Principal Security Engineer

Job description

What’s the Role: The Principal Security Engineer is a senior technical authority, accountable for the development, delivery and operation of enterprise‑scale application security capabilities across the Westpac Group. This role owns and maintains strategic application security platforms and services and provides expert leadership across application security controls and capability. The role ensures application security solutions remain compliant, effective, resilient and available to the developer community, while enabling secure software delivery at scale across a complex and regulated technology environment. Key Responsibilities: - Act as a principal hands-on technical authority for application security, providing deep expertise across modern application security controls at enterprise scale. - Design, develop and deliver application security solutions spanning static application security testing, software composition analysis, secrets management, container security and software supply-chain security. - Own, operate and maintain application security platforms and services, ensuring they are compliant, effective, resilient and highly available to the developer community. - Lead th...