What you'll do
- Assess, design, implement and manage security protocols, with emphasis on Data Loss Protection to protect Xero’s sensitive data and meeting compliance (SOC2 and ISO27001).
- Provide input and guidance to develop security frameworks and ensure best practices are applied across the Xero network; develop and lead scalable, reliable and secure network architectures such as SASE, ZTNA, DLP, CASB and SWG.
- Automate security configurations and infrastructure-as-code (IaC) practices to reduce operational overhead and improve reliability; support high-availability network security for BAU operations, and deliver solutions in project-driven environments.
- Proactively monitor, detect, and respond to security threats, ensuring incidents are closed, contained, and remediated efficiently in a timely manner.
- Work with SOC teams and security analysts to tune and optimise network security detections for evolving threats; conduct regular security assessments, ensuring network configurations, firewalls, and security policies align with best practices and regulatory standards.
- Provide coaching and mentorship, helping teach small groups of engineers and contributing to Xero's shared knowledge base.
What you'll bring with you
- Deep expertise in Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions, including policy configuration, monitoring, and incident management.
- Extensive experience in network security, cloud-based security solutions, and Zero Trust architectures. - Ideally with proven ability of designing and enforcing Zero Trust security models, ensuring secure authentication, segmentation, and access controls.
- Proficiency in scripting and automation (Python, Terraform, or other infrastructure-as-code tools).
- Experience working with Cloud Access Security Broker (CASB) and Secure Web Gateway (SWG)
- Deep understanding of network security compliance frameworks (SOC2, ISO 27001, NIST, CIS Benchmarks).
- Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to influence without authority and align security priorities with business needs.
- Solid background in cybersecurity incident response, threat detection, and network forensics. Including incident response and troubleshooting skills, ensuring rapid recovery and remediation of network security threats.
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What We Do
Xero is small business accounting software that provides a platform on which businesses can build a fully integrated solution. It’s designed to make life better for people in small business, their advisors, and communities around the world. Xero minimises tedious admin by automating routine tasks, delivers valuable insights when needed, and brings together business data, trusted advisors, and powerful apps in one intuitive platform. By alleviating pain points, Xero empowers small business owners to supercharge their business, simplifying the complex and freeing up time from manual admin so they can focus on what really matters to build the business they’ve always envisaged.
Why Work With Us
We believe that by simplifying the complex we're not only making life better for small business, we’re helping to create a stronger, more vibrant economy. When you join this team, you’re impacting local communities, on a global scale. Being a Fast Co. Best Workplace for Innovators is a direct reflection of our creative, curious culture.
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