Principal Consultant - SecOps Modernisation

CyberCX; Brisbane; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

18 weeks paid parental leave

Career development program

Flexible work arrangements

Diversity & Inclusion recognition

Job summary

CyberCX, part of Accenture, is seeking an experienced SOC delivery professional in APAC to lead end-to-end engagements from discovery to delivery. You will run maturity assessments, design detection rules, and manage log pipelines while coordinating stakeholders and milestones across the APAC region.

You’ll mentor Senior Analysts and drive best-practice delivery methodologies, including data pipeline deployments across Bindplane and other parsers for non-standard logs.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years in SOC operations or related security engineering roles.
• Delivery-focused or senior practitioner experience preferred.
• Hands-on with SIEM/SOAR design and tuning.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end SOC maturity assessments and create remediation roadmaps.
• Own detection engineering delivery and reusable content.
• Manage log ingestion, data quality, and retention policies.
• Run SIEM/SOAR migrations end-to-end using Modernisation Factory methods.
• Direct and mentor analysts and coordinate stakeholder communications.
• Lead data pipeline deployments across multiple platforms.

Skills

SOC operations

Detection engineering

SOAR

SIEM

Stakeholder management

Cloud telemetry

Security certifications

Tools

Google Chronicle

Splunk

Microsoft Sentinel

QRadar

Bindplane

Job description

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

This role sits within our APAC SecOps Modernisation team, delivering the hands-on technical work behind our customers' Agentic SOC and AI-driven security transformation.

As the primary delivery professional between Senior Analyst and Senior Manager level, you'll own customer engagements end-to-end - running SOC maturity assessments, leading detection engineering, managing log optimisation programmes, and driving SIEM/SOAR migrations to completion.

It's a technically hands-on role: you'll be designing detection rules and reviewing log pipelines one day and managing customer stakeholders and milestone delivery the next. We're looking for someone with a proven SOC engineering background, consulting maturity, and the ability to translate technical delivery into clear business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end SOC maturity assessments - discovery workshops, benchmarking against MITRE ATT&CK/NIST CSF/CIS Controls, and prioritised remediation roadmaps for technical and executive audiences
• Own detection engineering delivery, from gap analysis and threat-informed detection design through to rule tuning and reusable content for the APAC practice
• Manage log ingestion and data quality programmes, including source audits, pipeline deployments (e.g. Bindplane), and compliance-aligned retention and cost policies
• Run SIEM/SOAR migration engagements end-to-end using Accenture's Modernisation Factory methodology, from future-state design through build and ongoing optimisation
• Act as primary delivery contact for customer engagements, managing stakeholders, escalations, and milestone reporting
• Direct and mentor Senior Analysts, quality-assuring their work and contributing to the practice's delivery methodologies and playbooks
• Lead data pipeline deployments across multiple platforms including Bindplane, and onboarding of custom parsers for non-standard log sources

Skills & Experience

• 5-8 years in SOC operations, security engineering, or detection engineering, including 2-3 years in a delivery-focused or senior practitioner role
• Hands-on experience designing and tuning detection rules in atleast one SIEM — Google SecOps / Chronicle, Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, CrowdStrike Next-Gen SIEM, or QRadar
• Hands-on SOAR experience - playbook design, alert triage and enrichment, case management, and automation logic
• Proven ability to run security engagements end-to-end - from structured assessment and scoping through to findings delivery, implementation handoff, and SIEM/SOAR migration
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills - facilitating customer workshops, translating technical findings into executive-ready reports, and handling milestone tracking and escalations
• Understanding of a broad range of security telemetry, such as cloud: AWS CloudTrail, Azure Monitor, GCP Audit Logs, etc.; endpoint: Windows Event Logging and Syslog etc.
• SecOps platform certifications: Google Cloud Security, Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect, Microsoft SC-200

Benefits of working at CyberCX, Part of 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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