Security Engineer - Cyber Defence

As New Zealand's largest telecommunications and digital services company, Spark’s purpose is to help all of New Zealand win big in a digital world. We provide mobile, broadband, and digital services to millions of New Zealanders and thousands of New Zealand businesses.

We operate in an exciting and constantly evolving industry, where the pace of change brings new and unique challenges every day, so we operate using Agile ways of working to allow us to meet the fast-changing needs of our customers. Agile replaces the traditional hierarchical organisational structure to produce a transparent, collaborative environment with highly productive teams who are empowered to deliver better outcomes for our customers, communities, and all of New Zealand.

We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Security Engineer with expertise in application security and cloud security to join our team. In this role, you will work closely with DevOps teams, cloud teams, and other Cyber Security teams to streamline application and cloud security operations. You will be responsible for managing integrations, writing procedures, and ensuring that security practices are integrated into the software development lifecycle (SDLC) while continuously optimizing our cloud security posture for threat detection, prevention, and response

Day to day you will be involved in:

• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in application security for enterprise projects during development phases to work with devops team to integrate appsec tool into projects
  
• Design, Implement and lead the operational enhancement of Cloud Detection and Response tools ensuring alignment with organisational security objectives
• Design and implement appsec and cloud sec tool BAU workflows in collaboration with relevant teams
• Develop and implement custom use cases for cloud threat detection tailored to organisational risks and cloud environments and work closely with the Threat Hunting team to ensure cloud attack simulations are properly integrated with corresponding detection policies
• Collaborate with cloud teams/devops teams and wider Cyber Security Teams to enforce application and security policies at the organizational level and create custom threat detection policies where necessary
• Ensure seamless integration of application security tools and cloud posture tools with SIEM and ticketing systems.
• Partner with wider Cyber Security Teams, DevOps teams and Architects to perform threat modelling, identify vulnerabilities, and work on technical remediation strategies

At Spark, we are constantly looking for ways to build a more inclusive culture. Our vision is for diversity and inclusion to be “how things are done at Spark”, embedded into our day-to-day activities, standards, and business practices. We want you to feel totally comfortable bringing your whole self to work regardless of your gender, ethnicity, orientation, age, or ability.

Sustainability is a key focus for us. We are dedicated to supporting Aotearoa New Zealand’s recovery and economic transformation. The principle of equity is at the very heart of our approach, and we remain committed to working in partnership to make a positive contribution to digital equity in line with our focus on Diversity and Inclusion.

Our people matter and we make sure we look after them. As a valued employee of Spark, we’ve got our people covered with a range of leading benefits including:

• Wellbeing - Comprehensive medical insurance, life and income protection. Access to wellbeing coaches, EAP and in-house Specialist Clinical support through our leading Mahi Tahi Wellness programme.

• Hybrid ways of working - for most teams at Spark this means being in the office for 4 days a week, and 1 day being flexible.

• Leave - in addition to four weeks annual leave, we offer purchased leave, enhanced parental leave support and study leave.

• Spark Credit – we provide permanent employees with $120 monthly Spark credit to use on any of our amazing products.

• Spark Share scheme – periodically we offer the opportunity to buy into our share scheme.

• Career development – access to an internal marketplace that connects employees with experiential, on the job learning across Spark.

Due to the nature and urgency of this role, we are only considering applicants that are based in New Zealand with permanent residency, citizenship, or a valid work visa (with at least 18 months remaining).