Job Title: Lead Cybersecurity Analyst
Are you ready for the challenge of defending a vast and complex environment? As the Lead Cybersecurity Analyst, you'll manage our hybrid Cybersecurity Operations Centre, ensuring swift and thorough threat detection, response, and escalation.
Your Key Responsibilities:
* Lead Operational Excellence: Oversee day-to-day CSOC operations, ensuring thorough and timely execution of all detection, response, and escalation processes.
* Drive Process Improvement: Identify and implement enhancements to detection and response playbooks, leveraging your expertise to optimise security procedures.
* Manage Critical Incidents: Rapidly assess, handle, and escalate critical cybersecurity issues, ensuring prompt resolution and minimising potential impacts.
* Mentor and Develop Talent: Guide and train CSOC analysts, fostering a culture of continuous learning and cross-skilling to enhance team capabilities.
* Stakeholder Engagement: Communicate effectively with internal and external stakeholders, representing the CSOC with authority and professionalism.
You May Be a Great Fit If:
* You are a highly technical cybersecurity professional with strong leadership skills, exceptional organisational abilities, and the capacity to balance multiple priorities whilst driving operational excellence and fostering team development.
* Possess extensive experience in SIEM, EDR, NDR, and other security tooling.
* Have a proven track record of leading and mentoring cybersecurity teams.
* Demonstrate excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
* Excel at stakeholder management and cross-team collaboration.
* Be adept at analysing complex security events and correlating data from multiple sources.
* Thrive in fast-paced environments, handling critical incidents with urgency and precision.
About Us:
We take pride in our people, who all contribute to our mission to benefit society through the transformative impact of education and research. Discover more via our website and stay connected with our stories and people on LinkedIn.
What We Offer:
* Supportive flexible work arrangements underpinned by our commitment to inclusion and well-being.
* Progressive, considerate leave provisions to empower your work-life balance.
* Salary packaging and access to a range of discounted services including Bupa health insurance.
* Health and well-being services including a leading Employee Assistance Program.
* Comprehensive career development and training, plus a 25% discount on UniMelb graduate courses for your immediate family members.
Cybersecurity Team:
From microscopes and gaming PCs to petabytes of research storage, we protect it all—leveraging best-of-breed tooling, threat intelligence, and a diverse technology stack to detect and respond to cyber threats with speed and precision.