Cloud Security Analyst - SOC & Threat Detection

Adecco Australia Group; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 95,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Adecco Australia Group is seeking a B5 Cloud Security Analyst to protect complex cloud environments across AWS and Azure. You will work in a SOC-focused team handling incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and cloud security.

The role emphasizes investigation of threats, security event analysis, and hands-on cloud security technologies in a large enterprise. The ideal candidate has 2–5 years in cyber security/SOC, with Splunk experience and strong cloud security

Qualifications

• 2-5 years' experience in Cyber Security, SOC or related field.
• Experience using Splunk for security monitoring and investigations.
• Experience securing and monitoring AWS/Azure cloud environments, and incident response.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and investigate security events across AWS, Azure, and other cloud environments.
• Analyse, triage, and respond to cloud security alerts; escalate threats and incidents as needed.
• Utilise Splunk and Azure Log Analytics to identify suspicious activity and investigate events.
• Detect, assess and report cloud vulnerabilities and security risks.
• Tune and optimise security monitoring rules and alerts to reduce false positives.
• Monitor emerging threats targeting cloud platforms and jailbreak attempts.
• Collaborate with incident response, threat intel, vulnerability management, and security engineering teams.
• Maintain operational security documentation and improve security processes.
• Stay informed of latest cyber threats and cloud security best practices.
• Participate in on-call and weekend support rotations.

Skills

SOC experience

Splunk

Cloud security

Incident response

Threat intelligence

On-call rotations

Education

Degree in Cyber Security, Information Systems, Computer Science

Tools

Splunk

Azure Log Analytics

Terraform

Ansible

Puppet

Job description

Adecco Australia Group is seeking a B5 Cloud Security Analyst to protect complex cloud environments across AWS and Azure. You will work in a SOC-focused team handling incident response, threat intelligence, vulnerability management, and cloud security.

The role emphasizes investigation of threats, security event analysis, and hands-on cloud security technologies in a large enterprise. The ideal candidate has 2–5 years in cyber security/SOC, with Splunk experience and strong cloud security