Security Engineer - Detection & Automation

About the Client

Our client is a specialist cyber security business working with organisations to strengthen their security capability, visibility and resilience.

They are looking for a hands-on Security Engineer to join their Auckland team, with a strong focus on detection engineering, security automation and integrating security tooling.

This is an opportunity for someone who enjoys building, scripting and automating security capability rather than simply responding to alerts.

About the Role

This role sits at the intersection of cyber security and software engineering.

You will help improve how suspicious and malicious activity is identified, alerted on and, where possible, contained across client environments.

A key part of the role will be automating processes between security platforms, improving data flow and developing tooling that reduces repetitive manual work for security analysts.

This is not a traditional SOC Analyst role!
It will suit someone who enjoys scripting, building integrations, developing detection logic and solving security problems through automation.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain security automation tooling and integrations
• Build scripts and tools to improve security visibility and operational efficiency
• Create, tune and maintain detection logic and threat detection capabilities
• Automate security workflows using APIs, playbooks and security tooling
• Improve data flow between security platforms and technologies
• Support SIEM, SOAR, EDR/XDR and network detection capabilities
• Embed security best practices into development and engineering environments
• Contribute to security architecture and engineering improvements
• Work closely with developers, security analysts and technical teams
• Identify opportunities to automate repetitive security processes

What We Are Looking For

You will ideally come from a background in:

• Security Engineering
• Detection Engineering
• Security Automation
• DevSecOps
• Application Security
• Software Engineering with a strong security focus

You do not necessarily need to tick every box, but strong scripting capability combined with practical cyber security experience will be important.
Programming & Automation Experience with some of the following:

• Python
• PowerShell
• Ruby
• C or similar programming languages
• API integrations
• Scripting and software development practices
• Databases and data handling
• Workflow automation

Security & Detection Experience or exposure across:

• Detection engineering
• Creating and tuning threat detection logic
• KQL / Kusto Query Language
• YARA-L
• SQL or similar query languages
• MITRE ATT&CK
• SIEM and SOAR platforms
• EDR / XDR technologies
• Network detection and monitoring

Other Useful Experience Exposure to any of the following would also be valuable:

• CI/CD pipelines
• Cloud-native environments
• DevSecOps
• Application Security / AppSec
• Security tooling integrations
• Security workflow automation

About You

You are technically curious and enjoy understanding how systems work, then finding ways to make them more efficient, scalable and secure.

You will be:

• Hands-on and comfortable working across different technologies
• Strong at problem solving
• Confident scripting and working with APIs
• Comfortable collaborating with developers and engineering teams
• Able to explain technical security concepts clearly
• Naturally focused on automation and continuous improvement
• Interested in building security capability, not just operating existing tools

What’s On Offer

• Permanent, full-time opportunity
• Hybrid working
• Parnell, Auckland
• Hands-on technical security engineering role
• Exposure across detection engineering, automation, SIEM/SOAR and modern security tooling
• Opportunity to build and improve security capabilities across client environments
• Work within a specialist cyber security environment

If you are a Security Engineer who enjoys coding, automation, integrations and building better ways to detect threats, we would love to hear from you.

We review applications as they come in, so apply today with your updated CV and cover letter.