Senior Information Security Engineer, Identity (Remote)

Our lab is a back room full of test hardware, old routers and a rack of virtual machines. Founded in 2023, we now have 32 employees.

Position summary

Melbourne Defence is hiring a Senior Information Security Engineer, Identity (Remote) to work remotely from Slovakia. The operations team is small and hands-on. We need someone who writes code and automation, not just policy. The company is based in Melbourne, Australia. The team is distributed across several countries. We engage team members in Slovakia as full-time contractors. Most of our contractors have been with us for more than two years. Core hours overlap with Sydney business hours until mid-afternoon. You need a reliable internet connection and somewhere quiet to work.

Main duties

• Own secrets management, key rotation and KMS policies
• Run threat modelling sessions with engineering teams on new features and architecture changes
• Assess third-party vendors and SaaS integrations for security risk
• Design and maintain SSO, MFA and conditional access with Okta or Entra ID

Minimum qualifications

• 7+ years in security engineering, application security or a related engineering role
• Good judgment on risk: knowing what to fix now and what can wait
• Programming or scripting ability in Python, Go or similar
• Ability to explain security issues to engineers without lecturing them

What we offer

• Annual rate review
• Paid time off

Please submit your CV in English.

We are reviewing applications as they arrive, so apply early.

Duration: 12 months. Start: Within 30 days.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Melbourne Defense.