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Principal Security Engineer

Contract Type

Permanent

Location

Victoria, Melbourne

Industry

IT

Specialisation

Security

Salary

AU$180000 - AU$200000 per annum + super

Contact Name

Riki Blok

Contact Email

riki@talenza.com.au

Date published

04-02-2026

Job Reference

BBBH20182

Description

About the company

  • Financial services business in a high growth phase
  • Broad responsibility across full cyber environment
  • About to begin DevSecOps journey


About the role
This is a senior hands-on individual contributor role focused on security engineering across the whole environment. Their tooling is best in breed - Crowdstrike, Okta, Netskope, Splunk, Extra Hop amongst others, effectively the tools are in place but need to be fine tuned and automated. They are early in their DevSecOps journey and will be looking to you to help build this out over the next 6-12 months, this is the type of role and environment where you can own technical decisions on new tooling.

In the pipeline for tooling is their Splunk SIEM, you will be front and centre on assessing the existing SIEM and seeing if a change is appropriate.

If you are looking for a role with highly technical peers, with huge freedom and ownership, this is the role for you.

Culture / Benefits

  • Nimble security function where you can make a big difference
  • Work across a broad range of technology
  • Further develop your skills in automation and DevSecOps


Duties

  • Security engineering across their environment
  • Assist on incidents escalated from Crowstrike
  • Implement DevSecOps over the next 6-12 months
  • Technical leadership and vision for the next few years


Skills and experience

  • To be successful in this role, you will need to have experience as a Senior or Principal Security Engineer
  • Strong skills across a range of security technologies
  • Skills and experience with automation - ideally Powershell, Terraform or python
  • Knowledge and skills in Azure DevOps - highly regarded
  • Excellent Communication skills - written and verbal
  • Industry certifications are highly regarded

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