Cyber Defense Manager - Cloud Security & Incident Response

Sekuro; Australia; On-site; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Sekuro is seeking an experienced Cyber Defence Manager to lead our Managed Security Services team across Australia, Asia, and the UK. The role is hands-on and requires guiding a team of practitioners to design and deploy robust cloud security solutions for enterprise clients.

You will own resource planning, threat hunting, vulnerability management, incident response, and client communications to ensure outcomes meet SLAs and safety targets.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading and developing high-performing cyber defence teams in an operational environment.
• Strong practical background across threat hunting, vulnerability management, and incident response service delivery.
• Experience overseeing Purple Teaming and adversarial emulation engagements, including governance and quality control.
• Proven ability to provide senior technical escalation support during high-severity incidents.
• Strong capability in building and maintaining client stakeholder relationships, including executive-level engagement.
• Experience delivering services to SLAs and contractual obligations, with a focus on measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated ability to establish quality assurance practices and improve consistency of client deliverables.
• Proven track record of driving continuous improvement across people, process, and tooling to uplift capability.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop the L2 Cyber Defence team through coaching, performance management, and career planning
• Manage team resourcing, rostering, and on-call to meet client coverage and delivery needs
• Oversee proactive threat hunting, including approval of hypotheses aligned to current threat intelligence
• Ensure threat hunting outputs are documented, communicated to clients, and escalated appropriately
• Oversee end-to-end vulnerability management, including scanning schedules, prioritisation, and remediation tracking
• Ensure vulnerability reporting is accurate, contextualised, and drives remediation outcomes with clients
• Maintain operational oversight of incident response engagements to meet SLAs and response frameworks
• Act as the senior escalation point for major incidents and manage client communications through to resolution
• Ensure post-incident reviews are completed and lessons learned are embedded into playbooks and procedures
• Lead delivery of Purple Team exercises aligned to MITRE ATT&CK, driving measurable detection and response uplift
• Oversee intelligence-led adversarial emulation engagements aligned to frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK and TIBER-AU
• Maintain service quality and continuous improvement across all service outputs, metrics, tooling, and processes

Skills

Cyber defence leadership

Threat hunting

Vulnerability management

Incident response

Executive communication

Client engagement

Quality assurance

Continuous improvement

Job description

Sekuro is seeking an experienced Cyber Defence Manager to lead our Managed Security Services team across Australia, Asia, and the UK. The role is hands-on and requires guiding a team of practitioners to design and deploy robust cloud security solutions for enterprise clients.

You will own resource planning, threat hunting, vulnerability management, incident response, and client communications to ensure outcomes meet SLAs and safety targets.