Security Engineer

The Team

SEEKs Cyber Security team covers a wide range of security disciplines and responsibilities. While we have specialised sub-teams we deliberately encourage cross-functional expertise development - youll have opportunities to grow beyond your core focus areas.

The team has executive backing and real influence over security decisions. Youll be empowered to identify control gaps or risks and work toward effective mitigations that protect both our infrastructure and the millions of people who use our products

The Role

Were looking for a security engineer with identity expertise to help protect and scale our corporate identity platforms. Youll be working hands-on with systems like Okta building automation where it makes sense and implementing security controls that address real threats. This role involves balancing security best practices with business needs while providing practical guidance to stakeholders.

• Support uplift activities across identity platforms like Okta to stay ahead of evolving threats
• Partner with stakeholders to ensure secure implementation of Active Directory Windows Mac Microsoft 365 and other corporate infrastructure
• Configure and troubleshoot SAML OIDC and SCIM integrations for new applications
• Deploy and support security infrastructure tooling and capabilities
• Implement and improve monitoring and alerting to proactively identify threats within the corporate environmen
• Develop and maintain documented procedures runbooks and security guidelines
• Translate technical risks into business context - communicate security risks and compliance gaps clearly to various stakeholders
• Support infrastructure and project risk evaluation remediation planning and process improvements alongside technical and business teams
• Stay current with best practices and regulations designing security controls that protect against emerging threats
• Help build a security-aware culture where trust and privacy are embedded in how we work

Qualifications :

Skills and Experience

Were looking for practical experience securing and managing identity platforms at scale. This might come from a security engineering background systems/platform engineering with a security focus or similar hands-on roles. You should be comfortable working independently on identity and authentication challenges. If youve got that foundation but dont tick every box below we encourage you to apply.

Technical Skills - What youll use daily

• Hands-on experience with enterprise identity platforms (Okta Azure AD/Entra ID or similar)
• Working knowledge of authentication protocols (SAML OAuth OIDC Kerberos NTLM) and how to troubleshoot them
• Microsoft ecosystem experience - Active Directory Microsoft 365 Azure services
• AWS experience - comfortable working with IAM roles and policies and navigating core AWS services (EC2 S3 RDS Lambda etc.)
• Scripting ability (PowerShell Python or similar) - we care more about automation mindset than specific languages
• Experience debugging authentication issues using logs traces network diagnostics and understanding of underlying protocols (DNS TLS TCP/IP)
• Understanding of identity lifecycle management and access control patterns

Security Mindset - How youll think

• Ability to identify security risks in identity configurations and recommend practical fixes
• Understanding of common identity attacks and how to defend against them
• Experience applying security controls that balance risk with usability
• Knowledge of privileged access management and least privilege principle

Working Style - How youll succeed

• Problem solver who can work both independently and collaboratively with support available when needed
• Open to mentoring others and being mentored - we all have knowledge to share
• Comfortable managing multiple priorities in a small team environment
• Strong troubleshooting mindset - methodical debugging of complex authentication flows Clear communicator who can explain technical identity concepts to various stakeholders
• Pragmatic security mindset - comfortable making risk-based decisions and balancing security controls with business velocity

Nice to have but not essential

• SIEM/SOAR experience (Splunk CrowdStrike)
• Security certifications (Okta Microsoft CISSP etc.)
• Experience supporting Mac/Linux alongside Windows
• Active in security community (BSides security research)

Additional Information :

Perks and benefits
At SEEK we offer:

• Support of flexible working including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• Paid and unpaid leave benefits including Personal Flexi Days  as well as the opportunity to purchase additional leave
• Free kick-start breakfast every morning and fresh fruit available all day in our offices
• Casual dress every day

At SEEK we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences especially as they relate to gender sexual identity culture faith disability and life stages. If you have the skills curiosity and an adaptable mindset but dont meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

For this role only those with eligible right to work will be considered.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time