Skills

Google Cloud Platform

Security

Python

Agile Practices

Team Collaboration

Job description

Our Purpose

At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.

As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll be hands-on solving problems at scale in our GCP environment. You’ll become deeply familiar with the capabilities of our vendors to build and support modern and adaptable security services that will delight our customers. We run mission-critical infrastructure, and you’ll build resilient and scalable systems. Automation will be the standard for you, and you’ll seek new and interesting ways to reduce our operational overheads. Most importantly, you’ll be a team player and get to work with an awesome group of engineers in an amazing and unique working environment.

What you'll do

• Uplift of Syft’s Google Cloud Platform environment to align with Xero’s security standards
• Input into design and planning for remediation tasks
• Prepare & test implementation plans to help ensure minimisation of service disruption
• Collaborate on implementation of remediation tasks
• Work with other Xero & Syft teams to ensure buy in from stakeholders

What you'll bring with you

• Google Cloud Platform experience and knowledge with IAM
• Compute, Networking, Cloud Storage, Databases amongst other areas
• Security experience and interest in growing your security skills
• A willingness to support and understand the different solutions we use to support our platform systems
• Experience writing code in Python or other scripting languages
• Be a proactive champion of agile and delivery practices who coaches and develops others in this space in order to ensure a consistent approach to ways of working
• A basic understanding of network and system administration security
• A strong drive to work in a team-oriented and collaborative environment
• A passion for delivering high quality products to your customers

Why Xero?

Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, cash referral bonuses, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices with snacks, coffee, and spaces for you to take a break, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.