Director - Cybersecurity Engineering

Company Description

Take a seat on the Xplor rocket ship and join us as the Director - Cybersecurity Engineering to help people succeed across the world.

We’re a global team of builders, listeners and problem-solvers who are relentlessly focused on making life simple, so our customers can get back to growing their business, engaging consumers and doing what they love.

Job Description

About the opportunity

At Xplor, the Central Technology Team has one main purpose: to enable and complement the business strategies and goals while solving real problems for our customers and users.

You'll join Xplor Security, a global team that manages Security for all of our products and services. 

This role leads a global team of talented security professionals to run continuous testing across our products, systems and platforms, to maintain maximum visibility over our security risk exposure, and to assist our product developers and system administrators to mitigate against security risks.

Reporting into our VP Global Cyber Defence & Response, you'll contribute to the security of our platforms and applications. Some of the other responsibilities you'll have: 

• Establish and maintain relationships with key stakeholders in IT, Engineering and Product
• Co-ordinate actions between Engineering and other Defence & Response teams such as CTR and Adversary to ensure a constant feedback loop between attack and defence tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs)
• Plan, prioritise and manage the delivery of the adversary security testing schedule across Xplor products and infrastructure
• Contribute to the ongoing development of standards, processes, and architectural patterns to improve security
• Ongoing operational, risk and compliance led tasks related to security
• Develop talent
• Manage the performance of team members
• Create training plans
• Attend people management training

In summary, you will have the opportunity to manage and perform penetration tests including web applications, mobile applications, networks and / or the enterprise infrastructure hosting them - on a variety of products contained within our Groups' portfolio, and mentor an international team in the same. 

Acting in an advisory capacity, you will QA and sign off on commercial grade reports which will be provided to our product and engineering teams for their remediation. 

In return, you will be offered every opportunity to further develop and hone your abilities through various training platforms. 

Qualifications

What would make me a good candidate?

We are looking for people who want to make a difference in Security, and welcome applications from those early in their career.

Required Qualifications:

• Experience: 5+ years’ experience working in security operations and testing in a global, diverse technology organisation.
• Reverse engineering malware, data obfuscators, or ciphers 
• Source code review for control flow and security flaws 
• Strong knowledge of tools (Burp Pro, Nessus, Nmap, Metasploit, Core Impact, Cobalt Strike, Airmon-ng) used for wireless, web application, and network security testing. 
• Thorough understanding of network protocols, data on the wire, and covert channels 
• Mastery of Unix/Linux/Mac/Windows operating systems, including bash and PowerShell 

Desired Qualifications

• Dev/Sec/Ops e.g., CDP / CDE
• Web application penetration testing e.g., eWPT / eWPTX / OSWE
• Platform penetration testing e.g., eCPPT / OSCP / OSEP
• Red team / purple team e.g., CRTO / CRTP

Personal Characteristics:

• Demonstrates strong analytical skills and the ability to manage stakeholder relationships in a complex, global business environment
• Mentality of “Making Life Simple”, by focusing on elegantly simple solutions, resisting unnecessary complexity
• Highly organised and detail oriented.  Able to think ahead, and effectively communicate information to stakeholders via written and verbal channels
• Ability to identify and escalate issues
• Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and strategic thinking skills
• Able to execute against ambitious timelines
• Able to work effectively across multiple time zone with colleagues based around the world; able to work flexible hours outside of a typical workday to accommodate time zones
• Demonstrated commitment to maintaining engaged teams and driving a culture of inclusion and innovation

Note: we support our people with training, education and hands-on experience in the certifications and qualifications we need.

At Xplor, we believe that the best innovation and ideas happen at the intersection of differences - people of different cultures, generations, disciplines, and lived experiences. So even if you think you don’t quite tick all the boxes, we still encourage you to apply.

Additional Information

Joining Xplor’s Central Technology (CT) team

There are over 600 Xplorers in our CT team that work as one team across the world. You'll get the chance to engage through Communities of Interest in Technologies (CIT), our Architectural Advisory Board or work on DOOR (Develop Only Once and Reuse).

Being a technology company selling SaaS-based software solutions, you can see your work clearly in the success of the business. You'll be a strategic enabler via world-class capabilities fostering product development and innovation.

Some of the other perks and benefits: *include additional benefits provided in your region* 

• 12 weeks Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary carer 
• #GiveBackDays/Commitment to social impact – 3 extra days off to volunteer and give back to your local community 
• Ongoing dedication to Diversity & Inclusion initiatives such as D&I Council, Global Mentorship Program 
• Access to free mental health support 
• Flexible working arrangements  

Ready to apply? 

To start your application, please submit your resume and we’ll be in touch as soon as we can. Please include the word "moonshot" at the top of your message to the Hiring Manager so that we know you took the time to read our job ad.  

We understand that diverse candidates have diverse needs. We welcome you to inform us of any additional needs related to completing your job application or participating in the interview process, via talent@xplortechnologies.com. 

More about us 

Xplor Technologies is a global platform integrating SaaS solutions, embedded payments, and Commerce Accelerating Technologies to help businesses succeed. Xplor provides enterprise-grade SaaS solutions for businesses in “everyday life” verticals: Childcare & Education; Fitness & Wellbeing, Field Services and Personal Services – and a global cloud-based payment processing platform.

Xplor Technologies serves over 78,000 customers that processed over $36 billion in payments, operating across 20 markets in 2022. 

Good to know

To learn more about us and our products, please visit www.xplortechnologies.com/nz/careers. 

We also invite you to check out our Candidate FAQs for more information about our recruitment process https://www.xplortechnologies.com/us/recruitment-faqs.

Xplor is dedicated to attracting, retaining and developing our people regardless of gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, disability and age. Applications are encouraged from all sectors of the community and we particularly encourage speakers of Te Reo Māori or Pasifika languages to apply.

We are a 2023 Circle Back Initiative Employer – we commit to respond to every applicant.