Our Purpose
At Xero, we’re here to help you supercharge your business. We do this by automating routine tasks, surfacing actionable insights and connecting businesses with the right data, advisors and apps. When that happens, we’re not only making life better for small business, we’ll be building a stronger economy that can change the world.
About the team and role
Join Xero as a Technical Security Consultant where you will have a strong interest and understanding of security concepts, infrastructure or application development and use this to provide support and solutions and develop an understanding of good security practice to our engineering teams.
New Technical Security Consultants will undergo an initial multi-disciplined mentoring programme with the Team Lead and Leads in preparation for conducting discrete tasks. You will conduct broader technical consultancy. You will contribute to technical security consultancy initiatives, consistently challenging the norm and delivering quality solutions. You will collaborate with the team lead and other leads to continue fostering an ever-learning culture.
This is an exciting opportunity for those with an engineering or consultancy background eager to advise engineering teams on security!
What you'll do
- This is a very people-focused support role - we prefer to be on the ground with developers, rather than in an ivory tower.
- Develop and maintain documentation to make our guidance available to all. This position is often orientated around the creation of documentation.
- Develop knowledge of offensive and defensive security practices to create pragmatic and wide-reaching default approaches for the teams we support.
- Trace a potential security issue to a particular bug within a codebase, and work with development teams to remediate the problem.
- Teach and train other members of the team
- Lead specific security driven initiatives
- Help develop new initiatives to create new industry-leading approaches to security issues.
- Be a champion for secure best practice and customer safety.
What success looks like
- Developing an ever-growing set of competencies by learning on the job.
- Eagerly taking on new challenges, demonstrating a passion for doing security well.
- Driven new initiatives to their desired outcomes
- Becoming a subject matter expert on a technology niche.
- Sharing their knowledge amongst the team
- Contributing to and improving security guidelines, patterns and practices.
- Providing input into developing Xero's future security state in a way that is industry-leading.
What you'll bring with you
- Has good examples of past technology research and investigation.
- Has previously self-taught themselves an aspect of technology.
- Some familiarity of web services and web application development.
- Linux/Unix knowledge is beneficial.
- Hands-on experience with AWS
Why Xero?
Offering very generous paid leave to use however you’d like (plus statutory holidays!), dedicated paid leave to care for your physical and mental wellbeing as well as an Employee Assistance Program to access mental health care for you and your family, health insurance, life insurance, and income protection, wellbeing and sports programmes, employee resource groups, 26 weeks of paid parental leave for primary caregivers, an Employee Share Plan, beautiful offices, flexible working, career development, and many other benefits that reflect our human value, you’ll do the best work of your life at Xero.
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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
Xero is a human-centric organization where you’ll have a tangible impact on the success of small businesses and their communities, globally. Our team of energised, forward-thinkers work to make life better for our customers and each other every day. We’re also always committed to supporting you with a flexible environment.
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