Security Engineering - Excellence & Continuous Improvement Lead

About the role

Telstra is hiring a Security Engineering Excellence & Continuous Improvement Lead within its Security Engineering Centre of Excellence. You will define and influence the adoption of consistent engineering, compliance, operational and resilience practices across Telstra's cyber security technology landscape. The position is permanent and open to candidates based anywhere in Australia.

Key responsibilities

• Define, maintain and mature security engineering standards, baselines and measures of engineering excellence, and influence their adoption across programs, day-to-day operations and change.
• Establish and improve technology operations and lifecycle practices, including adoption, currency, supportability, change management and retirement expectations for security technologies.
• Own pattern governance across the lifecycle, partnering with the Automation function to govern, adopt, maintain and improve reusable security patterns.
• Translate compliance obligations, Technology Assurance Process outcomes, assurance findings and improvement intake into prioritised, accountable actions and implemented results.
• Lead the uplift of DevSecOps and operational practices by defining guidance, controls and measures, then influencing delivery teams to embed them.
• Identify and prioritise systemic engineering and operational issues, drive cross-functional remediation and track actions to measurable improvement.
• Partner with the Resilience function to develop reusable resilience guidance and support its adoption across security technologies, services and delivery practices.

Required profile

• 5-7 years of experience in cyber security, technology engineering or operational environments, with practical experience defining and embedding engineering standards or practices.
• Demonstrated experience establishing standards, baselines, governance or maturity measures and driving adoption across multiple technical teams.
• Strong understanding of technology operations and lifecycle management, including BAU, program delivery, operational support, change management and technology currency.
• Experience turning compliance, assurance or governance outcomes into prioritised actions delivered to implementation.
• Proven ability to influence without direct authority and build trusted relationships across engineering, operations, automation, resilience and delivery stakeholders.
• Desirable: familiarity with Telstra's business planning, performance, governance and Game Plan ways of working.

Required skills

• Knowledge of DevSecOps, secure engineering and operational practices.
• Desirable: security pattern governance, reusable engineering patterns, automation-enabled controls or policy-as-code approaches.
• Desirable: experience supporting resilience, reliability or operational readiness practices for business-critical technologies.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications or industry certifications in cyber security, engineering, technology operations, governance or service management.

What we offer

• Performance-related pay.
• Access to thousands of learning programs.
• Purchased annual leave scheme and an additional Telstra day off.
• Additional 30% off Telstra products and services.
• Toolkit provided (laptop, mobile phone and plan paid for).