Security Operations Team Lead

• Permanent Opportunity
• Hybrid working arrangements
• Melbourne CBD

A market leader, and growing enterprise is seeking a skilled and experienced Security Operations Team Lead to join its cybersecurity team. This is a hands on technical leadership role where the successful candidate will be responsible for coordinating day to day cybersecurity activities and providing guidance to a dedicated security operations and engineering team.

In this critical role, the Team Lead will work closely with the Cyber Security Manager to ensure the secure operation of systems, lead the technical response to threats, and continuously improve the organisation's cyber resilience.

Key Responsibilities

• Coordinates and oversees the daily operations of the security team, including incident response, threat monitoring, and ticket resolution.
• Manages and optimizes core security tools such as SIEM, EDR, CASB, DLP, and vulnerability scanners.
• Acts as the primary escalation point for complex technical security incidents, leading cross functional teams in investigation and remediation.
• Provides day to day leadership and mentorship to the security operations team.
• Leads post incident reviews and root cause analysis to drive continuous improvement of the security architecture.

Required Skills and Experience

• A minimum of 5+ years of hands on experience in cybersecurity, with a focus on security operations or engineering.
• Proven experience operating within a mature, enterprise level security function.
• Demonstrated experience in a leadership capacity, such as a team lead, senior engineer, or mentoring role.
• Proven technical expertise with a variety of enterprise security tools and platforms.
• Strong knowledge of securing cloud environments, particularly Microsoft Azure and Office 365.
• A solid understanding of modern attack techniques and frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK.
• A firm grasp of networking, operating systems, cloud infrastructure, and identity systems.

Desirable Qualifications/ Certification: CISSP, GCIA, GCIH, or OSCP are considered a plus.
Eligibility: Candidates must have full working rights in Australia and be a Citizen or Permanent Resident.

If this opportunity aligns with your expertise and aspirations, please click apply! Feel free to reach out for a confidential discussion to Nataly Pinzon at nataly.pinzon(at)aurec.com, should you have any questions.