Senior Security Engineer

Job Description

Kordia is a leading provider of innovative technology solutions. For more than 65 years, we’ve been helping keep New Zealanders and their businesses safe, connected, and prepared for the future. We work across New Zealand, Australia, and the Pacific, delivering mission-critical technology in cloud, cyber security, broadcasting, maritime communications, critical communications infrastructure, and more.

Ko tā mātou mahi – About the Role

We’re looking for a Senior Security Engineer to take technical ownership of the cloud and security platforms behind Kordia’s managed security services.

This is a hands-on senior role spanning Microsoft Azure, Microsoft Sentinel, detection engineering and incident response. You’ll design and improve security capabilities, lead the onboarding of customer data and integrations, and help ensure our platforms remain secure, resilient and scalable. You’ll also be a senior escalation point when complex security incidents require deeper technical expertise.

There’s a strong customer and commercial dimension too. You’ll contribute to consulting engagements, advise customers on strengthening their security maturity, and bring technical credibility to solution design and pre-sales conversations. It’s an opportunity to combine deep engineering expertise with customer impact, technical leadership and the continued evolution of Kordia’s managed security services.

Ko tō mahi – What you’ll be doing

Reporting to the Security Engineering Lead within Managed Services, you’ll provide specialist expertise across cloud engineering and cyber security. You’ll own and continuously improve key Microsoft security platforms while supporting incident response, customer engagements, service development and the growth of technical capability across the team.

What you’ll be responsible for:

• Own and continuously improve Kordia’s Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Sentinel environments supporting our managed security services.
• Lead the onboarding of customer data sources and telemetry into Sentinel, including integrations, connectors and automation workflows.
• Develop detection content, analytics rules, threat hunting capabilities and response playbooks, improving quality through tuning, enrichment and automation.
• Provide advanced analysis and response to security incidents, acting as a senior escalation point and helping coordinate containment, eradication and recovery.
• Apply cloud engineering expertise to improve the security, resilience, visibility and performance of customer and managed environments.
• Deliver customer-facing security consulting and advisory engagements, helping customers strengthen their security operations, maturity and risk management.
• Provide technical input into solution design, pre-sales engagements, proposals and statements of work.
• Coach and share knowledge with other technical team members, contributing to standards, best practice and continuous capability development.

Nā tōu rourou – What you will bring

• Proven experience in cyber security operations, Managed Detection and Response (MDR), a Security Operations Centre (SOC), or a similar environment.
• Strong expertise in Microsoft security technologies, including Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender, Azure security and endpoint security.
• Hands-on Azure cloud engineering and architecture experience, including data onboarding, integrations and platform management.
• Experience designing security monitoring, detection and response capabilities and investigating complex cyber security incidents.
• Understanding of modern Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) and Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platforms. CrowdStrike experience is desirable.
• Strong customer consulting and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly.
• Commercial awareness and the judgement to balance customer outcomes, operational effectiveness and business objectives.
• Demonstrated technical leadership, mentoring and problem-solving capability.
• A relevant tertiary qualification or equivalent industry experience. Microsoft security certifications such as SC-200 or AZ-500 are advantageous.

Nōu te rourou – Why Kordia?

Here, you’ll work on meaningful, real-world cyber challenges, protecting organisation’s and critical services across New Zealand and beyond. Your expertise will directly influence how threats are detected, incidents are handled, and security services evolve.

We offer a competitive salary, matched superannuation up to 5%, insurance benefits, and additional leave entitlements. We also support flexible working, with a hybrid model that balances time in the office with working from home.

Our preference is for a Wellington-based candidate, however we would consider strong applicants from Christchurch or Auckland.