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Senior Security Automation Engineer

Primary office location
Sydney
Date
02-Oct-2024
Permanent - Full time, Mid-level
Job category
Technology - Engineering, Technology - Security
Join our diverse and global Cyber Threat and Incident Response team as a Senior Security Automation Engineer. In this crucial role, you will be instrumental in enhancing our team’s capabilities to detect, investigate and contain cyber threats. 
At Macquarie, our advantage is bringing together diverse people and empowering them to shape all kinds of possibilities. We are a global financial services group operating in 34 markets and with 55 years of unbroken profitability. You’ll be part of a friendly and supportive team where everyone - no matter what role - contributes ideas and drives outcomes.

What role will you play?

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The mission of our team is to enable Macquarie to operate safely within a challenging digital environment by detecting, investigating and responding to advanced cyber threats. The functional teams are composed of cyber threat defence analysts, cyber threat intelligence analysts, detection engineers and incident responders among others.

As a Senior Security Automation Engineer, you will play a critical role in understanding how our teams work and translating that into automation and orchestration workflows, providing our teams with deeper understanding of the threat landscape.

What you offer

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  • 5+ years of python development and system integration experience, preferably supporting cyber security or security adjacent teams. SaaS integration experience is a plus
  • Experience with working with global agile teams and leading junior engineers
  • Experience with fully automated build processes and CI/CD workflows
  • Passionate about solving cyber security challenges through automation
  • Experience working directly with customers to understand how they operate and translate manual work processes into automated workflows.
  • Excellent listening and influencing skills, and the ability to develop and maintain good relationships between a complex set of global stakeholders
  • Any Security Orchestration and Automated Response (SOAR) platform experience, with a preference for Swimlane or Splunk SOAR
  • Exposure to Amazon AWS and Kubernetes will be preferred.
We love hearing from anyone inspired to build a better future with us, if you're excited about the role or working at Macquarie we encourage you to apply.

About Technology

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Technology enables every aspect of our business, for our people, our customers and our communities. Bring your unique perspective and join a global team who is passionate about accelerating the digital enterprise, connecting people and data, building platforms and applications and designing tomorrow’s technology solutions.

Benefits

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Macquarie employees can access a wide range of benefits which, depending on eligibility criteria, include: 
  • Hybrid and flexible working arrangements 
  • One wellbeing leave day per year and up to five additional days leave based on length of service
  • Up to 20 weeks paid parental leave as well as benefits to support you as you transition to life as a working parent 
  • Paid volunteer leave and donation matching 
  • Range of benefits to support your physical, psychological and financial wellbeing 
  • Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities

Our commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion

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We are committed to providing a working environment that embraces diversity, equity, and inclusion. We encourage people from all backgrounds to apply for a role regardless of their identity, including gender, race, ethnicity, cultural identity, nationality, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, intersex status, marital or family status, neurodiversity, religion or belief, disabilities, or socio-economic background.
If you require adjustments to your working arrangements or the recruitment process, please let us know when applying.