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Senior Security Engineer - Cloud Platform

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3 hours ago
Auckland, New Zealand or Wellington, New ZealandSenior

Responsibilities

  • Design and operate identity and access controls across AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • Assess cloud services, risks, and gaps in the current IAM environment.
  • Close identity handover gaps and improve IAM, Workload Identity Federation, and self-service capabilities.
  • Establish KPI baselines and contribute to design reviews and operational improvements.
  • Develop reusable Terraform modules, policy frameworks, automation, and internal tooling for secure access patterns.
  • Lead technical design conversations, make sound engineering trade-offs, improve reliability, and mentor engineers.
  • Collaborate with security, platform, and product teams to enable secure, rapid delivery.

Requirements

  • Solid experience securing at least one public cloud environment: AWS, GCP, or Azure, with willingness to learn the others.
  • Understanding of identity and Infrastructure as Code fundamentals.
  • Experience designing and maintaining reusable Terraform modules and automation for IAM controls and policy guardrails at scale.
  • Proficiency in at least one scripting language such as Python.
  • Strong software engineering foundations and experience with modern delivery practices.
  • Ability to lead technical design discussions, make engineering trade-offs, mentor others, and improve delivery quality.
  • Collaborative approach to working across security, platform, and product teams.
  • Curiosity about AI applications and openness to exploring their use in engineering workflows.

Benefits

  • Hybrid working model based in Auckland or Wellington.
  • Flexibility to work from home with connection to modern office spaces during designated boost days.
  • Opportunity to work on high-leverage cloud platform security with global scope.
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