Lead Cyber Security Analyst: Incident Response

Talenza; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Talenza in Sydney is seeking a Lead Cyber Security Analyst to protect enterprise systems and guide the hybrid Security Operations Centre. The role combines hands-on incident response leadership with strategic cyber defence planning.

You will mentor analysts, drive threat-hunting initiatives, develop detection content and playbooks, and coordinate with MSSP and security teams to improve threat visibility.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience leading cyber incident response in large enterprises.
• Hands-on ability to investigate, contain, eradicate and recover from incidents.
• Proven threat hunting, threat detection and security monitoring capabilities.
• Advanced experience with SIEM, EDR/XDR and security analytics platforms.
• Deep knowledge of modern threats and MITRE ATT&CK framework.
• Experience developing detection content and incident response playbooks.

Responsibilities

• Lead the technical investigation, containment, eradication and recovery of cyber security incidents using SIEM, EDR, SOAR and other security monitoring tools.
• Act as the primary technical escalation point for complex security events and threats.
• Provide technical oversight and quality assurance of MSSP investigations, escalations and monitoring activities.
• Conduct proactive threat hunting activities using threat intelligence and frameworks such as MITRE ATT&CK
• Develop and enhance detection rules, use cases and monitoring capabilities to improve threat visibility.
• Refine incident response playbooks, procedures and SOAR-based automation workflows.
• Support security exercises, tabletop simulations and incident response readiness activities.
• Mentor security analysts and provide technical guidance across cyber operations functions.
• Monitor emerging threats, attack techniques and industry trends to continually improve cyber defence capability.

Skills

Incident Response

Threat Hunting

Threat Detection

SIEM/EDR/XDR

MITRE ATT&CK

Security Analytics

Tools

SIEM

Job description

Talenza in Sydney is seeking a Lead Cyber Security Analyst to protect enterprise systems and guide the hybrid Security Operations Centre. The role combines hands-on incident response leadership with strategic cyber defence planning.

You will mentor analysts, drive threat-hunting initiatives, develop detection content and playbooks, and coordinate with MSSP and security teams to improve threat visibility.