
Cyber Security Engineer
Employee First
Posted 27 days ago
The Role:
Our Client are a Financial services business based in Sydney CBD who are embarking on a number of exciting new IT projects and require a Cyber Security Engineer to join the team. The Cyber Security Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining security measures to protect the organisation's endpoints, networks and systems. They play a critical role in safeguarding sensitive data from cyber threats and ensuring the overall security posture of the organisation.
Key Responsibilities:
- Centralize and fine tune logs from all systems into a Log Analytics Workspace (Sentinel)
- Monitor and manage security policies, incidents, events and reports
- Perform testing to identify vulnerabilities in networks, applications, devices and systems
- Perform threat hunting using behavioural analytics and anomaly detection
- Maintain dashboards and reporting for security metrics and KPIs
- Develop and maintain playbooks for common incident types and automate responses using SOAR
- Ensure SSO, Conditional Access and MFA implementations are aligned to standards
- Implementing access controls and enforcing least privilege principles
- Provisioning and deprovisioning user accounts across systems and applications and automating identity lifecycle events (joiners, movers and leavers) including collaboration with application owners to integrate IAM controls.
- Implementing and enforcing the use of application security testing tools
- Penetration testing of applications, conducting code reviews and enforcing secure coding standards
- Install, configure, and maintain security devices such as firewalls and intrusion detection systems
- Maintaining security tools and ensure security testing is integrated into CI/CD pipelines
- Apply security baselines and hardening standards (e.g. CIS)
- Ensure physical and cloud infrastructure aligns with regulatory and internal security standards
- Verify security controls implemented in network devices such as Merak switches and WAPs
Key Skills:
- Strong knowledge of across the broad range of cyber security considerations as well as networking and software knowledge.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills to identify and address security issues.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills to explain security measures and incidents to non-technical stakeholders.
- Over 5 years of proven experience in cyber security role, with experience in Microsoft technologies (Defender suite, Azure Security Center, and Sentinel SIEM), Cloud security & data logging (Azure & AWS), Incident response, Cryptography, Network and System security.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field is preferred as well as any relevant certifications.
Our Client is keen to interview suitable candidates next week so apply today to start the conversation
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