Security Information And Event Management Tester (Au Citizen With Security Clearance)

Everi Pty; Canberra; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Learning and development opportunities

Health and wellness programs

Career growth

Job summary

Accenture is seeking a SIEM Tester to validate and assure SIEM platforms and security monitoring use cases. Responsibilities include testing log ingestion, alerts, dashboards, and reporting across Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, QRadar, or Elastic Security.

The role involves developing test plans, validating detection rules, performing regression and acceptance testing, and simulating cyber attack scenarios to verify coverage. Collaboration with security engineers is essential.

Qualifications

• Experience testing SIEM platforms and validation of detection logic.
• Strong understanding of cybersecurity concepts including SOC, incident detection and response, threat hunting, and MITRE ATT&CK.
• Ability to document defects and collaborate with engineers to resolve issues.
• Experience developing and executing test plans, cases, and scripts for SIEM solutions.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts for SIEM platforms.
• Validate log collection, parsing, normalization, and enrichment from various security and infrastructure sources.
• Test security use cases, detection rules, correlation searches, and alerting mechanisms.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing of SIEM solutions.
• Validate dashboards, reports, and threat-hunting queries.
• Simulate cyber attack scenarios and verify detection coverage and alert generation.
• Identify, document, and track defects through to resolution.
• Work with security engineers and developers to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Support deployment and release testing activities.

Skills

SIEM testing

Test planning

Defect tracking

Tools

Microsoft Sentinel

Splunk Enterprise Security

IBM QRadar

Elastic Security

Job description

We are seeking a SIEM Tester to support the validation and assurance of Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) platforms, security monitoring use cases, and threat detection capabilities. The successful candidate will be responsible for testing security detection rules, log ingestion pipelines, alerts, dashboards, and reporting functionality across SIEM technologies such as Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, IBM QRadar, or Elastic Security.

Job Description

• Develop and execute test plans, test cases, and test scripts for SIEM platforms.
• Validate log collection, parsing, normalization, and enrichment from various security and infrastructure sources.
• Test security use cases, detection rules, correlation searches, and alerting mechanisms.
• Perform functional, integration, regression, and user acceptance testing of SIEM solutions.
• Validate dashboards, reports, and threat-hunting queries.
• Simulate cyber attack scenarios and verify detection coverage and alert generation.
• Identify, document, and track defects through to resolution.
• Work with security engineers and developers to troubleshoot and resolve issues.
• Support deployment and release testing activities.

About the Employer

Join Accenture a leading global consulting firm that is at the forefront of innovation, helping businesses unlock their full potential through cutting-edge technology and data-driven strategies. With a strong presence in over 50 countries and a focus on empowering businesses across industries, we deliver tailored solutions that drive growth, enhance efficiency, and foster digital transformation. Our team thrives on collaboration, innovation, and a passion for solving complex challenges with data and technology., Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world's leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services-creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world's leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities., At Accenture, our intention is to foster a culture and a workplace in which all of our people feel a sense of belonging and are respected and empowered to do their best work.

As part of our talent strategy, we hire and develop people who have different backgrounds, different perspectives and different lived experiences. These differences ensure that we have and attract the cognitive diversity to deliver a variety of perspectives, observations and insights which are essential to drive the innovation needed to reinvent, and we hold our leaders accountable for ensuring we have the most innovative and talented people in our industry.

About the Candidate

Experience testing SIEM platforms such as:

• Microsoft Sentinel
• Splunk Enterprise Security
• IBM QRadar
• Elastic Security

Understanding of cybersecurity concepts, including:

• Security Operations Centre (SOC)
• Incident Detection and Response
• Threat Hunting
• Vulnerability Management
• MITRE ATT&CK Framework

Security Clearance

• Australian Citizenship required.
• NV1, or NV2 Security Clearance preferred

Work Environment

We offer a dynamic, inclusive, and collaborative work environment that values your growth and well-being. As a part of our team, you will enjoy:

• Competitive Salary Package: Attractive remuneration that rewards your expertise.
• Flexible Work Arrangements: Options for remote work, hybrid models, and a strong work-life balance.
• Learning and Development: Access to world-class training programs, certifications, and mentorship opportunities to advance your skills.
• Career Growth: Defined career pathways with opportunities to work on impactful projects for global clients.
• Health and Wellness: Comprehensive health insurance, wellness programs, and mental health support.
• Paid Time Off: Generous leave policies, including parental leave and additional paid holidays.
• Diversity and Inclusion: A commitment to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where everyone feels valued and empowered.

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia:

At Accenture, we recognize that our people are multi-dimensional, and we create a work environment where all people feel like they can bring their authentic selves to work, every day.

Our unwavering commitment to inclusion and diversity unleashes innovation and creates a culture where everyone feels they have equal opportunity. Our range of progressive policies support flexibility in 'where', 'when' and 'how' our people work to ensure that Accenture is an organisation where you can strive for more, achieve great things and maintain the balance and wellbeing you need.