5 months ago
Sydney, Australia or Melbourne, AustraliaStaff+
Responsibilities
- Create and build security controls that enable Airwallex to scale securely.
- Design and deliver security improvements across applications, software, and services.
- Develop detection strategies and incident response workflows.
- Build and enhance secure systems through integration, testing, operations, and maintenance.
- Analyze endpoint, network, and cloud telemetry to identify, investigate, and mitigate threats.
- Design, implement, and maintain cybersecurity infrastructure to improve resilience.
- Investigate, contain, and respond to cybersecurity incidents.
- Assess system and network security for vulnerabilities, configuration issues, and remediation opportunities.
- Collect and analyze threat intelligence and forensic evidence.
- Conduct defensive operations, tactical forensics, and threat hunting.
- Partner with Infrastructure, Product, Engineering, and other teams to embed security into applications, software, and services.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in security engineering or incident response within a technology company.
- In-depth expertise with at least one major cloud platform.
- Strong knowledge of software development tools, infrastructure, and CI/CD tooling and pipelines.
- Comprehensive understanding of attacker tools and techniques, including their detection, prevention, and incident response investigation.
- Strong communication skills for explaining technical security and software concepts to non-technical audiences.
- Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, or a similar field is highly desired.
- Recognized cybersecurity training or certifications such as OSCP, GIAC, or CEH are highly desired.
- Experience with Splunk and other security monitoring tools, DevOps/SRE and Kubernetes, GCP or Alibaba Cloud, Okta, GSuite, cloud-based VPN services, Python, and Java/Kotlin is highly desired.
- Published cybersecurity articles, journals, or blogs are highly desired.
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About Airwallex
Airwallex builds a global payments and financial operations platform for businesses, offering payment acceptance, multi-currency accounts, FX and transfers, card issuing, treasury and spend management via APIs and web apps. It monetizes through transaction and foreign-exchange fees and related account services. Founded in Melbourne in 2015 and privately held, the company serves customers worldwide, with notable users including Brex, Canva and Qantas.