What is the role 

Full time, Monday–Friday, with hybrid options available.

This role is open for candidates based in Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle, and Brisbane.

The Solutions Specialist, Cybersecurity is responsible for the continuity of New Era’s Cyber Security services and solutions. It provides escalation support, solution design and operational oversight, and senior technical expertise for project delivery.

The role works closely with the Solutions and Service Delivery teams to meet SLAs, maintain service standards, and act as the regional Cyber Security champion, driving awareness, guidance, and compliance.

Other key responsibilities include but may not be limited to following:

• Act as the Cyber Security champion, driving awareness, monitoring, and training.
• Design, review, and support secure solutions in collaboration with Solutions Group, Pre Sales and engineering teams.
• Ensure compliance with cybersecurity frameworks (ISO 27001, Essential Eight, CIS, NIST) and support audits and certifications.
• Lead security incident response, threat hunting, vulnerability assessments, and root cause analysis to meet SLAs.
• Serve as senior technical escalation for design, operations, projects, and APAC/client support, including after-hours as required.
• Provide mentorship to engineers and contribute to pre-sales, client security strategy, and risk assessment.
• Develop and maintain technical designs, procedures, documentation, and drive automation and continuous improvement.
• Maintain strong technical currency, manage logging and incident tasks, and accurately track daily activities.

Who we are looking for 

Successful candidate must possess:

• 5+ years’ enterprise cyber security experience
• Must have at least one major cloud security certification (Azure, AWS, or GCP)
• Cyber Security certification desirable e.g. CISM, CRISC
• Must have experience with Australian government frameworks like Essential 8 and other cyber security frameworks (SMB1001, NIST etc.)
• Experience with leading vendors (Palo Alto, Fortinet, Microsoft)
• Exposure to solutions architecture and pre‑sales activities is desirable
• Experience working in a Cyber Security team with strong networking and hands‑on infrastructure support, including installs and remote troubleshooting
• Experience with Cisco IOS/FortiOS firewalls, routing, and VPNs, plus Microsoft & Linux OS, Office 365, Azure AD, and Active Directory
• Experience supporting VMware/Hyper‑V environments, backup solutions (e.g. Veeam), and Bash or PowerShell scripting
• Strong communication skills, interpersonal skills, team‑oriented, client‑focused, and able to work under pressure
• Ability to solve problems and think both logically and laterally
• Strong willingness to learn and pass on knowledge

What we offer

• A friendly team environment with a strong technical support network
• Broad range of options for training and developing your IT skills
• Opportunity to work with the IT industry's latest technologies
• Internal career growth for high performers and IT super-stars
• Cost price on products from our suppliers
• Lunches and snacks provided (Brisbane and Newcastle only)
• Comprehensive Employer Assistance Program
• Gym membership – Newcastle office only
• Referral bonus

The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.

Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.  

Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies.

Overview

We're looking to hire for our Data side of our AI team at Speechify. This role is responsible for all aspects of data collection to support our model training operations. We are able to build high-quality datasets at petabyte-scale and low cost through a tight integration of infrastructure, engineering, and research work. We are looking for a skilled Software Engineer to join us.

What You’ll Do

• Be scrappy to find new sources of audio data and bring it into our ingestion pipeline
• Operate and extend the cloud infrastructure for our ingestion pipeline, currently running on GCP and managed with Terraform.
• Collaborate closely with our Scientists to shift the cost/throughput/quality frontier, delivering richer data at bigger scale and lower cost to power our next-generation models.
• Collaborate with others on the AI Team and Speechify Leadership to craft the AI Team’s dataset roadmap to power Speechify’s next-generation consumer and enterprise products.

An Ideal Candidate Should Have

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5+ years of industry experience in software development.
• Proficiency with bash/Python scripting in Linux environments
• Proficiency in Docker and Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and professional experience with at least one major Cloud Provider (we use GCP)
• Experience with web crawlers, large-scale data processing workflows is a plus
• Ability to handle multiple tasks and adapt to changing priorities.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

What we offer

• A fast-growing environment where you can help shape the company and product.
• An entrepreneurial-minded team that supports risk, intuition, and hustle.
• A hands-off management approach so you can focus and do your best work.
• An opportunity to make a big impact in a transformative industry.
• Competitive salaries, a friendly and laid-back atmosphere, and a commitment to building a great asynchronous culture.
• Opportunity to work on a life-changing product that millions of people use.
• Build products that directly impact and support people with learning differences like dyslexia, ADD, low vision, concussions, autism, and more.
• Work in one of the fastest-growing sectors of tech, the intersection of artificial intelligence and audio.

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Speechify is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. 

Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

This job description is intended to convey information essential to understanding the scope of the job and the general nature and level of work performed by job holders within this job. However, this job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of qualifications, skills, efforts, duties, responsibilities or working conditions associated with the position. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.