Platform Security Engineer - SIEM & Automation

Accenture Global; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks paid parental leave

Flexible Work Arrangements

Family Inclusive Workplace

Job summary

Accenture’s CyberCX team in Australia offers a hands-on Security Engineering role focused on backing security platforms used by SOC and security operations teams. You’ll help keep log ingestion, forwarders, collectors and integrations healthy while patching and maintaining systems across Windows, Linux and cloud environments.

You’ll work with Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Tenable and LogicMonitor, with guidance from senior engineers.

Qualifications

• Some hands-on experience with Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel or another SIEM platform.
• Exposure to security engineering, SOC operations, platform support, systems administration or infrastructure engineering.
• Understanding of log ingestion, forwarders, collectors, data onboarding or integrations.
• Good troubleshooting skills across applications, infrastructure or security platforms.
• Familiarity with Windows and/or Linux environments.
• Exposure to patching, upgrades, change management or maintaining production systems.
• Interest in scripting and automation; Python/PowerShell/APIs helpful.

Responsibilities

• Support and maintain backend security platforms used by SOC and security operations teams.
• Troubleshoot issues across log ingestion, forwarders, collectors, integrations and platform availability.
• Perform security platform patching, upgrades and routine maintenance activities.
• Support customer incidents where SIEM or security tooling is degraded or not ingesting data correctly.
• Assist with onboarding and maintaining log sources across customer environments.
• Work closely with SOC analysts and security engineers to ensure platforms are healthy and providing data.
• Complete scheduled changes and support ongoing service improvement activities.
• Help maintain platform health across Windows, Linux and cloud-connected environments.
• Contribute to scripting and automation initiatives, including reporting and health checks.

Skills

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

SIEM

Troubleshooting

Windows

Linux

Scripting

Python

PowerShell

APIs

Tenable

LogicMonitor

Tools

Tenable

LogicMonitor

Job description

Accenture’s CyberCX team in Australia offers a hands-on Security Engineering role focused on backing security platforms used by SOC and security operations teams. You’ll help keep log ingestion, forwarders, collectors and integrations healthy while patching and maintaining systems across Windows, Linux and cloud environments.

You’ll work with Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Tenable and LogicMonitor, with guidance from senior engineers.