Platform Security Engineer: SIEM & Automation

CyberCX; City of Brisbane; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks parental leave

Structured career development program

Flexible work arrangements

Diversity & Inclusion initiatives

Job summary

CyberCX, part of Accenture, is seeking a hands-on Security Engineering professional to support backend platforms like Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel for our Security Operations teams in Australia. You will help keep core platforms healthy, patched and operating effectively, with opportunities to expand capabilities across monitoring tools.

You will work across diverse customer environments, collaborating with SOC analysts and engineers to ensure the right data is ingested and available.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel or another SIEM platform.
• Exposure to security engineering, SOC operations or platform support.
• Understanding of log ingestion, forwarders, data onboarding or integrations.
• Good troubleshooting across applications, infrastructure or security platforms; Windows/Linux familiarity.
• Experience with patching, upgrades or change management in production systems.
• Scripting/automation interest; Python/PowerShell/APIs helpful.
• Experience with Tenable or LogicMonitor is advantageous.
• Willingness to learn and develop across multiple security technologies.
• Comfortable working across multiple customer environments with SOC/engineering teams.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Splunk SIEM

Microsoft Sentinel

Troubleshooting

Automation scripting

Windows/Linux

Tools

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

Tenable

LogicMonitor

Job description

CyberCX, part of Accenture, is seeking a hands-on Security Engineering professional to support backend platforms like Splunk and Microsoft Sentinel for our Security Operations teams in Australia. You will help keep core platforms healthy, patched and operating effectively, with opportunities to expand capabilities across monitoring tools.

You will work across diverse customer environments, collaborating with SOC analysts and engineers to ensure the right data is ingested and available.