Senior DevSecOps Engineer - 6 months initial contract

Your New Company

Join a fast-growing technology and digital ventures business that operates at the intersection of fintech, innovation, and enterprise scale. With a portfolio of products serving millions of customers across financial services and consumer markets, you'll have the opportunity to shape security practices across multiple cloud-native platforms and development teams.

Your New Role

As a Senior DevSecOps Engineer, you will play a key role in strengthening security capabilities across a diverse portfolio of digital products. Working as part of a small, highly capable security team, you'll combine hands-on engineering with advisory responsibilities, partnering closely with technology teams to embed security into every stage of the software development lifecycle.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who enjoys variety, autonomy, and the challenge of operating in an workplace that blends startup agility with enterprise-scale security requirements.

What You'll Be Doing

- Drive DevSecOps and security automation initiatives.
- Embed security controls into cloud and software delivery pipelines.
- Partner with engineering teams to improve security posture across multiple products.
- Conduct security reviews and provide risk-based recommendations.
- Support security operations, incident response and vulnerability management activities.
- Identify,



prioritise and escalate security risks where required.
- Contribute to cloud security architecture and engineering best practices.
- Act as a trusted security advisor to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

What You'll Need
- Strong experience in DevSecOps, Cloud Security or Security Engineering.
- Hands-on experience with Microsoft security technologies including Defender, Sentinel and Entra ID.
- Strong AWS security experience, with Azure exposure also highly regarded.
- Experience with cloud security and vulnerability management platforms such as Wiz.
- Understanding of Infrastructure as Code and modern cloud-native environments.
- Strong stakeholder engagement and communication skills.
- Ability to balance security requirements with business and delivery outcomes.
- Experience working across multiple teams, products or business units.

What's in It for You?
- Opportunity to work across a diverse portfolio of innovative digital products.
- Highly autonomous role with broad exposure across cloud, security operations and engineering.
- Strong technology setting leveraging modern cloud and security tooling.
- Flexible hybrid working arrangement.
- Competitive day rate with potential longer-term opportunities.

If you're a hands-on security professional who enjoys working across cloud security, DevSecOps and security operations, we'd love to hear from you.

📌 Senior DevSecOps Engineer (Sydney)
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📍 Sydney