Security Platform Engineer

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

The work we do matters 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 Join our Managed Security Engineering team in a hands on Security Engineering role supporting the backend technologies used by our Security Operations teams. You will have the opportunity to work across a range of customer environments, helping keep core security platforms stable, available, patched and operating effectively. Build deeper engineering capability across platforms such as Splunk, Microsoft Sentinel, Tenable and LogicMonitor, with support from experienced senior engineers and technical leadership. This role would suit someone with some SIEM, security operations or infrastructure experience who wants to move further into platform engineering, automation and backend security tooling. You do not need to be an expert across every platform from day one, curiosity, strong troubleshooting fundamentals and a willingness to learn are important.

What you’ll be doing

• 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, unavailable or no longer ingesting data correctly.
• Assist with onboarding and maintaining log sources across customer environments.
• Work closely with SOC analysts and security engineers to ensure the platforms they rely on are healthy and providing the right 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, health checks and repetitive operational tasks.
• Develop capability across additional monitoring and security platforms as the team’s responsibilities continue to grow.

Skills & Experience

• 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 areas such as 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.
• An interest in scripting and automation; experience with Python, PowerShell or APIs would be beneficial but is not essential.
• Experience with Tenable or LogicMonitor would be advantageous.
• Strong willingness to learn and develop across multiple security technologies.
• Comfortable working across multiple customer environments and collaborating with SOC, engineering and infrastructure teams

Please note that due to the nature of this role, it is a mandatory requirement that all applicants are Australian citizens with the ability to hold an Australian Government Security Clearance.

Benefits of working at 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!

All our consulting professionals receive comprehensive training covering business acumen, technical and professional skills development. You’ll also have opportunities to hone your functional skills and expertise in an area of specialization. We offer a variety of formal and informal training programs at every level to help you acquire and build specialized skills faster. Learning takes place both on the job and through formal training conducted online, in the classroom, or in collaboration with teammates. The sheer variety of work we do, and the experience it offers, provide an unbeatable platform from which to build a career. Accenture is a an EEO and affirmative action employee of females/minorities/veterans/individuals with disabilities. Equal Employment Opportunity Statement for Australia: At Accenture, we recognise 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