- Lead a team of highly technical Cybersecurity Engineers
- Mix of cybersecurity amp; infrastructure engineering
- Pivotal role - opportunity to work on groundbreaking projects
- Flexibility with work hours and work from home and/or office
- Location Open anywhere within New Zealand
About the role:
Our Security Services Engineering team is growing, and we're looking for a passionate individual to lead our talented squad of Cybersecurity Engineers, along with ensuring our service delivery platforms and processes are defined, implemented, and effectively managed throughout their lifecycle. Ultimately your role will be to ensure we have secure platforms and defined processes to drive scale and continuous improvement of our product delivery.
Critical responsibilities include:
- Platform Management Design, implement and proactively maintain all centralised platforms required to delivery service outcomes in accordance with a clear roadmap and plan.
- Knowledge Management Ensure that all technical procedures are consistently documented and maintained.
- Subject Matter Expertise Provide the subject matter expertise across DEFEND in core service functions/technologies.
- Lifecycle Management Ensure ongoing and proactive lifecycle management of all platforms systems and services.
- Major Incident Management Support the resolution of major incidents
- Vendor Support Act as the support intermediary for vendor support issues.
- Ensure that the cybersecurity engineering team has the tools to be successful and the guidance on how to use them.
- Ensure that the cybersecurity engineering team clearly understands what is required of them and they have a clear pathway to developing and growing their careers.
- Support the cybersecurity engineering team in building a centre of excellence around their technologies and the processes required to operate them efficiently and effectively.
Requirements
To be successful in this role you will have:
- Leadership experience gained within infrastructure engineering and architecture - you'll be able to take high level requirements and make it happen!
- In-depth understanding of cybersecurity principles amp; technologies and how they can be leveraged to build and deliver secure services.
- Proven engineering experience in cloud operations including AWS, Azure amp; Microsoft 365
- Have an outcome focused mindset which can translate business requirements into deliverable actions that meet or exceed customer expectations
- Passionate about providing unparalleled levels of service and excellence for customers
- Solid communication skills, along with the confident ability to write and review designs, reports, procedures, and standards
- Promotes and engage in information sharing, technical assistance, advice, and support of other team members
- Strong documentation skills
Benefits
About DEFEND:
We're a business-centric cybersecurity organisation founded by a team of passionate cybersecurity experts whose mission is to - BUILD A CYBER RESILIENT WORLD. Over the last five years, we've experienced phenomenal growth, working with a wide variety of customers in New Zealand and across 66 countries and winning several industry awards, including Microsoft's 2022 New Zealand Partner of the year!
Each customer we work with is different. Our dedicated approach is to help organisations progress on their cyber resilience journey by delivering outstanding industry services with the highest level of professionalism and care.
We hold ourselves accountable by our core values. Our People First culture sets us apart, and we believe working with DEFEND will be a time in your life you will look back on and truly believe you made a real difference.
What’s great about working for DEFEND?
By joining our innovative and creative team you will have the opportunity to contribute a variety of cybersecurity outcomes, from culture amp; awareness of cyber resilience, through to offensive amp; defensive security, developing yourself in technology and digital delivery across multiple sectors.
Work life balance:
- With a national focus throughout New Zealand, our team is made up of skilled individuals at different stages in their careers, therefore we can offer flexibility in base location, as well as embracing remote working
- Flexible working arrangements are available to suit your lifestyle
Career / Professional Development:
We will build on your learning to solve our customers most complex business challenges in the digital age, whilst developing commercial and b