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Cyber Threat Response Analyst | Adversary OperationsMacquarie Group · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Cyber Threat Response Analyst | Adversary Operations

🗓️ Posted 2026-08-14 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary Not shared 📊 Market A$8,000–A$12,000/mo

About the Company

We are a global financial services group operating in 30 markets with 57 years of unbroken profitability. At Macquarie, you're empowered to shape a career that is fulfilling and creates value.

About the Job

In this role, you will be responsible for performing hypothesis driven threat hunting, where you will combine behavioral threat intelligence, controls-based research, and defensive cyber expertise to identify improvements to Macquarie's overall cybersecurity posture. You will conduct proactive, intelligence-driven threat hunting across Macquarie's global environment, using attacker TTPs, behavioral analytics, and large-scale telemetry (EDR, SIEM, TIP) to identify previously undetected threats. You will perform threat modeling, execute structured hypothesis driven hunts, uncover detective and preventative control gaps, and translate findings into actionable improvements in collaboration with our Security Operations and Detection Engineering teams. This role will require a continuous learning mindset and strong technical fundamentals, including security operations expertise, utilization of AI skills, adversarial techniques, and the operational application of frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK and MITRE ATLAS.

Role & Responsibilities

  • ● Perform hypothesis driven threat hunting by combining behavioral threat intelligence, controls-based research, and defensive cyber expertise to identify improvements to Macquarie's overall cybersecurity posture.
  • ● Conduct proactive, intelligence-driven threat hunting across Macquarie's global environment, using attacker TTPs, behavioral analytics, and large-scale telemetry to identify previously undetected threats.
  • ● Perform threat modeling, execute structured hypothesis driven hunts, uncover detective and preventative control gaps, and translate findings into actionable improvements in collaboration with our Security Operations and Detection Engineering teams.

Requirements

Experience

  • ● Experience in aggregate log analysis and with an Endpoint Detection and Response platform.
  • ● Minimum of 4 years of related security or technology experience in enterprise environments with a focus on threat hunting, security operations, or pen testing.

Skills

  • ● Ability to translate technical findings into actionable insights and communicate those to technical and non-technical stakeholders, with a focus on detail-oriented delivery.
  • ● Offensive security/adversarial mindset and knowledge of threat actor TTP's.
  • ● Experience threat hunting in an enterprise infrastructure, including Windows/Linux systems, Active Directory, cloud platforms, and identity systems.

Benefits

  • ● 1 wellbeing leave day per year.
  • ● Up to 5 additional service bonus leave days per year.
  • ● Up to 20 weeks' paid parental leave for primary caregivers along with 12 days of transition leave upon return to work, and 6 weeks' paid leave for non-primary caregivers.
  • ● 2 days of paid volunteer leave and donation matching.
  • ● Up to 12 months' gender affirmation leave, including 6 weeks' paid leave.
  • ● Access to Employee Assistance Program and wellbeing benefits including skin and health checks, and flu vaccinations.
  • ● Access to a wide range of salary packaging options.
  • ● Access to a wide range of learning and development opportunities, including reimbursement for professional membership or subscription.
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  • ● Hybrid and flexible working arrangements, dependent on role.
  • ● Reimbursement for work from home equipment.