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Senior Threat Detection Analyst

SEEK North Sydney, New South Wales Hybrid senior full-time

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Description

At SEEK, we serve a noble purpose: to help people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and to help organisations succeed.

You will join a versatile, highly collaborative, and multi-disciplinary team with a wide variety of security skills and responsibilities, working to address security threats across the company.

Your primary responsibilities will be cyber threat intelligence and insider risk management, with the opportunity to work on a range of other activities aligned to your interests, including threat hunting, detection engineering, purple teaming, and other strategic priorities.

Responsibilities:

  • Lead detailed investigations and research into internal and external security threats, performing threat assessments and providing timely briefs to leadership on cyber threat trends, TTPs, and emerging threats.
  • Triage and investigate insider risk scenarios and communicate findings to senior leadership.
  • Identify, collect, and analyse threat intelligence from OSINT, proprietary sources, and industry groups, including verifying sources and conducting research with strict operational security.
  • Maintain and update intelligence collection requirements (ICRs) based on stakeholder needs.
  • Monitor, triage, and escalate security alerts, fine-tuning detections for accuracy, and collaborate with incident response and security operations teams during incidents.
  • Support threat hunting activities and provide recommendations to uplift controls.
  • Advise on geopolitical matters and international travel security risks.
  • Support forensic imaging to aid investigations.
  • Develop and report on CTI metrics and identify automation opportunities to enhance SEEK's proactive intelligence and threat detection capabilities, including tools, processes, and procedures.
  • Establish relationships with industry peers for information sharing and promote a security culture across the organisation, assisting with other security activities as required.
  • Mentor security peers, ensuring team growth and effectiveness.

Qualifications:

  • Minimum 5+ years of experience in cyber security, intelligence, or national security, with a Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, national security, intelligence, or a related field.
  • Excellent problem-solving, analytic, and investigative skills relating to threat detection, insider threat, and security intelligence investigations, with the ability to perform hands-on technical analysis and log review across technologies including endpoint detection, email filtering, SIEM, and more.
  • Extensive knowledge of MITRE ATT&CK, advanced persistent threats, and their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs).
  • Experience executing incident response activities in a methodical and meticulous manner, with a fundamental understanding of threat detection and threat hunting principles.
  • Strong understanding of the geopolitical landscape and associated security risks, with the ability to advise on international travel security.
  • Comfortable with at least one scripting and/or programming language.
  • Demonstrated leadership abilities, including the ability to mentor peers and clearly articulate difficult technical concepts to senior executives.
  • Strong stakeholder engagement skills, including clear verbal and written communication, and proven expertise in developing cyber security strategies, policies, and processes.
  • A curious mindset with a passion for solving problems and continuous learning, capable of working both independently and collaboratively.

Perks and benefits:

  • Tailored career development planning
  • Support of flexible working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role
  • Annual Performance Bonus Plan
  • Frequent events including sports days, year-end party, hackathon, and trivia
  • Casual dress every day

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