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Senior Security Engineer

TheDriveGroup ยท Sydney, New South Wales

Type
Full-time
Posted
8 days ago

Overview

Your incident response experience from policing gives you a foundation, but this role demands deep technical engineering skills.

About this role

๐Ÿšจ Hiring | Senior Security Engineer | Sydney ๐Ÿšจ

I'm looking for a Senior Security Engineer to join an established internal cyber security team within a large enterprise environment.

This is a hands-on role focused on building, improving and automating security capabilities rather than simply operating existing tooling.

You'll be working across

๐Ÿ”น Splunk โ€“ detection, monitoring and use-case development

๐Ÿ”น CrowdStrike โ€“ endpoint security and response

๐Ÿ”น Detection engineering & incident response

๐Ÿ”น Vulnerability, cloud and identity security

๐Ÿ”น Python / PowerShell automation

๐Ÿ”น Security engineering projects and technical uplift

Experience or a strong interest in AI is highly regarded, with the opportunity to explore how AI can automate security processes, reduce manual workloads and improve the team's overall capability.

Ideal for someone who wants to stay technically hands-on, solve interesting security problems and have genuine ownership of how an internal security environment evolves.

๐Ÿ“ Sydney/ Hybrid

๐Ÿข Internal enterprise environment

Interested? Drop me a message or email hayley@thedrivegroup.com.au

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Why this fits a police background

  • Incident command & response

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