Security Operations Lead: SOC, IR & Cloud Security

Scyne Advisory; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Market leading Parental Leave

Flexible working

Additional leave

Smart device reimbursement

Wellness and Lifestyle benefits

Job summary

Scyne Advisory in Melbourne, Australia is seeking a Security Operations Lead to drive day-to-day cyber security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, and security monitoring across cloud, endpoints and data.

You will partner with the CISO and Technology teams to improve resilience, manage SOC/MSP providers, and embed practical security controls within development pipelines. This role demands hands-on leadership and clear business communication.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience leading security operations, incident response, SOC, vulnerability management or cyber defence activities.
• Experience using Microsoft security tools for alert triage, investigation, monitoring, reporting, and control improvement.
• Hands-on experience with DevSecOps practices, CI/CD security tooling, and application security testing.
• Experience improving operational processes, runbooks, playbooks, dashboards, service levels, or security reporting.
• Strong understanding of incident response, threat detection, vulnerability management, identity security, endpoint security, cloud security, and security monitoring.
• Experience managing SOC/MSP providers, including performance reviews, escalations, incident quality, remediation follow-up, and SLA accountability.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day operations of security (alert triage, incident containment, runbook maintenance) and manage the operating rhythm with SOC/MSP.
• Monitor key security controls across identity, endpoint, cloud, and networks; track high-risk vulnerabilities and drive remediation.
• Maintain the operational risk register, coordinate evidence for ISO 27001, audits, and assurance activities.
• Partner with Engineering and Technology to embed cloud, data, software and AI security controls in development and CI/CD.
• Deliver clear operational reporting to the CISO on security posture, incident trends, and third-party performance.
• Collaborate with Technology teams to embed security controls and lead cyber awareness initiatives.

Skills

Security operations

SOC management

Vulnerability management

CI/CD security

Incident response

Cloud security

Threat detection

Security reporting

Stakeholder communication

NIST/CIS/ISO27001

Tools

Microsoft security tools

DevSecOps tooling

CI/CD security tooling

Job description

Scyne Advisory in Melbourne, Australia is seeking a Security Operations Lead to drive day-to-day cyber security operations, incident response, vulnerability management, and security monitoring across cloud, endpoints and data.

You will partner with the CISO and Technology teams to improve resilience, manage SOC/MSP providers, and embed practical security controls within development pipelines. This role demands hands-on leadership and clear business communication.