Launch Recruitment are working exclusively with a large organisation to fill a new role within their Threat and Detection team. This exciting opportunity is for someone that enjoys the world of threat and detection and enjoys thinking about the who, why and how. Someone that can think outside the box and enjoys coming up with new processes and ideas. Alongside this the role will require mentoring junior staff, automating capabilities (using Python) and dealing with a variety of stakeholders and leader within the business.

Location: Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide or Brisbane
Working arrangements: 3 days in the office (Tues and Wed anchor days)
competitive salary, plus bonus and benefits

This requires the successful candidate to identify, track and proactively mitigating threats through activities such as:

• Utilising a deep understanding of the local and global threat landscape to identify new and emerging threat activity, proposing mitigations and countermeasures.
• Leveraging a mixture of sources to track the tactics, techniques and procedures of our adversaries and how they evolve.
• Engaging in threat modelling, adversarial simulation, and attack surface assessments to explore potential attack paths.
• Ensuring that intelligence products provide stakeholders with insights which are contextualised and actionable.
• Influence the development of new threat and attack response procedures to maximize the benefit to Optus (including the impact on Optus systems and operations).
• Build new capabilities, tools and processes to support the Cyber Defence program.

Requirements

• 5+ years of relevant experience in cyber security defensive or offensive functions
• Deep understanding of malware families/evolution, indicators (pyramid of pain), TTPs ( tactics, techniques, procedures) and tooling used by cyber adversaries.
• Expert knowledge of cyber threat landscape - (state / geopolitical, cybercrime, hacktivism, insider risks, etc.).
• Demonstrable experience with the intelligence lifecycle and industry frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK, the diamond model
• Proven subject matter expertise in relevant areas including threat intelligence, detection engineering, incident management, malware analysis, and forensics.
• Strong understanding of python, automation and the creation of custom tooling.
• Use of offensive security techniques and tooling (penetration testing, red team, vulnerability research).
• In depth knowledge of common cyber defence tool stacks.

If you are interested in this exciting, new created role, please do click apply today!