Senior Security Specialist

This is a rare opportunity to work alongside the CISO and in a high-growth team wherein your contributions will make a real difference in a critical area for the organization as we enter a period of transformation for the security team to enable acceleration of the delivery of our business strategy. We are open to candidates across New Zealand working remotely.

Serko is an NZX50, global business travel and expense company, with our Headquarters based in Parnell, Auckland. As the 2020 HI-Tech Company of the Year, we're a SaaS that is diverse, close-knit group where everyone's opinion matters. We’re already the established leader in Australasia and revolutionizing the way people do business travel in the USA and Europe – and we’re growing!

Our purpose is to "Bring People Together", coupled with a vision to "Create a Connected, Frictionless Travel Experience". While the world of business travel is changing, we’re preparing companies for this with intelligent technology that helps them ensure the continued safety and wellbeing of their travelers.

Our mission is to "Build the World's Leading Business Travel Marketplace". We’re backed by the likes of Booking.com and there is an exciting road ahead of us at a time where travel needs real, impactful change. We’re hiring people from different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives to help us build a world-class team and product.

Requirements

You’ll be working collaboratively with a number of different cross-functional delivery teams with many industry-leading technical professionals. Serko has an inclusive, engaging, and supportive culture and we need someone who wants to take the next step in their professional journey and isn’t afraid of accepting the challenge of enabling us to get stuck into the ongoing support of the security for our business as well as being an integral part of the team that defines and delivers the future security strategy for the organization.

What you will be doing

• A working knowledge of security attack and defence methods
• Strong presentation skills; able to take complex security topics and influence senior stakeholders with clear and communication skills.
• A proven track record of conducting security risk management to a high standard within fast paced environments.
• Experience in security incident management processes and tools
• Demonstrated experience building credibility and high-trust relationships with stakeholders up to Executive level. Strong commercial organizational awareness;
• A working knowledge of cloud infrastructure services security (Azure preferred)
• Security compliance experience (e.g. PCI-DSS) is preferred
• Professional security certifications such as CISSP is good to have

Benefits

Serko has a culture where our people bring their whole selves to work, where we believe that inclusion & diversity make us better.

• A competitive base salary and opportunity to take part in our employee incentive share scheme, kiwisaver (or global equivalent) and life insurance
• Flexible and hybrid working arrangements, where you get to choose how to best structure your day and week so you can be at your best
• A focus on both wellbeing and doing, including:
  • Wellbeing & volunteer days, focused meeting free time
  • Discounted Southern Cross health insurance (NZ), free flu shots, and access to a confidential support, guidance and counselling service

• Enhanced parental leave including
  • 20 weeks on full pay for the primary caregiver
  • Three weeks paid Partner Leave

• Support for the Primary Caregiver transitioning back to work after leave – work 3 days and paid 5 days for the first month back to work

• Access to travel industry discounts