Senior Security Engineer - GCP
Johannesburg, SA
Technology: Security – Cyber Security Engineering /
Contractor /
On-site
Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
As a Senior Security Engineer, you’ll be hands-on solving problems at scale in our GCP environment. You’ll become deeply familiar with the capabilities of our vendors to build and support modern and adaptable security services that will delight our customers. We run mission-critical infrastructure, and you’ll build resilient and scalable systems. Automation will be the standard for you, and you’ll seek new and interesting ways to reduce our operational overheads. Most importantly, you’ll be a team player and get to work with an awesome group of engineers in an amazing and unique working environment.
What you'll do
- Uplift of Syft’s Google Cloud Platform environment to align with Xero’s security standards
- Input into design and planning for remediation tasks
- Prepare & test implementation plans to help ensure minimisation of service disruption
- Collaborate on implementation of remediation tasks
- Work with other Xero & Syft teams to ensure buy in from stakeholders
What you'll bring with you
- Google Cloud Platform experience and knowledge with IAM
- Compute, Networking, Cloud Storage, Databases amongst other areas
- Security experience and interest in growing your security skills
- A willingness to support and understand the different solutions we use to support our platform systems
- Experience writing code in Python or other scripting languages
- Be a proactive champion of agile and delivery practices who coaches and develops others in this space in order to ensure a consistent approach to ways of working
- A basic understanding of network and system administration security
- A strong drive to work in a team-oriented and collaborative environment
- A passion for delivering high quality products to your customers
Why Xero?
Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, cash referral bonuses, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices with snacks, coffee, and spaces for you to take a break, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.
