About the Company

This is a leadership role based in Carseldine where you will run and mature the Security Operations Centre, in this Public Sector Client. You'll lead a small team of analysts, blend hands-on incident response with people management, and work closely with suppliers and ICT teams to uplift 24x7 monitoring, detection and reporting.

About the Role

In this leadership role, you'll run day-to-day SOC operations and uplift capability.

• Oversee monitoring, detection and incident response to meet SLAs and KPIs
• Manage and govern the SOC managed service provider partner
• Establish and mature a 24x7x365 roster, roles and procedures
• Lead investigations, threat hunting and digital forensics activities
• Maintain and improve SOC standard operating procedures and reporting
• Partner with ICT teams and QGCSU on incidents, log sources and change impacts

About You

You bring proven SOC leadership with strong technical depth.

• Experience leading SOC teams and mentoring junior analysts
• Hands-on with SIEM, SOAR, EDR and log source onboarding
• Skilled in incident response, threat hunting and forensic analysis
• Background managing MSPs and holding vendors to SLA and KPI outcomes
• Able to design staffing models for 24x7 operations and on-call
• Clear communicator with stakeholder reporting at executive level
• Full working rights and experience working within public sector preferred.

The Benefits

• Initial 12-month contract with scope for 2x 12 month extensions
• Flexible hybrid working, with 2 days per week in office

How to Apply

Please apply with current resume in Microsoft Word format only (.doc or .docx). If you would like to have a confidential discussion, please contact Nina Magill on [email protected], quoting reference JN -102025-41632. Want to know more about Davidson? Visit us at www.davidsonwp.com