Senior Security Engineer

Te Tūranga – About the role

As a Senior Security Engineer, you will be part of a key team within a customer focused, high performing IT Operations team. You’ll contribute to all aspects of IT security, including Foodies’ hybrid multi-cloud environment, across the breadth of our Co-op.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Shape and advance our security strategy across Zero Trust, cloud security architecture, threat‑informed defence, and continuous assurance.
• Drive continuous threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and attack‑surface reduction using automation and AI‑enabled tooling.
• Lead and enhance security incident response while running threat‑informed exercises to strengthen organisational readiness.
• Oversee vendor and SaaS security requirements, including supply‑chain controls, SBOM validation, and vendor assurance processes.
• Champion DevSecOps practices across secure CI/CD, container security, IaC validation, and policy‑as‑code enforcement.
• Participate in a roster to provide an on call security response as and when necessary.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role where your expertise will embed security into everything we do. If you’re passionate about cybersecurity, love solving problems, and want to be part of a team that’s serious about making a difference, this is your opportunity to lead, influence, and innovate.

What You Bring

• Expertise in Zero Trust, cloud security, identity governance, API security, and modern security architectures.
• Strong technical background across SIEM, SOAR, EDR, vulnerability management, container security, and automation.
• Demonstrated ability to influence architecture and development teams in secure design.
• Experience with IaC, CI/CD pipelines, and secure cloud deployment patterns.
• Strong analytical, investigative, and forensic abilities across cloud and on‑prem environments.

Your communication style is clear and effective, whether you're working with technical or non-technical stakeholders. You thrive in collaborative settings but are equally comfortable taking initiative and owning outcomes. Curious by nature and driven by continuous improvement, you bring energy, expertise, and a growth mindset to everything you do.

We’re interested in your diverse experiences, your strengths and how adaptable you are to learn and grow. If you don't meet every requirement, but feel this role could be for you, we’d still love to hear from you!

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We’re proud to have a focus on Diversity & Inclusion here at Foodies and welcome courageous behaviour, encourage togetherness, inspire our people to be their best selves in our Foodies whānau.

We encourage you to apply with all your awesomeness and welcome your diverse background, including any disability, additional health and mental health needs, and/or neurodiversity.

If you require accessibility support to ensure you can fairly access our recruitment process, please reach out to Recruitment.Foodstuffs@foodstuffs.co.nz. Accessibility support could include, interview location, sign language interpreter, assistive technology.