Senior Security Engineer - DevSecOps

What you’ll be doing

As a Senior DevSecOps Engineer, you'll embed security automation into our infrastructure and CICD pipelines to secure our build and run. As a technical SME, you will play a hands-on role in shifting security left and in empowering engineering teams with secure components and patterns.

• Standardize security practice through Infrastructure-as-code and services orchestration in AWS.
• Secure CI/D pipelines and deployment practices.
• Automate VulnOps and secure dependencies management.
• Build observability and monitoring capabilities on agentic systems with OTEL.
• Contribute to incident response efforts.

What we’re looking for

• Demonstrated experience in software engineering/platform engineering and security engineering.
• Experience implementing end-to-end orchestration and secure patterns in AWS.
• Experience designing and maintaining CICD gates across the build, release and run phases. Exposure to secure dependency management best practices.
• Exposure to vulnerabilities remediation at run time.
• Hands-on practical use of AI for security, high degree of curiosity for novel threats and agentic systems.
• Team player with ability to influence and multiply what good looks like across technical teams.

We know not everyone will meet every requirement, and that’s okay. If you’re excited about the role and believe you can make a difference, we’d love to hear from you.

A few other things we want you to know...

• As an equal opportunity employer, carsales welcomes applications from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, abilities, and life experiences. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and supported.
• If you have a disability or require adjustments to participate fully in the recruitment process, please let us know - we’re here to support you.
• We understand the importance of work-life balance and offer flexible working arrangements, including part-time options. If you’d like to explore this, just ask during the process.
• We’re also a proud Circle Back Initiative employer, which means we commit to responding to every applicant.
• Successful candidates joining the carsales team will need to complete a National Police Record check and must have full-time Australian working rights.

So come join us - because every role plays a vital part in our journey toward something big!