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About the Role

This opportunity is ideal for someone with around 18 months to 4 years' experience in a SOC or cyber security environment who has hands-on experience with Splunk log onboarding, use case development, detection engineering and security monitoring. You'll play a key role in onboarding and normalising log sources, building and tuning detections, investigating alerts, and supporting incident triage and response activities across customer environments. We're looking for someone who understands how security data flows into a SIEM, can work through detection logic, and enjoys improving visibility and security outcomes through well-designed use cases and analytics.

Responsibilities

Monitoring, triaging, investigating, and responding to security alerts and incidents within our Security Operations Centre (SOC)
Onboarding and integrating new log sources into Splunk, including writing and tuning data inputs, parsing configurations, field extractions, and validating data quality
Developing, refining, and optimising Splunk searches, dashboards, alerts, and detection logic to improve threat detection capability
Investigating security events, identifying patterns, determining severity, and escalating incidents in line with established playbooks and procedures
Contributing to the continuous improvement and uplift of SOC processes, runbooks, and detection logic
Collaborating with internal cloud, network, endpoint, and engineering teams to improve log coverage and security monitoring across environments
Keeping up with the evolving threat landscape and bringing practical ideas to improve the team’s capability

Requirements

Must be an Australian citizen to be eligible to obtain a security clearance or ideally already hold NV1 security clearance
18 months to 4 years of hands-on SOC experience, including practical experience onboarding, validating, and tuning log sources in Splunk
Strong working knowledge of common attack techniques, threat indicators, and the MITRE ATT&CK framework, with the ability to apply this knowledge during investigations
Experience working with security technologies such as firewalls, IDS/IPS, endpoint detection tools, cloud security platforms, and related monitoring tools
Confident analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to assess complex security events and make sound escalation decisions
Clear written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain incidents, risks, and findings to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Skills

Splunk log onboarding
Use case development
Detection engineering
Security monitoring
Splunk
Threat monitoring
Incident response
SIEM
MITRE ATT&CK framework
Firewalls
IDS/IPS
Endpoint detection tools
Cloud security platforms

Location

Canberra on-site

Work Type

On-site
Full-time

Experience Level

18 months to 4 years

Education Level

Degree in Cyber Security, Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field

About the Company

We’re growing, not slowing, here at Macquarie Technology Group because we’re passionate about doing things differently. We want to challenge the industry and look for better ways of doing things. As a team, Macquarie Government are hardworking, results and success focused. We also take the time to celebrate our success and make sure our people are doing work that makes a difference. We believe that collaboration & team connection is key for success.