Senior Security Engineer
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Key details
- Location
- Sydney, NSW, Australia
- Work style
- Onsite
- Level
- Senior
- Function
- Software engineering
- Focus area
- Security
- Posted
- 2d ago
Skills
About the role
Want to be a part of Asia Pacific & Middle East's (APME) largest, most innovative, and rapidly growing data centre company?
AirTrunk is a hyperscale data centre company with a powerful purpose - to scale and sustain the relentless growth of the region’s digital future. We do this by continuously redefining and delivering the digital infrastructure that meet the needs of our customers - the world’s most transformational companies. And we’re doing so sustainably, for today and tomorrow.
Having opened Australia’s first and largest hyperscale data centres in 2017, we set our eyes on rapid expansion and now operate a platform of hyperscale data centres across the APME region. With backing from our investors, including Blackstone, this is just the beginning…
Come join the A-Team at AirTrunk, where the cloud meets the ground.
Your Impact
As a Senior Security Systems Engineer based in Sydney, you will report to the Director, Security and work closely with Security Operations, Data Centre Operations, ICT, Development, Construction, and external partners across the APAC region, making your mark in a number of ways:
- Provide operational engineering support for AirTrunk’s electronic security systems across the full system lifecycle, ensuring systems remain secure, reliable, resilient, and fit for purpose.
- Support the management, maintenance, governance, and continuous improvement of electronic security systems across AirTrunk’s corporate and hyperscale data centre environments.
- Increase customer confidence by driving consistent security system standards, operational excellence, and quality outcomes across the APAC portfolio.
- Strengthen operational resilience by providing dedicated engineering support for incidents, maintenance activities, system reviews, upgrades, and major operational events.
- Support regional growth by acting as a dedicated Electronic Security Subject Matter Expert (SME) for projects, site operations, technical workshops, and stakeholder engagement activities.
- Build internal engineering capability and technical ownership, reducing reliance on external vendors while improving governance, consistency, and delivery outcomes across AirTrunk's security systems portfolio.
What You'll Do
Security Systems Operations & Engineering
- Provide operational engineering support for AirTrunk's electronic security systems across the full system lifecycle, including design review, implementation, maintenance, upgrades, and decommissioning.
- Act as the senior technical escalation point for complex security systems incidents, faults, and performance issues.
- Deliver high-level technical support and subject matter expertise to Security Operations, Data Centre Operations, ICT teams, project teams, and other business stakeholders.
- Manage and coordinate security system changes through established change management processes, ensuring minimal operational disruption and adherence to AirTrunk standards.
- Monitor system health, performance, resilience, and availability across the security systems environment.
- Lead root cause investigations and corrective actions following system failures, incidents, or outages.
- Support disaster recovery, redundancy testing, and business continuity activities for critical security technology platforms.
Security Systems Governance & Continuous Improvement
- Conduct regular system reviews, health checks, audits, and technical assessments to improve system performance, resilience, security, and compliance.
- Strengthen governance through compliance monitoring, technical documentation, engineering standards, and implementation of security engineering best practices.
- Develop, maintain, and continuously improve security systems standards, technical baselines, and operating procedures.
- Drive consistency and standardisation of electronic security systems across all A