It Security Architecture

About us

We’re a fast-growing privately-owned company with a clear focus on being a challenger in our industry. We work together as a team to bring to life our purpose and achieve our vision – to be Australia’s best insurer.
 

We have a culture of high performance with high integrity which underpins our values and the way we interact with our customers, the community and each other.
 

About the team

Working in an Agile Environment, the Security Architect will play a crucial role in designing, evaluating, and maintaining the security infrastructure across Auto & General. Providing guidance, architectural advice to the business, technology and the security teams will form part of the responsibilities needed to ensure the successful delivery of software and supporting infrastructure with a cloud first approach in general terms. More specifically the role will be responsible for developing and executing comprehensive security strategies that ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of Auto & General’s information assets.

This role sits at the intersection of Security, Infrastructure & IT Operations and Development teams and requires a keen eye for continuous innovation and process improvements to deliver secure, reliable, efficient solutions for Auto & General customers. A key function of this role will be to reduce time to market for specific AI innovations and initiatives.

Successful candidates will be:

• Comfortable in influencing and communicating with all stakeholders about Security, Development, Cloud Services and Architecture practice and subsequent culture shifts.
• Passionate about Security/Cloud/Automation and have a keen interest to solve complex problems in a systematic approach.
• You take ownership of a situation by being inclusive, collaborative with a positive attitude, and know how to iterate through a problem quickly.
• You enjoy collaborating closely with your peers, Delivery, Development, and DevOps teams to drive continuous improvements/deployments/initiatives.
• Mindset for continuous learning and adapting to the ever-changing technology landscape.
• You have excellent people and communication capabilities to collaborate with all levels of stakeholders to drive a customer-first approach and ensure successful business outcomes from a Security Architecture aspect.
• Document, review, and update architecture materials
• Participate and contribute to Auto & General architectural ceremonies (working groups & forum)

Technical skills

• First class interpersonal skills with the ability to build consensus and articulate a strategy.
• Demonstrated experience in software development, infrastructure, and Cloud as an Architect on large complex systems.
• Expertise in building and designing cloud platform/solution that enables rapid delivery of high-quality software.
• Current knowledge of security tools and capabilities

Knowledge of cloud automation tools, infrastructure as Code (Iac) (Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation

• Knowledge of building and maintaining sophisticated CI/CD Pipelines & automation with tools like (Gitlab, bitbucket, bamboo, Jenkins, SonarQube, etc).
• Knowledge of git, branching strategy, and release process.
• Knowledge of implementation and design of AWS cloud solutions, serverless architecture, and AWS Well Architected Framework in a commercial enterprise environment.
• Knowledge of implementing Security, Development, and DevOps practices.
• Ability to manage and prioritise multiple projects and their requirements.

Our perks

• Extra leave - Enjoy additional leave days on us! You’ll receive a paid ‘ME’ day and one paid volunteer leave day annually. Team members can also purchase up to two additional weeks of leave per year.
• Role variety – We have a range of varying assessment types across different product offerings from pre-repair assessments to post repair quality audits. Our goal is for our Assessors to be multiskilled and manage a variety of skillsets that provides you stimulation of job variety.
• Paid parental leave - We support our new parents with paid parental leave and other benefits.
• Workplace giving - If you’re passionate about a cause, then we are too – we offer workplace giving and we’ll dollar match your donations to registered charities.
• Development opportunities - We’re championing your development with internal programs and access to a wide range of online courses so you have opportunities to achieve your career aspirations as our business grows..
• Employee discounts - You’ll receive discounts on Budget Direct insurance products.
• Reward and recognition - We reward high performance with employee recognition, reward and incentive schemes.
• Employee Assistance Program – We care about our people and offer an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) which provides professional counselling for employees and their immediate families
• Get social - Join our vibrant social and community activities including annual celebrations, family fun days and regular events across each of our sites.