Large insurance group, who pride themselves on a human approach and putting their members first. They offer a friendly, dynamic, and flexible working environment and are dedicated to creating a work culture where their employees can flourish.
About the Role:
Join the Cyber Security Operations team in Sydney as a Cyber Threat Defence expert and help strengthen the security every day. In this role, you'll detect, assess, and counter global cyber threats. You’ll collaborate with teams to improve the defences, provide security insights, assess risks, and proactively hunt for threats. You’ll be key in tackling security challenges and reinforcing controls to protect against current and future cyber risks. Your goal: keep it safe by monitoring and analyzing daily threats.
Responsibilities:
- Proactively triage and respond to sophisticated cyber threats targeting global infrastructure, ensuring swift and effective protection across the business.
- Bring an offensive security mindset, leveraging knowledge of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to anticipate and counteract threat actors.
- Conduct in-depth vulnerability assessments and testing, identifying potential risks and collaborating with teams to drive timely remediation while staying informed of the latest cybersecurity trends and technologies.
- Leverage expertise in log analysis using tools like Splunk or other SIEM platforms to uncover critical insights and enhance security measures.
- Utilize hands-on experience with Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) platforms to monitor and defend endpoints against evolving threats.
- Lead incident response efforts with proven experience in containing and resolving security incidents.
- Develop comprehensive, data-driven reports and create automated monitoring and alerting systems to streamline threat detection and response.
- Collaborate closely with the cyber team daily to address and resolve security challenges, ensuring a unified approach to protecting the organization.
- Stay current on emerging security threats, vulnerabilities, and best practices to continuously improve security posture.
Skills and Experience:
- 6 + years of experience in Blue Teaming, Digital Forensics, Threat Hunting, Vulnerability management and incident response.
- Proven experience as a SOC Operator or similar role in information security
- Strong knowledge of incident response and vulnerability management
- Strong understanding of security controls and frameworks
- Technical understanding on Microsoft security solutions (SIEM, Defender, Azure), AWS, Vulnerability and patch management (Qualys, Tenable, MS vulnerability management, Intune etc.)
- Proven experience in Threat Intelligence (TI) analysis.
- Strong understanding on application security (Veracode scanning analysis), web security (WAF) and Penetration testing.
- Strong experience in cyber risk assessment
For a confidential discussion, please contact Pravin on Pravin.manandhar@peoplebank.com.au quoting reference 263868.