Work with cutting edge AI technology, making the world a safer and more secure place. DroneShield (ASX:DRO) offers an opportunity to solve some of world’s most challenging technical problems in the rapidly growing counter-drone sector.   

Our customers operate in some of the most challenging and high-stakes environments in the world, including military organisations, government agencies, airports, critical infrastructure operators, and law enforcement. Protecting airspace in these settings requires technology that performs under pressure and teams that understand what’s at stake. At DroneShield, employees work at the leading edge of counter-drone innovation, helping to address real-world security challenges as drone threats continue to evolve globally. 

With one of the largest listed defence company market capitalisations in Australia, now part of the ASX200 index, DroneShield is experiencing a period of hypergrowth. Revenue has surged from A$57 million in 2024 to over A$217 million in 2025, representing growth of more than 400% year-on-year, with record profitability and cashflow. The total addressable global market for counter-drone is assessed at approximately $100 billion, and is currently at the nascent stage with much of the growth still to come, with DroneShield well positioned as a global market leader, and the only public listed pure-play business in this sector.   

The company has grown from 11 employees in 2017 to over 450 staff globally today, and is on track to reach around 550 by the end of 2026. This expansion includes investment of over A$50 million annually in R&D, a global pipeline exceeding A$2.5 billion, and continuous scaling of production capacity to meet accelerating demand.  

The role is based at DroneShield’s central Sydney headquarters. Overseas on-the-ground presence includes Virginia (USA), Netherlands, Denmark, Mexico and Dubai, as well as distributors in over 70 countries worldwide. 

About the role

DroneShield is seeking a Corporate Security Engineer to join the Security team in Sydney, NSW. This is a mid-level role with genuine opportunities for growth and progression for the right candidate.

The Security team is a nimble team responsible for protecting DroneShield's assets and users. Our adversaries are sophisticated and use state-of-the-art tooling. To protect DroneShield, we need to focus on the biggest risks, eliminate threats, focus on automation to scale our efforts and continually increase the cost for the attackers.

Key responsibilities for this role include supporting and improving our existing corporate security solutions, deploying security controls on endpoints, and partnering with Detection & Response to build detections. This role will also contribute to build controls across office networks, data centres and remote access for our internal infrastructure.

Corporate Security should be viewed as a partnership with IT and Detection & Response, with each team enabling each other to be more effective. IT builds the foundational tools for asset management and internal services; Corporate Security automates deployment of security controls and enables telemetry so that Detection & Response can create detections and playbooks to respond to incidents effectively.

The ideal candidate will be building their strategic understanding of IT and Detection & Response and will be an eager, capable contributor to both teams. This role requires a foundation in programming and automation, with an eagerness to expand those skills. An interest in how LLMs can be leveraged to improve security operations is a strong plus.

Strong communication skills and being a hands-on engineer are a must have.

Responsibilities, Duties and Expectations 

• Automate and deploy security controls on our corporate infrastructure
• Support and contribute to vulnerability management across our corporate infrastructure, with increasing ownership as experience grows
• Be up to update with vulnerabilities/CVEs and how to mitigate them
• Respond to security incidents involving corporate infrastructure
• Collect metrics, identify patterns and create actions based on them
• Contribute to and help execute the corporate security strategy under senior direction
• Support reporting on security metrics and contribute findings and recommendations to the team
• Manage concurrent tasks and contribute to cross-team problem solving

Qualifications, Experience and Skills 

• BS degree in Computer Science, Information Technology or similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
• Demonstrated experience working in IT with focus on security tooling
• On-the-tools engineering experience – must be hands-on
• Excellent communication skills to explain complex technical concepts.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Minimum 2–4 years’ experience in related roles. Roles could include:
• • IT Engineer
  • System Administrator
  • Security Engineer
• Knowledge of the following is essential:
• • Systems thinking focus on design solutions that improve the system
  • Experience managing MDM and MAM solutions
  • Experience with Secure Remote Access approaches
  • Reducing the attack surface through system hardening
  • Automation experience, writing scripts in Go or Python
  • Comfortable on the command line in a Linux first environment
  • Threat Modelling – focusing on the threat, controls and mitigations.
• Knowledge of the following is desirable:
• • Experience with Windows, MacOS and Linux
  • Experience with XDR
  • Ability to think creatively to identify potential security vulnerabilities.
  • Infrastructure as Code and experience with hybrid cloud environments
  • Have experimented on leveraging LLM for automation.
  • Systems thinking focus on design solutions that improve the system

Growth Path

This role is designed for someone who already brings a degree of autonomy and can take real ownership of initiatives. Working closely with the Senior Corporate Security Engineer, the right candidate will deepen their technical expertise and broaden their strategic thinking across the corporate security program. Progression will be recognised and rewarded as capability and contribution are demonstrated.

Note for recruitment agencies: We do not accept unsolicited candidates from external recruiters unless specifically instructed.