Senior Security Engineer

We’re Littlepay - a successful fintech headquartered in Melbourne with operations in UK, EU and USA. We operate a payments platform that enables customers to pay for public transport using any payment card, mobile wallet, or wearable device. Littlepay is now processing transactions in 12 countries and continuing to expand globally.

Our Littlepay values:

• Trust and be trustworthy
• Embrace challenge
• Solve problems, together
• Deliver with speed and agility
• Be candid and kind

About the opportunity

Reporting to the Information Security Manager, the Senior Security Engineer will be responsible for many of the key functions around security operations and architecture, enhancing threat detection capabilities and incident response.

This role provides an exciting opportunity for those with a passion for security and technologies, it offers the chance to utilise and enhance your skills in threat detection, and response. You'll play a critical role with a strong technical focus that aims to ensure the resilience and robustness of Littlepay’s platform and to help in achieving Littlepay’s security objectives and deliverables.

Day to day, you’ll:

• Enhance threat detection capabilities through design, integration and tuning of security tools and technologies.
• Plan and implement security automation across multiple technology stacks.
• Assist with architecture review and design through a security lens.
• Develop and implement comprehensive incident response plans; manage and coordinate cybersecurity incidents from identification through resolution
• Collaborate, coach and assist to teams in solving security issues in a manner that complies with business requirements and to ensure cybersecurity best practices are integrated across the organisation.
• Conduct regular security assessments, audits, and continuous monitoring to identify vulnerabilities and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
• Stay up-to-date on the latest security threats landscape and vulnerabilities as well as advancements in cybersecurity technologies and methodologies and bring insights into the organisation.

Requirements

About you

You are a highly motivated and experienced Security Engineer (we’re looking for at least 5 years’ experience in cybersecurity) with a strong knowledge of network, Security Engineering principles and practices.

The successful applicant need not arrive with all of the required skills and knowledge from day 1, as we’ve built learning into our team practice with a day per week set aside for personal and professional growth. We’re open to many different skillsets, and candidates who can speak to any of these topics are folks we’d like to chat with:

• Experience in engineering cyber security tools like SIEM/SOAR, EDR, firewalls, intrusion detection systems.
• Advanced understanding of security protocols, cryptography, and network
• Experience working in AWS.
• Security frameworks and methodologies — OWASP Top 10, MITRE ATT&CK, Cyber Kill Chain, etc

Regardless of what kind of player you are, these skills are essential:

• Strong background in cyber security. Strong understanding of cyber security principles.
• Proficient in scripting languages to automate SOC processes.
• Communication - we do a lot of communicating and strong written and verbal communication will be important
• Empathy - we’re a service provider, so having high empathy for our internal stakeholders is a big deal
• Passion for learning - we take learning and growth seriously and you’ll need to be down with that

You'll join a diverse, ego-less and empathetic team that strives for high social cohesion, have the opportunity to learn about the payment processing ecosystem, and be involved in the provision of critical services that impact millions of daily commuters - all within the tight-knit environment of an agile scale-up.

Our recruitment process

If you’ve been shortlisted for the role, you’ll first have a chat with a member of the Talent team, who will set up an interview if the stars align. A short workplace preferences questionnaire will also be sent to help us learn more about the way you prefer to work. Following a successful first interview, you’ll be sent a technical challenge. If we like what we see, we’ll invite you to interview with a second set of Littlepay folks before presenting an offer.

If you have any questions regarding the recruitment process or if you require any accommodations for any stage in the interview process, please let us know. Additionally, if you don’t meet all of the criteria (we know that some underrepresented groups tend to avoid applying if they don’t), please still apply. We really enjoy meeting people who might bring a fresh perspective on a problem we need to solve!

Ultimately, being part of our small but mighty team means you'll have the opportunity to learn about micropayments, and have a hand in the provision of services that impact millions of people. You’ll help us deliver on our revolutionary product roadmap and help scale our platform as we continue to expand across the globe.

Benefits

We love to look after our people. At Littlepay, you'll be part of an inclusive and diverse team that celebrates the differences and unique gifts we each bring to work.

You’ll have access to:

• A high trust working environment, with access to cloud collaboration tools like Notion, Slack, Miro, Google Workspace, and Jira to help us work together effectively
• Paid professional development (including conferences, courses, learning subscriptions, etc.)
• Harrison Assessments - our talent management provider that facilitates continuous professional development
• A variety of flexible leave options (including annual, personal, volunteer, parental, grandparental, gender affirmation, and more)
• Superannuation contributions on all paid parental leave payments
• A company-wide paid day off
• Our flexible public holiday program
• Flexible (hybrid) working conditions
• Wellbeing support- including a free School of Life subscription for all employees, and counselling via the School of Life (UK) or our EAP program (Australia)
• Our generous employee referral program
• Mid-year, quarterly, and end-of-year corporate and team events and workshops
• Short-term remote working arrangements
• International travel opportunities (dependent on role)

You’ll also be able to take up the numerous other benefits that working at Littlepay affords you - including being part of a growing community of innovators at Stone and Chalk, where we enjoy lunch ‘n’ learns, summertime barbeques, ping pong tournaments, fortnightly drinks, catered breakfasts and morning teas, and more.

If this opportunity interests you, hit apply! We look forward to learning about you.

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