Senior Cyber Security EngineerTalenza · Sydney NSW
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Talenza

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Senior Cyber Security Engineer

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🗓️ Posted 2026-10-09 Sydney NSW Full-time Hybrid ICT
💰 Salary A$12,500–A$15,000/mo (A$150,000–A$180,000/yr) 📊 Market A$9,583–A$13,333/mo

About the Company

Digital, Technology and Business Transformation Talent Acquisition Specialists. Talenza is a full-service technology and business operations recruitment agency with extensive experience across both permanent and contract recruitment across a broad range of industry sectors. We pride ourselves on truly partnering with your business to understand your organisation, the industry in which you sit and the recruitment challenges you face. We only hire experienced consultants who have domain expertise across specialist areas such as Data Analytics and Digital, where organisations often struggle to source the best talent. - Executive Search - Project Appointments - PMO, Delivery etc - Transformation & Strategy - Business Intelligence & Information Management - Data - Analytics, Governance & Strategy - Infrastructure & DevOps - Software, Web and Mobile Development - Software QA / Testing - UX, UI & CX - PPC & SEO - CRM & ERP - Digital Marketing - AdTech - Cyber Security - Sales and Account Management Staffing and Recruiting Specialties: Permanent Recruitment, Contract Recruitment, Recruitment Process Outsourcing, Executive Search

Responsibilities

  • ● Senior Cyber Security Engineer
  • ● Working closely with SOC, Incident Response and Threat Intelligence teams, you will play a key role in improving security visibility and reducing cyber risk across the enterprise. Key Responsibilities
  • ● Design and develop threat detections across SIEM, EDR and XDR platforms.
  • ● Create detection use cases aligned to adversary TTPs and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
  • ● Conduct threat hunting activities to identify emerging threats and detection gaps.
  • ● Translate threat intelligence into actionable detection content.
  • ● Tune and optimise detection rules to improve accuracy and reduce false positives.
  • ● Partner with Incident Response teams to develop detections from real-world incidents.
  • ● Perform detection validation through attack simulation and testing activities.
  • ● Implement automation and SOAR capabilities to improve security operations efficiency.
  • ● Identify monitoring gaps and improve visibility across cloud, endpoint, identity and network environments.
  • ● Develop reporting and metrics to measure detection effectiveness and SOC maturity.
  • ● Required Experience
  • ● Strong experience in Detection Engineering, Security Operations or Security Analytics.
  • ● Hands-on experience with SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar or Elastic.
  • ● Strong understanding of MITRE ATT&CK and modern attack techniques.
  • ● Scripting experience using Python, PowerShell, KQL or similar technologies.
  • ● Strong analytical, investigative and problem-solving skills.