CyberCX - Security Analyst

Accenture PLC; City of Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Parental leave (18 weeks)

Career breaks

Career development

Global opportunities

Family Inclusive Workplace

Flexible work arrangements

Diversity & Inclusion recognition

Job summary

Accenture in Melbourne is seeking a Security Analyst to join our Managed Security Services team, supporting enterprise environments across monitoring, investigation and threat hunting.

You’ll work with Senior Analysts and Technical Leads on complex investigations, gaining exposure to a broad range of technologies and customer challenges. This hands-on role offers growth in detections, automation and security leadership.

Qualifications

• Hands-on security operations experience in SOC/MSSP/MDR.
• Experience performing security alert investigations.
• Proficient with SIEM platforms (Microsoft Sentinel or Splunk).
• Exposure to EDR/XDR platforms such as Defender, CrowdStrike or Cortex XDR.
• Understanding of incident response and security investigations.
• Experience analyzing logs across multiple data sources.
• Familiarity with MITRE ATT&CK.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and investigate security alerts across enterprise environments.
• Analyze security events using SIEM platforms.
• Investigate activity across identity, cloud, endpoint and network telemetry.
• Support incident response including scoping, containment and escalation.
• Work with Defender, CrowdStrike and Cortex XDR.
• Tune detections to reduce false positives and alert noise.
• Participate in threat hunting and use cases development.
• Assist with vulnerability management findings and prioritisation.
• Communicate findings clearly to customers and internal stakeholders.
• Contribute to automation and broader SOC capability development.
• Collaborate with Senior Analysts and Technical Leads on escalations.
• Participate in rotating on-call roster for after-hours escalations.

Skills

SOC experience

Security incident investigation

SIEM (Microsoft Sentinel)

Splunk

EDR/XDR (Defender/CrowdStrike/Cortex X

Azure / Entra ID / Cloud security

Incident response methodologies

Log analysis / correlation

Threat hunting

MITRE ATT&CK knowledge

Communication skills

Vulnerability management (Tenable/Qual

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk

Microsoft Defender

CrowdStrike

Cortex XDR

Tenable

Qualys

Azure

Entra ID

Job description

The work we do matters

CyberCX, part of Accenture, protects and defends our customers and communities by providing the most comprehensive range of cyber security professional services in the region.

About Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud and security. Find out more about us at www.accenture.com.

About the role

We’re looking for a Security Analyst to join our Managed Security Services team in Melbourne, supporting a portfolio of enterprise customer environments across security monitoring, incident investigation, detection improvement and threat hunting.

This is a hands‑on security operations role suited to someone with practical SOC or security operations experience who wants to continue building their capability across a variety of customer environments.

You’ll work alongside experienced Senior Analysts and Technical Leads, gaining exposure to complex investigations, customer‑specific security challenges and a broad range of technologies.

What you’ll be doing

• Monitor and investigate security alerts across enterprise customer environments
• Analyse security events using SIEM platforms such as Microsoft Sentinel and Splunk
• Investigate suspicious activity across identity, cloud, endpoint and network telemetry
• Support incident response activities including investigation, scoping, containment and escalation
• Work with technologies including Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike and Cortex XDR
• Tune existing detections and help reduce false positives and alert noise
• Assist with the development of new detections and customer‑specific security use cases
• Participate in threat hunting activities based on threat intelligence, customer concerns or identified indicators
• Identify gaps in logging, detections and security visibility
• Support vulnerability management activities, including reviewing and prioritising findings
• Communicate security findings and recommendations clearly to customers and internal stakeholders
• Contribute to automation, process improvement and broader SOC capability development
• Work closely with Senior Analysts and Technical Leads on complex investigations and escalations
• Participate in the team’s rotating on‑call roster for after‑hours escalations

What you’ll bring

• Practical experience working in a SOC, MSSP, MDR or security operations environment
• Hands‑on experience investigating security alerts and incidents
• Experience with a SIEM such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk or a comparable platform
• Exposure to EDR/XDR platforms such as Microsoft Defender, CrowdStrike or Cortex XDR
• Understanding of common identity and account compromise scenarios
• Exposure to Microsoft Azure, Entra ID or broader cloud security environments
• An understanding of incident response and security investigation methodologies
• Experience analysing logs and correlating activity across multiple data sources
• Exposure to detection tuning, detection engineering or threat hunting
• A good understanding of common attacker behaviours and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
• The ability to look beyond simply closing an alert and understand why it triggered, what happened, what may be affected and what action should be taken next
• The ability to connect technical findings to customer risk and communicate recommendations clearly
• Curiosity, sound judgement and a willingness to challenge assumptions and investigate beyond the obvious
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Experience with vulnerability management platforms such as Tenable or Qualys would be advantageous but is not essential.

Benefits of working at Accenture:

• 18 weeks paid parental leave
• Long & short‑term career break opportunities
• Structured career development program
• Local and international career opportunities.
• Certified as a Family Inclusive Workplace
• Flexible Work Arrangements - centered around Accenture’s Truly Human ethos and our commitment to supporting the health and wellbeing of our people.
• We are proud to be in the top 3 of last year’s Diversity & Inclusion Index!

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