Cybersecurity Engineer

**About the Role**:
We’re looking for people who have a passion for engineering and cybersecurity and understand what it means to help organisations protect their systems and business and personal information assets. At DEFEND, we go one step further and take our customers on a journey and proactively work with them to shift left by ensuring cybersecurity is effectively embedded from the very beginning of any project rather than relying solely on testing at the end.

Your day-to-day responsibilities:

- Work with our customers to understand their technical requirements and design and build excellently engineered solutions.
- Adapt to our customer's agile or waterfall design methodologies and embed with customer teams to provide cyber security guidance and support.
- Provide secure by design practices into new technology solutions and secure design of new security solutions.
- Take the capability and support of the DEFEND practices to show technical leadership to customers.
- Work effectively in virtual customer teams and collaborate with other technology specialists.
- Provide depth of capability in one or more technology areas ranging from AWS, Azure, Microsoft 365, IoT, cloud-based security services, on-premises systems, information protection and identity platforms.
- Successfully hand over completed implementations to operational teams, including providing some transitional support and guidance.

**Requirements**:
**Signs of success**:
You’ll need a rich combination of experience, proven skills, and personal attributes to be successful in this role. See below to find out if you’re the person we’re looking for.

Skills We Can’t Do Without
- Experience in a security role across different technologies and services
- Passionate about providing unparalleled levels of service and convenience for customers
- Able to work with ambiguity, and learn quickly in an innovative, fun, and dynamic environment
- Solid communication skills, along with the confident ability to write and review designs, reports, procedures, and standards
- Care about doing a great job and exceeding expectations with the quality of what you do

Skills we’d like
- A Degree in security, security related courses or certificates
- Experience working with security technologies including:

- Microsoft Defender for Office 365, Endpoints, Identity, IoT and Cloud Apps
- Azure and Azure Active Directory
- AWS
- Information Protection and Compliance
- Vulnerability Management

**Benefits**

**What’s great about working for DEFEND?**

By joining our innovative and creative team you will have the opportunity to contribute to a variety of cybersecurity outcomes, from culture & awareness of cyber resilience, through to offensive & 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 business skills, along with:

- Continuous learning: You’ll develop the mindset and skills to navigate whatever comes next
- Success as defined by you: We’ll provide the tools and flexibility, so you can make a meaningful impact, your way
- Mentors: You’ll be joining a team of truly passionate and highly skilled individuals who are at the top of their game and who enjoy imparting their knowledge and experience to others
- Opportunity: Progress into other exciting roles across DEFEND

**Diversity & Inclusion**:
We’re committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Our goal is to be recognised as an employer of choice for all, irrespective of gender, ethnicity, generation, flexible work status, family circumstances, sexual orientation, or disability. Each addition to our team is an opportunity to grow and diversify our ideas, experiences, and viewpoints.