Lead Security Engineer

Morgan McKinley
Sydney NSW 2000

Listed 24 Sep 2026

About the job

This is an exciting opportunity to work with a public sector organisation for a Senior Security Engineer with experience working with DevOps/DevSecOps teams.

Responsibilities:

  • Develop cyber security standards to govern the implementation of systems and software.
  • Work with internal cyber teams to identify and implement capability needed to support DevSecOps pipelines such as policy as code, continuous compliance, integrated risk process, dynamic evidence collection and reporting.
  • Conducting threat modelling exercises to understand a products threat landscape, processing this information into relevant DevSecOps security mitigations.
  • Prioritising and managing Cyber risk, providing teams with actionable recommendations for mitigating and minimising threats in their environment.
  • Perform detailed maturity assessments of operational and software development teams, identifying gaps and creating remediation plans to iterate towards high performance and compliance.
  • Develop and maintain application security tooling, providing support for adoption and integration with existing CI/CD pipelines, reporting tools, and assurance platforms.
  • Provide expert implementation advice for cloud environments, continuous integration and continuous deployment pipelines, with a focus on building security into every stage of a products lifecycle.

Requirements:

  • 3 years' experience working with DevOps teams or Software Development teams, implementing secure by design principles and automated security testing capabilities.
  • Strong Experience building CI/CD pipelines, experience with Azure DevOps and AWS Code Suite.
  • Strong communication skills capable of building relationships and influencing outcomes across technical and business stakeholders.
  • Experience developing security controls across cloud, infrastructure, applications, networks and endpoints.
  • Baseline/NV1 clearance required

If you meet the above requirements and are interested in this role, please apply with your resume! You can contact Urvi Thacker for any queries.