About the Role:
This position is a key opportunity to leverage your technical expertise and strategic leadership skills in enhancing security monitoring capabilities. You will play a pivotal role in driving continuous improvement, providing guidance, and mentoring detection engineers across multiple teams and platforms.
The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with Splunk, strong background in automation and SOAR technologies, and demonstrated ability in security use case development and detection engineering.
In this role, you will balance hands-on work with strategic leadership, applying your technical skills within Telstra's SIEM solution to identify gaps in security logging and monitoring coverage. You will also engage with internal teams to provide expert guidance, advice, and support on security engineering practices.
As a senior technical lead, you will develop and drive security strategy aligned with business and operational goals, collaborate across cross-functional teams to deliver desired security outcomes, and lead and manage end-to-end technical projects.
Key Responsibilities:
* Serve as a technical lead across cybersecurity initiatives
* Apply technical skills within Telstra's SIEM solution to identify gaps in security logging and monitoring coverage
* Engage with internal teams to provide expert guidance, advice, and support on security engineering practices
* Develop and drive security strategy aligned with business and operational goals
* Collaborate across cross-functional teams to deliver desired security outcomes
* Lead and manage end-to-end technical projects
* Mentor, train, and support team members to build capability and foster growth
* Design and implement security use cases and detection engineering solutions
* Maintain and tune enterprise security tools to ensure optimal performance
* Leverage automation and SOAR platforms to streamline security operations
* Apply data engineering expertise to enhance threat detection and response capabilities
Requirements:
* 3+ years of hands-on experience with Splunk
* 3+ years of cybersecurity experience in enterprise environments
* Strong background in automation and SOAR technologies
* Proven experience with security tool tuning, maintenance, and optimization
* Expertise in data engineering within security contexts
* Demonstrated ability in security use case development and detection engineering
* Experience leading technical projects from concept to delivery
* Track record of mentoring and training others in technical domains
PREFERRED SKILLS:
* Proficiency in software engineering practices
* Experience building and maintaining cloud security infrastructure
* Familiarity with threat modelling and techniques to improve security posture
Seniority Level: Mid-Senior level
Employment Type: Full-time
Job Function: Information Technology